What happens after death?

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@OP. From an atheist point of view, the void/nothingness/oblivion... whatever you want to call it, is not a place to be... not like sitting in a dark room for eternity... because to be is to experience; which would therefore be an afterlife. It's the absence of experience, which is what makes it so hard to get our heads around; we are trying to imagine what it's like not to be able to imagine... which is impossible. The only way we can talk about what it's 'like' is from an outside, third-person perspective... ie like before you were born or like being asleep when not dreaming... but we cannot talk about what it's like from a first-person, experiencing, point of view because that is a contradiction in terms, because it's the absence of experience; so there is nothing that it is 'like' to not experience.. it's an impossible task to imagine that.

For some reason, this helped me a lot. Thank you.

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I lied, after you die you start pining for the fjords.

Careful with that, they'll just nail you to a perch.

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You can take solace in the fact death will cure your fear of death!  As someone who also is very anti-dying, I don't think there's a way around it.  In your mind exists a future in which you exist.  Death takes away that future and replaces it with nothingness.  

To be fair, it isn't quite nothingness.  Anyone living two hundred years may have felt the same way about it and yet here we are putting the lie to that idea.  Look at us.  Life is going on and will again without us.  There is plenty to go around so enjoy the party.

I think that wallym meant that death takes away the future of the individual that dies. Not all life ever to exist.