Believers of no afterlife... isn't it hard to cope with?

[Grinchilla]

That once someone you love dies... they're gone forever? Everything thing that was them will never exist again... and you'll never see them again.

But for some reason I don't feel like life is for nothing, do you? For some reason I don't quite believe that in the end, it doesn't matter what you did in your life.

[hugslut]

Thats what i believe. That we just get buried or whatever and we just cease to exist. It is kind of depressing.

[Quick_Sylver]

I suppose that's what I agree with, because what can we do if we're dead? Nothing. *shrug* it depends how I'm feeling. Either it's no life or another life. *sigh* more things to clutter my mind up with.

[Sage]

One should learn to not let things they have no control over bother them, and this goes whether you believe in an afterlife or not. Also, 'believers in no afterlife' is a silly term. There are those who believe something and those who do not. I suppose I'm a non-unicornist and a non-invisible turtleist too (even though I don't enjoy pulling particularly atheistic sentiments like those out of my ass).

[Whisper]

We are literally made of stardust
We would not exist if the stars themselves didn't eventually die
Without death you can't have life
They aren't separate entities so much as two sides of the same coin
a yin and a yang

So no I don't fear dying

[Grinchilla]

Deschain... I have no idea what you said after the first sentence, which I guess I agree with. :p

[INFERNO]

I don't find it hard to cope with because for loved ones who have died, I have memories of them, a picture or two, etc... . Physically they're no longer there and I do believe they simply go in the ground, unless you choose cremation or another form of burial. I find it actually easier to have it this way than believing they go to a heaven, get reincarnated or whatever else because there's no worrying about their suffering or what will happen to them. Also, in order for me to believe in the "after-life", I have to bring myself to actually believe in that belief, such as Christianity, which adds greater difficulty because I obviously don't believe. Lastly, I believe in the concept that you need death to have successful life and I find going to heaven, reincarnation, etc... somewhat tosses this out of balance because there'd be only life. I know though that death need to occur, and so this would bring yet another conflict for me.

[Sage]

Deschain... I have no idea what you said after the first sentence

I said:

Also, 'believers in no afterlife' is a silly term. There are those who believe something and those who do not. I suppose I'm a non-unicornist and a non-invisible turtleist too (even though I don't enjoy pulling particularly atheistic sentiments like those out of my ass).

Which was poking at the thread title and how the term "believers in no afterlife" is asinine.

[Kahn]

All I know is I want to be cremated and my ashes spread through out the Adirondack mountains (Upstate NY), at a place called still water. I used to go camping there every year. I miss it. Everyone would get they're own island and be able to stay there for up to a month. Its real camping, not RV style.

[deadpie]

Death doesn't bother me at all. I've had friends and family die, and it really hasen't bothered me. It's just nature. Everything dies at some point in life.

I do think life is pointless. Their is no point to the existence of any of us human beings on this earth, a tiny dot in a never ending universe. Even if you were to cure some disease, save the world, or be the president of something-It doesn't matter. You're still just an ant.

I've accepted the fact that when i die i won't have a conciousness or soul. It's not depressng at all to me-in a way, it sounds really peaceful. I don't know how to explain it.

[Bluearmy]

I believe it's that inability to cope that leads people to religions. The idea of just not existing anymore is very frightening to most people.

[Grey fox]

I'm a biologist my nature, there is no such thing as an "afterlife" we are simply recycled into the great food chain of life. This the energy contained within us is never destroyed and one day you could un-knowingly consume particles which were once in a relative or friend who died. In fact, most of you probably have.

So they are never truly "gone" in an atomic sense.

And for missing people, well yeah its a comforting thought, but that's what memories are for!

If there is an afterlife, then i'll change my view when I get there. If there isn't though, ah well!

[Camazotz]

For some, it probably is hard to think about. The fact that there may not be an afterlife only drives me to try to enjoy life. That's why I'm happier than most people, generally.

[Death]

To hard to cope with? Not at all, I simply believe that it's false, simple as that. The very thought of some afterlife which gets cluttered up with all the 'dead' people with an ever increasing population seems quite weird.

[Rutherford The Brave]

In my beliefs there is no place, for us to go. When we die, we take the form of something in nature. Do I believe in it? Not so much, but I'm not afraid of death. I'm due to die so why live my life always delaying the inevitable? Plus if there ever was heaven it would be hella crowded right about now.

[MacMilker]

wow this is depressing how can you not believe in an afterlife, or a god who will take care of you when you die...ouchies

[Rutherford The Brave]

wow this is depressing how can you not believe in an afterlife, or a god who will take care of you when you die...ouchies

It's a hard thing to believe in, most people feel this way because they called out for god and he never came. They just some how feel comfortable with dying and just dying.

[OneManArmy]

Hard to think about it, but it's something that every single living thing on earth has in common. You have to deal with it. So no I don't fear it, I've learned to accept it as a part of life. And no I don't believe in after life, if there was one well I'd be crowded. But I can't imagine life without my parents, and they're pretty old to, my dads 62, and my moms 59. So I have no idea what I'm gonna do when they're too old to care for me. Fuck this worries me too much.

[Kahn]

It is infact sad... Like I said in my last post I don't believe in an afterlife, but for some reason I just do. I mean, if you put thought into it there is no purpose for us if there is no afterlife... I remember me and two of my brothers were about 5,6,8. We started talking about death and afterlife (Odd?). One of us started to cry scared that when my Mom or Dad died we would never see them again. Well what was I supposed to say? I was 6 and had no experience with this stuff and at the time we were religious. I can't imagine life without them and with no afterlife...

Some of the posts are true though. Why would someone believe in something like this? Hope? They would live a happy life thinking they would go to an afterlife, and who knows? We have no proof? If we do please, educate me. But they couldn't be let down because they are dead so they would've lived a happy life. Not always but most.

The reason I want to be cremated is because I hold onto the hope that if I am my spirit will stay with my ashes and maybe I will be stuck here... It's silly, but it is for reassurance.

Sorry for the rant.

[Jean Poutine]

I'm scared of my mom dying because without her I'd be nearly paralysed. She does all the people stuff for me. We're really close too and saying it'd be a bummer not to have her anymore is an understatement.

I sometimes cry at night and crawl in her bed to sleep next to her when I think about it.

Yes, I'm 19.

Me dying? Not scared of it in the least. Only reason I'm still here is because I don't want to make my mother sad.

And also because I am awesome at what I do. Namely French and throwing people on their backs.

[Nerdsaver]

Yah i believe that and its hella depressing. I guess you just have to do what you can to avoid thinking about it :0

[Zephyr]

Death and taxes... the only inevitables.
I don't cope with it, I accept it.
I don't need the belief of an afterlife to feel comfortable about dying.

We're born,
We live,
We die,
We decompose.
Circle of life.