Has anyone here pondered on what is there after death? I bet you have. Every time i think about just taking a gun to my head and pulling the trigger (which i wouldn't, i'm not suicidal) the thought that would come after frightens me because i don't know what it would be. That is the only thing about death that scares me. For some reason reincarnation makes a lot more sense to me than heaven or hell. Any one have different views?
Our ideas can last forever. If I can contribute one lasting thing to the rest of the world then that is all the imortality that I need. Whether or not our sense of the self will still exist when we are deceased is a whole other matter, one that I am rather skeptical of. Yes, I am rather doubtful that the ego can survive across the divide of death, but just like any human being (out of the innate desire to prolong my existence) I most cetainly hope that it somehow does. Just like any naturalist, I believe that conciousness is entirely brain based. So once the brain ceases to function concousness ceases IMO. It all comes down to Descartes old phrase "I think, therefore I am". Well, once you stop thinking, you no longer "are". This I believe even though I hope to the cosmos that I am somehow wrong.
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