Is there really nothing after death?
To say there’s nothing after death is, in a way, a metaphysical assumption. Let me put it this way. You will never die – you will never get to experience death or nothingness!! Just like the north pole and south pole never get to see each other face-to-face; likewise you will never get to see death face-to-face either.
Is it irrational to believe there is nothing after death?
In a way, it’s more irrational to believe in “nothing,” considering that, from the point of view of experience, we can — by definition — never have an experience of nothing. To say there’s nothing after death is, in a way, a metaphysical assumption. Let me put it this way. You will never die – you will never get to experience death or nothingness!!
Do people come back from the dead and there’s nothing there?
No one has ever come back from the dead and said “there’s nothing there.” Lots of people have claimed an experience of “something” there. They might be wrong, they might be hallucinating, but there is evidence (maybe even proof) that consciousness isn’t tied down to the brain.
Does death exist in this world?
Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking.
Is death a state or nothingness?
No. Death is not a state or a nothingness. Death is something which happens (an organism shutting down), sometimes quickly (as in stepping on a bug) and sometimes slowly (as in old age). So dying can be a state. After death occurs, all of the elements which make up a living organism stay in tact,…
Is there such a thing as nothingness?
Nothingness is just a concept but people take the word so literally that they believe there is such a thing as nothingness. Death could still possibly be like going into an eternal sleep, but it does not mean ceasing to exist. There are larger implications when it is realized that there is no such thing as ceasing to exist.