This happens to me from time to time and it's always torturous when I force myself to contemplate it, and since misery loves company, I am posting here.
I'm an agnostic. I don't necessarily believe in a God, nor do I believe in an afterlife, or any sort of intelligent design. Basically no belief system whatsoever.
My problem is death. Everything in life can be explained away by science and reason, and the things that can't be aren't worth considering, in my opinion. But at the end of it all we get to the one thing that hasn't been explained at all: death and what happens afterwards.
I know I'm going to get two schools of people responding, so in an attempt to pre-empt them, I will respond to them.
"mook when you die your mind ceases functioning and you cease to be". This is what I believe right now. Although I think it's the most likely, it's also the least attractive.
"mook when you die you go to <heaven/nirvana/reincarnated/hell> and live happily ever after". The best possible outcome, but also the least likely, when you consider that all that we feel is just neurochemical impulses.
I know for a fact that nobody is going to be able to help me with this, and it's just something that I'm going to have to come to terms with myself, but I just want to know where you stand on what happens after we die. This is the one thing that scares me to death (pun?), and I want to know what everyone else thinks.
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