What is the most rational outcome of death?

Did someone ever come back to tell us?

The state of you before you existed

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I'm going to be reincarnated as a wealthy chad to live a life of leisure and there's nothing you fags can say to convince I won't. I deserve it. I've suffered enough during this life cycle my next one will surely be better...

>>2894314
Lack of consciousness. Like you were knocked out with anasthesia before surgery and just never woke up. No dreams, no emptiness, just nothing.

>>2894319
My point is that disappearing of our mind is impossible from "our own point of view". Its like when you are in coma, you dont remember anything, you just wake up.

>>2894314
If we remove a certain part of your brain, you lose the ability to speak. If we remove another one, you can't recognize certain objects. Yet another one, and you no longer have tactile sensations.
So why should we expect that once you remove every single part, somehow, a spirit like substance manages to still work despite the body being dead?

>>2894314
Your brain's just a computer. You shut it down the programming is still there, or its all deleted.

>>2894314
Yo go to Hell and the Devil pokes you with a pitchfork forever.

Obviously.

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist." – Epicurus

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someone should kill themselves and report back to this thread and tell us what happened

>>2896274
Jokes on you I'm already dead inside

>>2896249
thanks captain obvious

>>2896274
can someone replace the caption in this image with this >>2896249

>>2896291
If its obvious existed, people wouldn't have asked this question forever.

>>2894319
The Patriots did in the super bowl this year, an I right, fellas?
*reaches into the cooler and pulls out an ice-cold Bud Light*

>>2894314
Cessation of awareness

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Ghost people. Probably getting crowded though with all the dead people, most likely a few ghosts sitting on you right now.

So many simpletons that are unable to grasp the legitimacy of Epicurean logic regarding death. One of the few instances in which a school of thought wholly understood death's role in regards to human existence. They made it as simple as it had to be, without confabulating nonsensical creation stories or illusions of an after life. They accepted finitude.

People don't appreciate sound logical statements/arguments as much as they should, especially within the realm that is Western philosophy.

"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."

>>2896082
this is a cultural thing, a product of the influence of the era we are living

>>2894391
what if you replace parts of your brain with copies made of different matter?
now what if instead of replacing the existing parts of yoru brain you assemble them creating a perfect copy of your brain?
who is you?
this is basically my version of the teleporter paradox, united with the theseus ship paradox

>>2897713
someone should just try it in practice t b h this way we'll finally know
where is mengele when you need him ?

>>2894323
This. We don't remember, we can't even conceive of anything before we were born, we will go back to that.

>>2898336
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>>2894323
it makes life fucking pointless though i'd rather you lie to me

>>2894314
Nobody knows the answer to this question, we can only speculate.

>>2896354
>>Bud Light
Disgusting, get some taste you fucking plebeian.

>>2898352

You seriously think you'd be more satisfied with a finite answer?

>>2898415
yes
please tell me that you have scientifically found out how if you are good you go to heaven and if you are bad you go to hell
then you go live in the clouds with jesus and the people you love, forever
it'd be much better

>>2898427

That sounds so lame. I'd rather believe in reincarnation than anything like that. If it helps, reincarnation is scientifically true. At least, your atoms will find some usage after you die, possibly by taking part in other living organisms.

>>2894314
Kingdom of God

>>2898440
reincarnation is cool too
a bit shit if you don't remember it but if you can get a concept that your soul is eternal it sounds good

>>2898450

What difference does it make if there's a soul or not if you can't remember anything?

>>2894314

Oblivion

The neurons stop firing and your flesh rots in the ground, or is burned and spread to the wind.

In my opinion, it's a form of reincarnation: your body is recycled into the earth, is eaten by microbes, that are eaten by bigger microbes, some is eaten by worms or maybe burrowing animals, these worms and animals in turn gets eaten by larger animals, that shit all over the place and fertilize the crops that sustain humanity.

>>2898473
well at least i can tell myself i'm not doing all this for no reason

>>2898482

You just have the wrong perspective. I mean whether or not you're doing it for a reason is up to you. Just because there's an afterlife doesn't necessarily assign a meaning to the here and now. You do that.

When you zoom out far enough, everything becomes meaningless. Even the incredibly meaningful lives of people we discuss here all the time: Caesar, Alexander, Huangdi, etc.