Do you believe in death after life? If so, where will you go?

[Magrittes Pipe]

What / who will you become?

Just wondering.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. I, for one, believe that I will die after I am done living.

I will become ashes, and I will be cast to the four winds from Terminal Tower.

[ohiosmith]

2. Anywhere but Philadelphia I hope.

[Gothic Sponge]

3. Schenectady

[XNASA]

4. To a beautiful island with a mountain shaped like my head.....

...where I can drink bourbon and smoke cigars all day with no ill effects.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Just like Marlon Brando!

[XNASA]

6. I said, "with no ill effects".

<burp>

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Just like Margaux Hemingway!

[XNASA]

10. Her head is shaped nothing like mine.

But the rest of her is, er, was.

[indigobusiness]

9. That would be heaven.

Aside from the mountain.

[Longgrain]

8. Does cloning count as life after death...

If you we cloned after you die? I would be you and you would be alive but you'd be after death...Then I could be dead again. I don't know, just trying to get existential here.

[MrModerate]

31. Very interesting novel called "Pandora's Planet"

-- presuming you can stomach Sci-fi (as I can).

Among its premises is that people have wangled what they consider immortality by recording all their memories, at the most detailed level imaginable, which are transferred to a new body when their previous one wears out. The clone wakes up thinking it's the same person. The clone has all the rights (property included) of the previous person, and so there's a continuity of family, friends, and business associates that is (for the characters in the book) indistinguishable from immortality.

I couldn't help thinking -- no, no, that's just a copy! It was particularly disturbing that characters would arrange "transfer" to a new body for cosmetic reasons, when their current body got to its 40s and 50s -- necessitating that the current body be discarded as part of the transfer.

What do you think? Immortality or suicide?

[terrya]

11. I will merge as one with the universe itself and will become godlike.

Or maybe not.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. You already ARE godlike, Terry.

Are you dead?

[terrya]

19. Good question, Al!

"checking pulse".

Hey, there ARE vital signs!

Hooray!! :-)

Thanks for the compliment, btw. Attaining deity status is something we all must aspire to.

T

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. It comes with age.

;)

[terrya]

21. Well, then, I have a HUGE head start on you!

:-)

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. No, Terry. I said "age," not... that.

:o

[terrya]

26. Mr. One Track Mind...moi.... should stick to the subject.

"Age". Got it.

[CarbonDate]

12. No, I don't believe in death after life

At least not for me. I'm going to live forever.

Am I the only one who noticed that typo?

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. You will learn, grasshopper. You will learn.

[CarbonDate]

22. Death after life is kind of a given, isn't it?

None of us are vampires, as far as I know, so we're all going to die. So how can one not believe in death after life?

I'm assuming the poster meant life after death, of course, in which case, yes; all life feeds off of death. Bodies decomposing, fertilizing the earth, feeding plants, consumed by animals which die, etc. Until entropy, that is. Then everything dies.

[Magrittes Pipe]

25. You assume incorrectly.

As I said: you will learn. ;)

[dolo amber]

13. I will go into an urn

that will at summarily be knocked over and spilled at a party one of my future grandchildren will be throwing while their parents are out of town. There will be much screaming and panic, then they'll incinerate the cat to replace my ashes. This will then be accidentally revealed at a completely inappropriate moment, and much hilarity will ensue.

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. "That wasn't dolo amber tea you drank... that was dolo amber!"

:o

[Feathered Fish]

17. I'm hoping a woodland burial

I need to check if this is allowed where I live.

[Droolian]

18. Brahmns day and Brahmins light, fella.

Existence is a great lung - it breathes in and breathes out - life follows death follows life follows death. I hope in the next incarnation to be a stoat. That sounds neat.

[Magrittes Pipe]

23. I like Cope too, but there is such a thing as too many listens to "Fried."

Try some nice Gerry and the Pacemakers records to clear your thoughts.

[Droolian]

28. It's all Cope all the time in my house, fella.

[Magrittes Pipe]

30. Well, I can't fault your taste.

[pdx_prog]

27. I am a Frisbeetarian

We believe that when you die your soul goes up and sits on your roof for eternity....:)

[paula777]

29. Ummm, I don't think that "death after life" is even debatable

Did you mean something else or where you kidding?

[DS1]

32. I think the more pertinent question is when

:scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

33. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow....

:evilgrin:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

34. I'm scared I'll just have to

do my whole life all over again like some really extended "Groundhog Day."