According to you, what happens when you die?

You wake up outside the matrix.

im gonna die one day and if there's an afterlife, i'll deal with it then. if there isn't an afterlife, then i won't deal with it because i'll be dead.

The connections in my brain that made me me will fail and I will cease to exist, same as before I existed.

I'll be in the same place I was before I was born.

The ~40% of me that are Microbes are going to have a field day.

You become what you were before you were conceived.

Either of two things:

Nothing. However, I don't think most people quite grasp the meaning of that. Kind of how they think that before the big bang there was just empty space. No, empty space is not nothing. There's no empty space, there's no time, there's nothing. By definition it cannot be experienced. Experience simply ends. It's as if nothing ever happened. The universe could just as well have never existed.

The more optimistic theory is that consciousness is in a way immortal. You can only experience being, not not-being. It's kind of how when you go under general anesthesia and then wake up it's quite unlike sleeping. When you've slept you have the sense of time having passed in between. With general anesthesia this is not the case. One moment you feel sleepy and then you wake up in another room. From your subjective experience you never lost consciousness to begin with. Whose to say that something similar doesn't happen with death. Instead of experience ending it just moves elsewhere. It's a pretty difficult concept to explain but it's somewhat similar to the idea of quantum immortality.

When you die you simply wake up in the nearest universe where you didn’t die.

Death is an objective event. It never happens subjectively.

In everyone else’s experience, you die. Your body becomes a corpse and you are no longer there.

In your own experience, you don’t die. The gun doesn’t fire. The car crash never happens. You somehow walk away from the train derailment. Your cancer clears up.

Death exists for other people, never for the self.

Eventually, you become the only living human. You are eternal.

After millions of years, you accumulate enough power to create new people. You do this so you don’t have to be alone. You are now God.

My family will be very sad.

What I think or what I hope?

I think it will be just like before I was born. I will become nothing.

I hope that I'm wrong and I will be reunited with my loved ones.

Sounds like someone elses problem at that point.

Nothing.

I know that the people who love you will miss you.

I have an opinion on this, but it saps all the fun out of the discussion when the question is asked by someone who gets no enjoyment out of their life. I'd rather you get professional mental health than have a bunch of people on the Internet assure you that death will be the end of your suffering.

You don't experience anything, not even a sense of 'nothing'.

You're dead

I like to think it's this... Kurtzgesagt - The Egg

Here's a link to the original short story https://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

I've died. It's a permanent state of unconsciousness. No thoughts. No dreams. No life flashing before your eyes. Just nothing.

I think i'll just stop existing at some point. Maybe there'll be some pseudo visual sensations ('light') as I die but other than that I don't expect any kind of 'after life'.

Half of the time I look forward to my death, it doesn't scare me since I don't see the real point of my life

I think we shouldn't be scared of death but still try to enjoy our limited lifetime as much as we can. If you feel depressed continously, I can only advise you to seek help. Life shouldn't be like that. If you have friends or family that you trust, tell them how you feel. In case you don't, that's okay. You may reach out to professional organisations or helplines instead. :)

I believe it's very similar to falling asleep, and you may even tap into a dreamlike state of consciousness depending on your circumstances. Eventually, your self awareness stops and fades into nothingness. What you see if anything at all, and what your perception of time is or how self aware of the situation you are will depend a lot on the circumstances of the death and your individual make up, the same way not everyone dreams the same way or even remembers dreaming at all.

My conscience ends.

If the materialists are right, the atoms I'm made of end up reforming my conscience into another mortal coil as a matter of statistics.

If they're wrong and there's a spirit that's not bound to the material world, I end up living inside another hull that accepts consciousness. Repeatedly. Could be human, alien, or that of an animal.

If that happens, I want to live in a world that respects all consciousness.

Whatever it was like before you were born. You return to that, literally nothing to be afraid of

I'm pretty sure your bodily functions all shut down and then you're incapable of experiencing whatever happens to your cadaver. Some people might be a little sad about it for a while and then the same will happen to them.

Either nothing or everything.

Sweet, silent oblivion.

If I'm wrong I'm gonna go full on Karen on whatever jackass is in charge.

I think that it is exactly the same as before you were born.

I don't know what - if anything- comes after. But I do like the Buddhist analogy of death being like a wave falling back into the sea. The wave is gone but the matter and energy that constituted it survives and are eventually repurposed for the formation of another wave. Or a bird, or a tree, or some other part of the natural world.

"What happens when you die" - I assume you mean after you die (not during), and to your consciousness, your awareness rather than your body.

The same as before you came to be. Not like you fell asleep; you're gone.

From my perspective, the universe – including myself – ceases to exist.

From the perspective of the universe: entropy.

Whatever happens, I just hope it’s graceful and as painless for others as possible.

Darkness as your eyes close -> Probably some cool shit as your brain functions start shutting down -> literally nothing.

Wait… you all don’t know?

Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.

you become dead

My wife and I have discussed contingency plans for what to do if there's an afterlife. If one of us ends up in a good place and the other in a bad place, we're both determined to do whatever is necessary to meet in ideally a middle place or whichever place will take both of us otherwise. If we become spirits that walk the earth unseen by mortals, we'll meet in the desert where we had our wedding. If we are forced to reincarnate, we will attempt to bargain to reincarnate as the same species within a small enough geographical distance that we can likely meet again.

I think this is probably a dream. Who knows what's on the other side. Animals are really good at experiencing severe pain and forgetting about it. I wouldn't worry about that. Life is a joke, so laugh at it.

Your brain stops firing and you're gone. You don't exist anymore. Your body starts to rot.

There will persumably be a funeral, my remaining family and friends will grieve and divide my up my things, several of which I doubt they will ever really use.

I'll be dead and won't care.

This one's not going to sovngarde.

If my partner is still alive, then she would be very sad. Likewise my older siblings. God, I hope my parents aren't alive to see it - that would suck for them. My best bud would also be pretty torn up (we've lived within a few blocks of each other for most of the last three decades, and get together at least once a week). There's also an old ex who if they're still around, I can count on a great eulogy from them. Makes me wish I could stick around just to see that.

Unless it's a particularly horrible death, I don't think anyone would be dangerously sad. I'm insured to the hilt, so there should be enough to go around to cover expenses, including my partner's current level of comfort.

From my perspective, it's likely to be a big nothing (I would be very surprised otherwise). But I've never really put much stock in individual consciousness: sure I may be stuck to this one perspective because of how brains work, so it's the only consciousness I can truly know, but it's not the only one. The others (like other other people) will keep going after this one ends. The biggest changes are going to be in the social and legal dimensions of my former life.

But then what? I just stop existing and it’s like I fell asleep?

If you're asking about your cognitive state, it's like a process or event that ends. Like if you roll a ball down a hill and the ball stops bc it's at the bottom of the hill. The ball's still there but the process of the ball rolling is over.

what scares me is if my agony would be slow and painful.

To some people it's helpful if they read up on things like palliative care and hospice care. To other people it makes things worse to think about it, but personally I found it comforting to know that there are options and procedures to handle that.

Your corpse decomposes.

Nothing is nothing.

I get reborn in the world that i helped create ...

Nothing