# "Nobody really knows what happens after death." Is that just pc BS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 9, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-really-knows-what-happens-after-death-is-that-just-pc-bs/615278 "2012-03-09T15:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 124
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-really-knows-what-happens-after-death-is-that-just-pc-bs/615278/124 "2012-03-13T23:21:51Z")
I think we can universally say, “Great, I’ll have to sit through The Phantom Menace again.” Or, it could be there’s only one absolute consciousness, which is embodied by every living, sentient thing, with no memories of other lives. You’re you _now_, but were and will be a neanderthal ages ago, a slug, Your mom, Ghandi, Adolf Hitler, Jolene Blalock, Lindsey Lohan, some person eviscerated in medival times, Glenn Beck, Abraham Lincoln, me, Ann Coulter, her poor cat, and so on, ad infinitum. The. Horror. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-really-knows-what-happens-after-death-is-that-just-pc-bs/615278)._