Death and Afterlife

im really confused.
im a christian, and i believe in god and jesus and heaven. but i doubt it a lot. its normal to doubt it, i know that. but i worry about it a lot. i believe there is no hell. well, there is, but not the sort of hell most people seem to think of. eg. fire and demons with pitchforks. but i believe hell is eternal life without god. its eternal life spent in your unhappiest moments. i believe heaven is with the angels and god and everything.
but yeah, it does bother me sometimes. and really gets me thinking. but thats what i believe

Death is an interesting topic as of late.....

Well, I realized last night that it might be nice to die, not that I want to. I don't fear death at all because I am a christian and I believe I am going to heaven. I love to think of Hell as a Dante-esque inferno, with each punishment specific to the sin. The only thing that frightens me about death is the concept of rotting away or being cremated, but I know that I really won't care once I'm dead.

My parents are Christian, so I go to church and all that, but I'm not sure what I believe... I'm the kind of person who needs physical proof...

The thing that scares me is that if there is no heaven, what is there?
Is death just like sleeping forever? Or is there something else beyond this life?

superhumangorilla:

My parents are Christian, so I go to church and all that, but I'm not sure what I believe... I'm the kind of person who needs physical proof...

The thing that scares me is that if there is no heaven, what is there?
Is death just like sleeping forever? Or is there something else beyond this life?

yeah. thats what scares me to. it freaks me out and makes me worry. *sigh* we'll have to wait and find out...

^^I'm so glad I'm not the only one!

I suppose, when it happens, we'll be ready for it.
And everyone else has to go through it, so at least we're not alone.

The word "death" scares me sometimes.

I'm a christian and all but sometimes I can doubt what life is really like after death because no one knows what's going to happen when you die until you do. There probably will be no proof as to what exactly happens when you die. just the Bible, theories, and you're opinion and what you youself believe what's going to happen when you die.

I believe in afterlife. I believe in heaven and hell and all of that but sometimes when i learn about different religions and beliefs i do get worried and confused because there are so many theories. Sometimes I kinda wonder about reincarnation and how when you die you are born again as someone or something different and you have no idea that you were someone else before you were born. And then sometimes i worry about when i die that nothing will happen and I'll just be dead and everything will be pitch black.

But whatever does happen after death i believe that you will have an afterlife either in hell or in heaven. Maybe even on Earth again depending on what you believe in because i can't seem to think that when you die there is nothing else to do. Kinda like sleeping forever underground. Who knows. Maybe heaven or hell is just an enternal sleep. A dream that lasts forever. but i don't know.

No one will know until their gone but i still believe that people go to heaven or hell in some form or another.

Well Im a christian, so I believe im going to heaven when I die. But im starting 2 doubt some of the things I believe..ya kno?

I'm not scared of death. I'm scared of dying. I like to believe that I won't die, using the sort of theory that every decisions creates a parallel universe, I like to think that each time I "die" there will be two universes, one where I'm still alive, the other where I'm dead. Of course that is absolute twaddle, I'm just being optimistic.

since about the age of six i've been scared of death. like what happens afterwards. all i know is that in chemistry we were taught that energy can not be created or destroyed, only changed into a different form. i like to think that when i die i'll be reincarnated. is that an afterlife, since you don't remember it?
i don't know. but at least it's something to believe in.

Death isnt something to fear everyone knows it has to happen to keep the natural order of things. People who are brought back arent always the same person they were when they died. Sometimes its for the best and sometimes its not.... Death comes in many forms but the most common is Emotionally. Emotionally dead is a form of not feeling anything but sadness and regert and anger and anything but happiness or love. When does it happen no one can tell only time and the tempress of fate do and when they come together they dance and when the music ends your life goes with it... So death is something to accept and move on.... Well really I have had so much loss it isnt funny but Im not the only one in this world..

I am not realy scared of death. I wonder how it would feel though, i wander if it would hurt at all. Would you know that you are about to die?

i keep changing my mind about what happens when you die. I think the spirit live on in some sort of form.

You know, I'm really glad that there is a board about this because maybe alot of people have the same thoughts as me. I find it very weird that when we die, well as Christians, we end our lives here on Earth but live our life for eternity in Heaven. But in a nut shell, I think the only way we will know what will really happen when we die is dying first. That's the only way we can truly find out what happens to our body, thoughts, and actions. On a positive note, even though I have a great fear of death, I can't wait to die because I can't wait to meet A7X, MCR, and Johnny Depp. That's about the only thing I'm looking foward to next to being in a place where there is no war, hatred, or judgement. After saying all this, does anyone else have almost the same beliefs as me?

i have an incredible fear of death even though i believe that there is an afterlife etc, but it's more the fear of not existing that scares me more, not being able to hug and talk with the people i love, the pain that i know my children are going to go through when they lose me, the horrible thought that my husband who i believe is my soulmate and i being separated if only one of us goes on to reincarnation...i just fear the whole thing...it's awful

i'm not really afraid of death, i'm afraid of dying before i'm ready to. not sure i'll ever be ready really, but yeah. i think that people fear being forgotten more then anything.

i do believe in the afterlife, but i dont know where i'll end up when i die, and that scares me a little, i dont want to wander as a lost spirit, but i would like to connect to my family after i die

There's this interesting part from a Terry Pratchett bok 'Reaper Man' which i really wanna share w u guys. An old lady who has a conversation with Death says (not exact quote) "It's not fair, is it? If people knew when they were going to die, they would lead better lives." Death replies "If people knew when they were going to die, they would not live at all."

just found it so meaningful.

I used to see heaven as like, a cloud city. But tahts changed, and I just see it as plain, and a little boring. Death has never really scared me. When my uncle died, I cried, out of shock mainly. I was glad he wasn't suffering, and he had gone somewhere.
And even if there isn't heaven, still doesn't worry me, as I'll be dead, too dead to care!!

I don't believe in hell, though. Like a firey furnace to torure evil souls. I believe God forgives us all, if we truly want it. Those who don't well, I suppose they're here, just we can't see them/feel them. Ghosts maybe? I have no idea.

^ well i dont believe hell is a torture firey place either. i believe hell comes from your own mind. for example, if you're one of those ppl who are deathly afraid of clowns, and i mean really afraid of them, not just saying you are, then your hell would have to do with that some how. something like that

and i believe heaven works the same way, whatever your paradise is in your mind, becomes you heaven when you die.if you've ever seen the movie What Dreams May Come with Robin Willams then you'll know what i'm talking about