Do you WANT there to be an afterlife?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I'm going there.


Basiclly, do you want there to be an afterlife? That when someone dies, they pass on to a (possibly eternal) life of positivity (or negativity depending on their earth lives)? Or maybe you want there to be reincarnation, like in most Asian religions? While I mostly am asking non-believers, go ahead and answer in you believe in such.

As for me, I want there to be an afterlife, but what about the rest of you?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

If it's a pleasant one, of course.

[Meclazine for Israel]

I want to come back as a three toed sloth living on a tropical island.

[RINO Tom]

Yeah, I would say I do want there to be one, especially if some of my lost relatives are there.  Since such a place would almost certainly exist outside of the realms of time and space, the concept of boredom (with eternity) wouldn't really apply, either.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I'm more comfortable without an afterlife

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

If it's a pleasant one, of course.

[Beet]

When I was around six or seven years old, I first comprehended the meaning of mortality. My immediate thought was that any rational person in my position would dedicate the rest of his life to finding a scientific cure for this condition. But I didn't have the mental strength to do it, as I wanted to enjoy life. Ever since then, I have not lived up to my principles and values.

[Vosem]

Without details on what sort of afterlife it is, no. It is easy for me to think of things much more horrifying than passing away into nothingness. With specific details, sure, maybe. Voted no, though.

[Lumine]

It would solve my fear of death entirely, so yes, a thousand times yes.

[136or142]

Imagine if the afterlife is your active mind being in the coffin with your body for all eternity.  

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I do, but my conception of the "afterlife" involves transcending linear time, so it's not really "after".

[Antonio the Sixth]

I find some conceptions of the afterlife very appealing and would like them to be true, but I don't actually need to believe in any of them. Amazingly, for reasons I'm not sure I myself understand, I'm pretty much at peace with the idea of my consciousness ceasing to exist in any form.

There is something of myself that I would like to subsist, but that something is something that's common to all of humanity and that will endure as long as humanity continues to move forward. One thing I'd be afraid of is the idea that humanity might disappear or collapse into some dystopian nightmare.

[afleitch]

I'd prefer my consciousness in all literal and metaphorical forms to cease; to be in the state it was before I even existed (which wasn't particularly taxing)

[fhtagn]

If it's a pleasant one, of course.

[kyc0705]

If it's a pleasant one, of course.

Indeed. Otherwise, I wouldn’t mind a nice long nap. This life thing seems like it’ll be pretty exhausting.

[The Puppeteer]

Yes but only if I can choose every aspect of where I spend the rest of eternity and can live there however I please.

[Del Tachi]

My idea of the afterlife is that the parts of our person that are from God (i.e., the immutable soul) return to Him, but I don't really believe that will be a *personal experience.  I don't expect to take my memories, experiences, interests or even relationships with me to the afterlife...it will be a new type of existence, one that my current human self cannot understand or relate to.   

[Torie]

No.

[John Dule]

Of course I want to live forever-- though not enough to trick myself into thinking I actually will, of course.

[Samof94]

No, never needed one.
Reliving life as someone else might be interesting as a though experiment though.

[Rosethecommie]

I don’t believe in one but it would be nice if there was one. I would pull a Lil Nas X and pole dance down to hell 

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The only afterlife as we know is perhaps reincarnation, in Revelation it says Heaven and He'll comes after the last day, but who knows what's in the Astral plane

[vitoNova]

Absolutely.  It would be cool to have an ultimate fate that doesn't involve you becoming worm food.

But this life is the only shot you get, kids.  

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Absolutely.  It would be cool to have an ultimate fate that doesn't involve you becoming worm food.

But this life is the only shot you get, kids.  

We don't know that, there can be reincarnation or a Rapture, and your soul isn't worm food, it's in the Astral plane, you can't take things literally

There is an Astral plane, when you dream, there are premonitions

[RINO Tom]

Of course.