What is your concept of death?

[split decision]

In this thread here:

http://www.mmafighting.net/forum/sho...long-your-life!

Cbear informs us all that we're going to die. Talk about your spoilers!!! Man, that is a bummer.

So, I'm curious what people who frequent this forum think is going to happen to them when they die? For all of our amazing technology, the one thing that still eludes humankind is what happens after we take our last breath, even though billions of people have gone before us.

Personally, because I don't practice religion, I'm in the "ya just rot in the ground" camp. It's simply the end.

[Cbear]

Well, I would hope its the eternal afterlife which hopefully is a good thing and not eternal damnation in Dantes lake of fire. The concept of reincarnation is you keep coming back until you get it right and then reach enlightenment--or pretty much the equivilent of Heaven mentioned before. If its game over and mulch the reality is that we dont even become fertilzer for the trees since we are embalmed, buried in a casket encased in a concrete vault. So, you just stew away in a tin can doing no good for anything.

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[Guilty]

I really don't ****ing know, but I think everything shuts off and you just cease to exist is the most likely scenario so that's what I voted.

[bhorrrr]

game over.

and what's with our burial rituals? we should really all just be ashes. burial grounds take up way too much of the world.

[spasgur]

game over.

and what's with our burial rituals? we should really all just be ashes. burial grounds take up way too much of the world.

Agreed. When someone dies you might as well use their decomposing body for something useful instead of filling up way too much space with them.
And I don't believe in afterlife. I don't believe in all these supernatural phenomena like god, ghosts or an afterlife. I believe in what can be observed, tested and scientifically proven. The simple explanation about the afterlife is that people are scared of dying and not "being" anymore so they come up with shït like afterlife and heaven to make them feel safe.

[IchiTheKiller]

The simple explanation about the afterlife is that people are scared of dying and not "being" anymore so they come up with shït like afterlife and heaven to make them feel safe.

my thoughts exactly

[Cbear]

I agree that our burial practices are wrong. The old Earth to Earth, Ashes to Ashes should be followed. Just put the bodies in a burial shroud with no embalming and bury them so they return to the Earth. Cremation is fine. A viking funeral pyre on a boat even better. But to take up real estate locked fermenting inside a steel casket inside a concrete vault is just wrong. Supposedly its a health issue. I just dont see it. If thats the case then pour quick lime on top of the body in the burial shroud.

[Mtn Man]

I want to be cremated after dying, but I thought this story was pretty cool. A 103 year-old man who recently died was burried in a coffin made from a 217 year-old elm tree he had protected for years in his nieghborhood.

http://bostonherald.com/news/nationa...ne#articleFull

[bhorrrr]

buried in a tree that, i'm assuming, will decompose, is fine with me. it's the **** that cbear's ranting about that gets on my nerves.

sky burials are pretty awesome, too. also, if all of the world's mountains were covered in corpses that were picked at over time by a cloud of fatass vultures, that would be pretty ****ing sweet.

[jmose86]

buried in a tree that, i'm assuming, will decompose, is fine with me. it's the **** that cbear's ranting about that gets on my nerves.

sky burials are pretty awesome, too. also, if all of the world's mountains were covered in corpses that were picked at over time by a cloud of fatass vultures, that would be pretty ****ing sweet.

Not disagreeing, but those are pretty gruesome. They have to "prepare" the bodies first by opening them and cutting them up into pieces. I'm all for joining Osama at the bottom of the ocean.