What happens after we die.

[psychoangel691]

Only those who were active in 2009 will know the hilarity of the black taco

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i'll take your black jack taco and raise you a....

[Arch0wl]

when we die we go to Stepmania heaven

[Choofers]

speaking of stepmania

[Wayward Vagabond]

im going to go to taco bell today before work

[trumaestro]

Tacos are made from dead mexicans. That's where they go when they die.

[RNGRX]

I wish I was actually a part of the community in 2009.

[gold stinger]

part of the critical thinking:

when we die, our heart rate stops but access in the brain still remains for a bit of time until the brain itself lacks brain cells and blood cells to keep it running, making it possible for someone to be revived VIA defibrillator unit or CPR.

During death, most people explain that they see a white light and themselves moving towards it, so from my personal guess I would say this is a side effect of the brain moving into an Outer Body Experience state with the eyes still open due to brain access after the heart stops. In an OBE, (Outer Body Experience,) hovering, flying, and lightness is common. Also, the white light they are referring to could possibly be hospital lights zooming in on someone because the brain is lacking power to maintain animated images of surroundings during the moment of death.

Afterwards, I will assume the next 3-5 minute experience based on time (because it's hard to keep track of time while asleep,) will sync with about 15 minutes in real-time where brain cells die and blood does not get fed into the brain, so this stage of death could be linked to either very deep (and not to mention stupid,) sleep to full on coma. The lack of blood and oxygen being fed into the brain will cause IQ to drop immensely, until all systems would be shut off, and then will be considered as brain-dead. (The official Dead, dead, can't be brung back to life, dead.)

After being Brain-dead, there is practically nothing. Your cells that which make up your body begins to decompose by other animals or life, if you're burned into ashes, chances are there are parts scattered elsewhere, and other parts of your body will be used in others (if you optioned for organ donation upon death,) and that would be that. You would never be yourself anymore, because the you that makes YOU would decompose as well in theory. At most you could make up the majority of another being or animal, and may have memories or thoughts transferred, but you will never recognize yourself as yourself if you were ever to gain sentience or reincarnation, simply because your cells would be different, your DNA would be different, and there would be no possible way of identifying it.

And that last sentence is where people develop theories of how we could identify it by substituting cultures and religions into the mix. Not that they are wrong, but I don't see the proof in them. Although, they do give you something to live for...

[TheSaxRunner05]

After you die the atoms of your body are spread around the world and can end up anywhere.

In fact, it is likely that some atoms of Jesus' penis are still among some humans today.

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by gold stinger

part of the critical thinking:

Well, that was quite depressing

[gold stinger]

Originally Posted by TheSaxRunner05

After you die the atoms of your body are spread around the world and can end up anywhere.

In fact, it is likely that some atoms of Jesus' penis are still among some humans today.

this is true, but I find most of the debate of what happens to us after we die coincides with religions and faith, and the fear of death when it comes.

If it were true that a single faith or religion to be right, the idea of it in my death theory would be located right after or during the time of being brain-dead. If there is no religion or faith that exists, and it was all a way of us living with meaning until we find it has no meaning, then that part after being brain-dead will remain a nothingless void. Nothing. Zippo.
GODDAMN NOTHING. D:

You would lack the brain power for emotions to be scared. You would lack the brain power to know wtf is going on. You would lack the brain power to even know you died. You would lack the brain power to lack the brain power. To be scared of death is to be scared of nothing, quite literally.

[Frank Munoz]

i always thought death would be like when you sleep but don't dream(or most cases "don't remember your dream") just a voided dream. or is it?
I think a few studies concluded a hypothesis that you only remember a dream when you have awoken in the middle of it.

Which is kinda... weird.
If that's really the case then that means our own self-loving brains are capable of concealing things from us.

[LLaMaSaUceYup]

TL;DR (a few pages at least)
Does anyone even get into the topic of DMT? Surprised I did not see from what I read, seems sadly unknown to majority. Anyone read or watched "The Spirit Molecule?" Basically your brain releases this chemical sending you into a euphoric psychedelic state, whole vision gets filled with geometrical shapes, (universal crystalline matrix.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKOO-VB_yts

Terence McKenna states that he has experienced death. The mystery to me really is what happens after this state! Your body has a barrier which breaks down this molecule just as fast as it is created. This is why you are not always in this very intense state. Also release is more current when you are sleeping, especially in REM. Same release when you are born obviously, all relate. Well, will not go too much further although I could, definitely worth checking into. Mind Bogglin

[Pseudo Enigma]

protip: we're already dead. Now what?

[Reincarnate]

I saw that taco and died