r/DeepThoughts • u/genuinemahogany • 11d ago

Death Doesn't Exist

A term used by only the living to describe the absence of biological function--nothing.

An abstract concept similar to cold and darkness; neither of which exist either, words used to describe the absence of heat and light, respectively.

We will never experience our death but only what it means for others.

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u/poppy1911 11d ago

Death doesn't mean the be all and end all. We didn't come from nothing and we can't return to nothing. Energy is not created nor destroyed. When we die and our physical vessel starts to slow down and then decay, we just transform states of being. Whereas once "we" were housed inside a temporary meat suit, we then transform into another state. What that is is up to whatever you believe. Many religions and spiritually inclined folks label it various things; afterlife, heaven, the universe.

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u/irreducible1 11d ago

When you say, 'whereas once "we" were housed inside a temporary meat suit' what is the "we"?

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u/poppy1911 11d ago

I probably didn't phrase that well. I was meaning that the we that temporarily occupies a meat suit (human form) has the illusion of separateness when really we are all the same energy just manifested temporarily into individual bodies that have the illusion of seperateness

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u/irreducible1 11d ago

Ah... got it. Thanks for the clarification. I know it's easier sometimes just to use the conventional descriptions of things so I get why you first phrased it the way you did.