Do any of you wonder what awaits us after death?

Well of course many (including me) assume that our mind will just go blank, or have religious beliefs.

But what would be an ideal afterlife that you would prefer?

Would it be nice to just wake up after death, and be in a beautiful garden, where a pretty girl/angel tells you that you have died, and gives you a tour of the paradise or a tour of your own life.

Or you can review your past life, and see the type of person you are going to be in your next life, and then forget everything you saw, and become born into another baby.

Sorry, it's a bit crazy, but I would like to know what you all think.

Oh yeah, I kinda like the afterlife shown in Corpse Bride too!

The land of the dead is much more colorful than the land of the living!

Who knows what await us in the "afterlife." It depends on how you lived your life. If you where cruel & mean to people including animals. You go to heck (whatever bad people go) & if you where good & kind you go to heaven. ^^

Edit: But I DO like the idea of getting a tour & stuff.

Hmm...Heaven kinda sounds boring to me...Of course hell doesn't sound too fun...I hope to become a ghost so I can haunt people. Man would I have fun...

Am i the only one who thinks it would be quite nice to just end, with romanticised tears from loved ones thrown in of course.

I'll help God to manage the universe.
Too big for him to handle everything.

Same here.

If we get to choose our afterlife, I'd want to travel with Doctor Who in space and time.

--Jaylemurph

I always liked the idea in that Robin Williams film "What Dreams May Come". THAT would be a cool scenario.

Or imagine feeling that first and best ever love all the time, with no uncertainty or fear. That would be a pleasant thing, and a just reward for a life well lived I think.

Well, let's see.
Rocky Mountains or along the Washington Coast.
Every year would be aboutu 1450 a.d.
Each day would be like late summer: hot in the day and cool at night.
Plenty of friends to share experiences and tales.
Lady friends by the score (If you're reading this Lord, I'm partial to redheads with freckles and green eyes. But then, you're God, so you probably already know that, right?)
Cut firewood appears each morning.
Plenty of lead, gunpowder and percussion caps for my .50-caliber muzzleloading rifle and Colt 1851 Navy revolver in .36 caliber.
Hot, running water on demand.
The days are temperate, with rain now and then to make things interesting.
A vast library of real books.
Perfect health.
Perpetual age of 27.
Each evening is a vast buffet of Chinese, Mexican, French, German, Italian, seafood and American cuisine.
Each breakfast is a buffet of my favorites.
No waistline expansion after eating as much as I want.
Living in a large tipi beside a river that never floods.
Modern fishing gear and a river full of trout, salmon, bass, perch, crappie, catfish, etc.
A modern kitchen stocked with Belgique and cast iron ware so I can cook when I feel like it.
The ability to play the fiddle and piano.

That will do for starters. Yep, sounds like Heaven to me.

If I ever get to attached to this world. I would want to be a ghost. Just to watch over my loved ones & see how they live. After my death. :3 And to keep them safe from danger. Yeah.

Hi Mr. Sasquatch :-)

No, that's not crazy at all. In fact, I heard of a man who was a botanist, and he had a near death experience where he appeared in a place where there were all kinds of beautiful plants. Since this man had studied plants and liked them, he experienced being in a place that offered this to him.

For a long time I have prayed and visualized a place where I would like to go when I pass on. It looks very similar to one of Thomas Kincade's paintings of a cottage. And the cottage is in a beautiful place surrounded by many flowers. There is a creek nearby and tall beautiful trees. I would also like it to include animals such as birds and squirrels(my favorite animal). This is where I'd like to go when I pass on. :-) I have often wondered if we are presented with our own little heaven fashioned just the way we like it.

I've had an NDE myself and that was really weird, I was in the room where I nearly died but the time was frozen, I've seen many issues of the "accident" I had that day. I've seen good and bad things. I felt like I was in the middle of parallel worlds, of ways to choose from. Death didn't seem to exist, I was only changing the way my life would go on.

But as I was nearly dead I couldn't choose, I could only watch and someone or something else did the choice for me. It was really hard, your mind suffer a lot (I really didn't want to die, but living would have been a bad thing too as my recent acts would have led to consequences). I woke up when I accepted to go with these consequences and then done the first step into my brand new life.

My way of living and thinking has drastically changed since, I'm learning everyday about parallel universe, quantum mechanics and such a that's what came in front of me, that was that kind of experience I couldn't believe in before.

I felt the unity of every living things and now I know that I don't have to waste my energy trying to get more for myself but spend it for others, I know now that the world is reflecting on yourself, everything you do, every single instant in your life is as important as your whole life.

Interesting.

Yeah, this is what i think heaven is. A place where all of the things your subconscious mind likes is. Other than that i like the 1450's one. The dark ages but without all the death, disease and darkness . Meeting Doctor who would be cool as well.

Hi Adam :-)

Ok, I'm curious. Besides meeting Dr. Who, what would be your ideal heaven for you?

A life where theres no such thing as money

I dont know really, thats why i said let my subconscous decied. I guess a castle on a hill, overlooking the sea, filled with history, great librarys and books which tell the truth of the world. And loads of really cool gadgets. And a stargate of course. Ive never really thought about it in depth.

After my death I just want peace. Whatever form that "peace" takes is fine with me.

Absolute peace with none of the negative emotions (anger, hate, jealousy etc) that are here on earth...

it's not about what i want ~ but what wants me
~ bring it on

There will be none of that! *Shoots negative daggers of anger, hate, jealousy etc from his eyes at Star* Take that hippie!

ill take a little cottage on a tropical island, with clear lagoons and tidepools where it is always warm, but there are rain showers at night (to sleep to) and always a little breeze. Friends and family are around, dogs everywhere...and other animals (they go to 'heaven' too in my mind)

Always delicious food to eat, music to listen to, and books to read. And, I think the best part, answers to all the questions we ask on this forum, and the ability to recollect any moment from your life.

Was that the film where he met a woman and they fell in love then at the end she had passed her Earth life "exams" and was going on to a better place, but he was told he would have to stay behind, as she was driven off in a coach he ran after her and managed to get onto the coach etc etc <gasps for breath>

If it was that film, I liked that, it is time they reshowed it on TV.

If you'd really like to know......Why not find out from people who've been there ?

Check it

www.nderf.org

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a great and interesting read

I would just want peace when I'm dead, how that peace comes isn't important to me.

Your mind does go blank. But, in time the light overcomes the darkness and you wake in another or it could be the same world. If you take science in school, you may come across Einstein's theory of motion, or Newton, but it states, 'A thing put in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.' You are the thing put in motion. Your consciosness has been put into motion. Death is the outside force that stops you. But death is just a doorway. My ideal afterlife would be peace, love, prosperity, etc. you know, things that aren't now, I guess, in abundance. You don't wish for things that you have no idea about. And the ideas you have are part of you or the direction in which you are going and you interpret those ideas according to the 'world' in which you live. You desire to go horseback riding in the countryside in this life may be translated in your next life to sailing on a wide ocean if the world has those things to fulfill your desire in that way. You can see the life around you. You have progressed into the consciosness of a person. If your dream is to win a million dollars and retire, that is the words that you have used to translate your dream. You, however, do not control the interpretation of your desires, the environment does. You cannot fly in a automobile so for the people who see flying cars are deluded, but the jets now and airplanes and helicopters are flying cars and they are killing us, see. Orville and Wilbur are somewhere. I don't know what Henry Ford was thinking when he put that motor in a box and hooked the motor up to the wheels and rode it down the road. Did he wish that everybody's legs would fall off. Well, Henry Ford is in this world somewhere, along with Einstein, and Hitler, and John Wilkes Boothe. You see, it is not what you desire, it is what you do. Henry Ford built the car and mass made it, that's his world and that's our world as long as we have cars, his spirit is in control of your desire to use a car. Einstein was a smart German, he thought of a lot of ideas, relativity and other thing that people like to study, but what he did was invent the atomic bomb. His adopted country used this atomic bomb to destroy some people. And we haven't stop using bombs to destroy people. Hitler thought he was the descendant of a Nordic Atlantean, an Aryan. What did he do? He wanted to rid the world of the undesirables so that the Master Race would be the only occupants of the globe. It is still going on. It crept up in the feud between the Islamic world and the Christians. Then there was John Wilkes Boothe. What did he do? Well, he was wishing that his family could use all of those slaves he had. Abraham Lincoln thought otherwise and drew up the 'Emancipation Proclamation' to free the southern slaves. John Wilkes Boothe thought otherwise also and 'pop' to the back of the head at Ford's Theatre and Lincoln left for awhile. Lincoln appeared back on the scene as John F. Kennedy and Boothe appeared as maybe Lee Harvey Oswald and 'pop' to the back of the head and where was it? I don't mean where was the assasination or the point that both were in the back of the head, but one was in a theatre and one was in a library, both were above the ground, and both had to do with a window. There is a post where I talk about mimicking or copying. Its like aftershocks of an earthquake. The devised spirt will find a way to fulfill itself, a thing put into motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.