# What's after death? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349 "2013-02-15T00:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tollhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@Tollhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tollhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/1 "2013-02-15T00:26:08Z")
Like the title of the thread, what’s after death? ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/2 "2013-02-15T00:31:18Z")
Estate Administration. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/3 "2013-02-15T00:39:31Z")
It’s impossible to know precisely because by the time you do, you’re dead. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/4 "2013-02-15T00:40:20Z")
Anyone who claims to know is either trying to scam you or is in the process of being scammed. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/5 "2013-02-15T00:41:52Z")
The Auditors ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/6 "2013-02-15T00:43:03Z")
Decomposition. Worms. ---
**Author:** ![Tollhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@Tollhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tollhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/7 "2013-02-15T00:45:33Z")
> [@sevenwood](#): > > Estate Administration. Ah yes, a fate worse than death…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/8 "2013-02-15T00:49:29Z")
Don’t know. I suspect nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_the_Wonder_Spirit)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/9 "2013-02-15T00:57:41Z")
Dishonor. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/10 "2013-02-15T01:18:32Z")
“First you die, then they throw dirt in your face, then the worms eat you. Be glad it happens in that order.” > [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > Dishonor. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/11 "2013-02-15T01:25:53Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Decomposition. Worms. …playing pinochle on your snout. Or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/12 "2013-02-15T01:29:33Z")
What’s after death? In my dictionary, **death adder**. Or if that doesn’t count, **deattribute**. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/13 "2013-02-15T01:30:18Z")
Not a god damn thing. Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/14 "2013-02-15T01:38:16Z")
> [@](#): > > “The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the house wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your ealdormen and thegns, while the fire blazes in the midst, and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter into winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.” from [Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England](http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bede/hist049.htm) ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/15 "2013-02-15T01:39:10Z")
Nothing. And I’m ok with that. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/16 "2013-02-15T01:41:38Z")
What was before your birth? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/17 "2013-02-15T01:45:46Z")
A funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/18 "2013-02-15T01:45:48Z")
A shallow grave behind an abandoned house, at the end of seldom used dirt road, on the outskirts of a deserted town, near an old, leaking nuclear reactor. ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/19 "2013-02-15T01:46:01Z")
Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Tollhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@Tollhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tollhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349/20 "2013-02-15T01:46:19Z")
I don’t remember a whole lot before my birth except there was that really long warm bath I seemed to sit in 24/7 which was kinda nice, and also I vaguely remember a two day trip to Japan? 🆒 Is that what will happen after death? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-after-death/650349.md?page=2)