do you believe that death is just a dreamless sleep?

Canada
April 26, 2007 6:48pm CST
dreamless, breathless, nothingness? pretty scary, do you think this will happen and that this life is the only life? what has lead you to believe this?
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• United States
27 Apr 07
my faith has led me to believe that when we die , we are asleep untill judgement day.
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• Canada
27 Apr 07
who judges you?
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@oldiebut (859)
• Canada
27 Apr 07
Yes this is what I believe. When I was young it was scarier that it is now. Maybe life is wearing me down a bit. My belief is based on rationality. I simply see no evidence that any kind of afterlife (be it ghost, heaven, reincarnation, zombie, whatever) exists. Even if it did, I can't think of a single example of afterlife given by the various pseudosciences or religions that I would want to participate in.
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• Canada
27 Apr 07
comforting to believe in it though
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@oldiebut (859)
• Canada
28 Apr 07
Ah but I don't find an illusion comforting, merely briefly entertaining.
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• United States
28 Apr 07
I love your thought-provoking discussions fight! The first thing that comes to my mind when reading your question is this...have you ever seen roadkill? A little bunny bounding merrily across the highway with a little "bunny-like smile" on his face as he heads toward some tastier fields on the other side...then suddenly, a car speeds by...SMUCK! No more little bunny, just a lifeless little body whose last thought was happy and he is still smiling. As he lay there taking his last little breath he wasn't thinking, "CRUD, I really wish I would have learned what that God thing was all about before now". :)
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