What happens to you after death?

People that don't believe in god what do you believe happens to you after you die?

well, no1, whatever you believe in happens happens, so theres more then 1 thing that happens. not sure what I would like. I know, turn into a vampire and live forever, myahahaha.

You never move again. You aren't able to speak, touch, see, or do anything. You completely leave the world and become one with the ground. At least, so I believe.

You are not you. You are a series of parts that come together at one time for a while which you CALL "you".

Are you your body? No. Its only a series of other parts; liver, spleen, heart, etc.

Are you your brain? No. If we cut your brain in half, would there be 2 of you?

Are you your thoughts, feelings, or ideas? No. They are always in flux, always changing.

Are you your actions? No. Once your action has been done, it is in the past. People may define you by your actions; ex - Hitler spending his time feeding starving children. But once the actions are done, they are done, and your next action can always be different.

So if you're not your body, brain, thoughts, ideas, memories, etc... then what are you? Electricity is often described as "not a thing, but an EVENT" - humans are more accurately described this way as well. At no 2 consecutive points in time are you EXACTLY the same.

Now, when you die, these "parts" stop existing at the same place at the same time. They do not stop existing completely. Just as an SMS exists on your phone - you type one out, then press "send". Where does the SMS go? Technically a copy of the message is still on your phone, but lets ignore that for a minute and suppose the SMS disappears completely anytime you send it. Its not gone forever - the parts that make up the SMS stopped existing at one place at one time, and began existing again somewhere else.

This is the cycle of life and death; the ebb and flow of reality that has no beginning or end. The parts that make us who we are have existed for an inexpressible length of time, and are much older than the universe itself. When you die, these parts stop existing where they are, as its only the body holding them together. They will eventually find a new body - whether as human, animal, demon, angel, hell, heaven, or where ever.

This is what happens when you die.

Now to address certain concerns about the Bible, and whether or not that version is what really happens when you die...

First, we must postulate that God is the embodiment of truth. This is our first premise, and if God does not embody truth, then the thing we are referring to is not God, but perhaps a separate entity. God = truth.

Second, we know that the truth makes sense. When all the facts are known, and when all the facts are true, they will always make sense. Think of this as a spiritual law of the universe. Its also why "God's ways" cannot be mysterious - if you KNOW the information, and the information is TRUE, it is not mysterious, and it always makes sense. If you do not know all the facts, or if you know all the facts but some are not true, only then would there be a mystery and things wouldn't make sense.

So God makes sense.

Now we're told by Catholics that by living for only 30 years on this earth and you "didn't do good enough" (for sake of simplicity lets exclude purgatory from the discussion), you could spend the rest of eternity burning in hell forever and ever.

This does not make sense.

We're told by protestants that you can feed the poor, cure diseases, solve the world's economic problems, end famine, never so much as step on an ant, and essentially take mankind into a golden era of enlightenment - you're still spending the rest of eternity burning in hell forever and ever if you dont believe a 2000 year old Jewish zombie who was his own father sacrified himself to himself so he could remove a mystic force created when a rib-woman ate an apple from a tree because of a talking snake.

This does not make sense.

That you are a group of "parts" existing at one point in space time, but liberated by the separation from your physical self so as to have new dimensions of movement which can result in the reassembly of those parts at a new point in space time...

Sorry, but... THAT MAKES SENSE!

Also, I studied comparative religion for several years. In case you haven't figured it out. :P

Ok, I'm done now. :PPP

uhh...you die.. and you stay dead, in my opinion. Sorry

You should visit the website http://www.av1611.org/hell.html and you can actually listen to people who are in hell this very minute and you can see for yourself what happens after death. Dr. Azzacove didn't belive in hell until he was drilling into the center of the earth with his team of scientists and heard the awful screaming and moaning coming from millions of souls in hell. Just go to the website and listen for yourself. It is a sound you will never forget. But you don't have to go there- you can chose Jesus Christ and live with him forever, which is the choice I have made.

I think your soul lives on and you endure peace from a better place.

or

you are reincarnated. I've heard of people remembering past lives.

reincarnation and or become spirit guids

if you are bad hell if you are good heaven simple as that unless you dont believe then probably nothing but who cares now enjoy life while you can when your time comes youll no but you know what sucks you cant tell anybody because your dead damn I wish you could