What will death be like? - Printable Version

What will death be like? - Printable Version

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What will death be like? - Magical Realist - Jul 14, 2026

Think death less as some spirit or soul journeying elsewhere thru some psychedelic space and more as an ontological jump. Like when you've just watched a very involving movie in a theater and it ends and they turn the lights on. In a matter of seconds we are thrown from one world to another. It's like how we sometimes wake up from a really vivid dream and we suddenly don't know where we are for a few seconds. That's what I think death is like. Think when Dorothy opened the door of her storm-tossed house. We instantly leap from one state of consciousness to another. And bam..you're just there. One reality is over and another begins. What do you think it will be like?

RE: What will death be like? - confused2 - Jul 14, 2026

My expectation is .. going to sleep and not waking up.
What worries me is what leads up to the 'not waking up' .. being burnt, broken or having some horribly painful and/or embarrassing affliction. I'm a fan of the voluntary exit plan.

RE: What will death be like? - Magical Realist - Jul 15, 2026

I watched this movie last night about dying with dignity. I am definitely for it, particularly when your fate is degenerating to the point of being kept alive and breathing with a machine. This film made this all too real for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLXwu9EzJKc&t=139s

RE: What will death be like? - Magical Realist - Jul 17, 2026

J K Simmons talks about his near-death experience:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1020119590431472

RE: What will death be like? - C C - Jul 17, 2026

(Jul 14, 2026 08:45 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [...] What do you think it will be like?

It's long since been answered by the philosophers who compared what it was like to the blankness of before one was born. Or, setting aside the childhood amnesia of anything that happened before even age three or whatever, what it was like before a certain stage of fetal development.

"In 1690 famous empiricist John Locke’s famous work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding presented a theory of personal identity [...] Thus, he advocates that personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity ... More explicitly stated, a present person is identical to a past one only insofar as she or he remembers, or it is possible for her or him to remember herself or himself to thinking and acting in the past."

But even if the internal relationship via memory of being "so and so" at age one is absent, there are still environmental records forcing that personally forgotten identity upon one.

But when it comes to speculative transitions outside the physical evidence of this world, no external information is around as a safety net to verify that Phyllis Diller was once a salamander. So if no memory is replicated from an internal or private perspective, then things are similarly blank, and for all intents and purposes, there is no longer an identity linkage to whatever supposed former entity.

A Matrix scenario or older oneirocosm situation is all one could hope for, where we either return to a prior-in-rank identity that still retains memories of this one. Or some mystical storehouse consciousness of Buddhism beyond the six bardos that holds data about former lives. But obviously there's no access to that when alive, so it's not really of any use in terms of linkage with and knowledge of other identities.

RE: What will death be like? - Magical Realist - Jul 17, 2026