After Death..

rileydog22 wrote: You go in a wooden box which is buried approximately 6 feet underground.

Edited by Chameleon - June 14 2007 at 19:27

9 Feet Underground and Halfway Between Heaven and Earth... are classic Richard Sinclair!

But yes, we die and that's it...

However... timor mortis conturbat me.

It does.

The obvious answer is "how could I know". That's the rational part of me talking.
However, the spiritual part of me is hoping that we continue living in one way or another, because otherwise it wouldn't make any difference how we treat other people, ourselves, animals and environment.
Therefore I wish that we all will face some kind of a Great Court where we get what we deserve, which is a very scary thought too, because neither of us who die as an adult are innocent. On the other hand, I have always thought that no one deserves to be cast down to hell either. But I want to believe in Justice.
Two major things have happened in my life quite recently. My grandmother died late last year and a few weeks ago I became a father for the first time in my life. Somehow I connected these two things in my mind in an intuitive way and I started to think that perhaps dying is a bit like being born: you enter the unknown, you think that something is coming to an end (I believe that it's shocking for a baby to born), but in fact it's only a new beginning. This opens an interesting thought that maybe life/eternity is a neverending cycle of being born and dying.
But, once again, how could I know?

Death is the end.

Geck0 wrote: We live and die and... yet... nothing, nothing at all.  That's it. Immortality (and thus Heaven) is scarier than mortality and death. Peter Hammill knows it too.

The concept of immortality sounds wonderful to me.

After Death is Post Death.

Snow Dog wrote: After Death is Post Death.   Or is it?   Death is after life.   So its Post Life?   Which is the same as Death!     Maybe the question should more logically be "Whats After Life"?   Answer...Death.

tardis wrote: Geck0 wrote: We live and die and... yet... nothing, nothing at all.  That's it. Immortality (and thus Heaven) is scarier than mortality and death. Peter Hammill knows it too. The concept of immortality sounds wonderful to me.

I thought it sounded wonderful, and then I started thinking about how boring immortality would be (provoked by Still Life, actually), and now I see that it sucks either way.

Komodo dragon wrote: DECOMPOSION ! 1.Death begins when the heart stops beating. Deprived of oxygen, a cascade of cellular death commences. It begins with brain cells and finishes with the skin cells. Death is therefore a process, rather than an event. 2.Many kinds of organisms live by feeding on dead bodies. In the process, their activities result in the decomposition of the body and the recycling of nutrients. The dominant groups of organisms involved in decomposition are bacteria, flies, beetles, mites and moths. Other animals, mainly parasitoid wasps, predatory beetles and predatory flies, feed on the animals that feed on the corpse. A dead body is therefore an ecosystem of its own, in which different fauna arrive and depart from the corpse at different times. http://www.deathonline.net/decomposition/

It's always good talking about stuff as if we have any concept of what that stuff is.