What was before your conception?
Same as everyone else’s. Nothing. IMO, of course.
Short answer: NOBODY knows…the only man to experience this (who returned to life) was Jesus-and he said nothing about his experience.
So we are forced to deduce that we cannot know.
Death is indeed “that dark shore from which no traveler returns”.
Scandal after they find those photos hidden away in your closet.
I thought you were going to say “sex”.
I was hoping mine was an Immaculate Conception 
Heaven or Hell.
No, thats life - changes daily.
There is no death, there is the Force.
-the Jedi Code
But what happens to all of your midichlorians?
There is no reason to believe anything happens after we die other than decay.
No, we won’t, because we will be dead.
You want to believe there is something more when we die because it lessens your anxiety and fear about the finality of death. There is zero evidence that there is anything after death. All you’re doing is wishful thinking.
All this says to me is you’re willing to dismiss logic. Logic tells us that leprechauns don’t exist, and no matter how much I may wish them to, my desire doesn’t make them any more real.
That’s not being open-minded; that’s a self delusion because there is absolutely no reason to believe consciousness survives after death, nor is there one scintilla of evidence that this is even possible. There has never, ever, in the over 100 thousand year existence of humanity, and in any of the 108 billion people who have ever lived, been one case of consciousness surviving death that wasn’t proven to be fake, not one. And even if there were, there would be no way for us to ever detect it, so why would you be open-minded about something for which there is zero evidence, but close-minded about the evidence that does exist?
Blind faith is not proof, and ignorance is not affirmation, so just because you say no one knows what happens after death doesn’t mean, by any stretch, that something does.
How would anyone be close-minded about the afterlife anyway? You die, appear in Nirvana and stand there going “Nope, I’m not here. Lalalalalalala…” for eternity. The desire is silly anyway - like that quote says, people hope for eternity that don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
I’m looking forward to not breathing all the time. In, out, in, out, all the time - that shit’s exhausting. 
Onomatopoeia ,
Since we are not able to know until after we die what happens or doesn’t happen, one really can’t say either way. I think its just as silly to claim to know for sure nothing happens, if the whole point is, the people guessing about it have never died.
That’s what people keep telling me, but so far it ain’t so.
The big bang.
Your statement “Since we are not able to know until after we die what happens or doesn’t happen, one really can’t say either way” is based on nothing other than you saying it.
What evidence can you proffer that we have the ability to know anything after we die? If it is none, as I suspect, why do you give this line of thought any credence, other than wanting to believe it? I have a huge rock in my backyard. Now, I don’t ‘know’ that there isn’t a community of microscopic engineers and their families living under that rock preparing to take over the world, but the default position is to conclude that there are not. You seem to be saying that because I haven’t actually looked under the rock it is reasonable conclude miniature evil engineers live there. Doesn’t that seem ridiculous?
We cannot prove something doesn’t exist but, again, as I alluded in my previous post, just because you cannot prove something doesn’t exist doesn’t mean it exists, nor does this increase its probability of existing. You could just as easily say that I don’t know “for sure” the Easter Bunny isn’t real. Using your logic, no one has ever seen one, so how do we know?
I believe lending credence to nonsensical concepts like life after death, psychics, Big Foot, gods, etcetera may impede the intellectual progression of the human race. We may or may not have reached that point yet, but the US is already appallingly behind other countries in math and the sciences as a result, I suspect, of junk science and religious influences on education.
Yes it does make sense. We’re all gonna die. There’s more after that for our consciousness or there’s not… period. It’s the end of us or it’s not.
You don’t know me, dude. So what I’m feeling and why I believe what I believe is something you can’t possibly claim to know… ALL you do know is what I’ve stated here.
As for your certainty that there is nothing after death… you can’t possibly know that, either and neither do I. I’m curious, though. I’m not here arguing with anyone’s opinions. I merely stated my own. The OP asked the question “What’s after death?” You, on the other hand, seem to be hell bent on shooting me down since my opinion isn’t the same as yours. So WHY is that??
The last sentence of your post that I underlined… WTH? Calm down, …
The OP wasn’t taking a poll, they were asking for opinions. If you’ve got an opinion worth posting, you should be prepared to defend it. You can’t refuse to explain what you mean and then say “hey, you don’t know what I meant.” Either elaborate on your reasoning (such as it is) or concede that you’re not reasoning, just feeling and hoping. Otherwise, you wind up with the sort of crappy thought process that results in someone believing in an after-life - oh, wait.
Man, you are hilarious! Can you not see how ridiculous your comments are? We are only stating what we THINK and maybe HOPE! What’s wrong with that?
NOBODY KNOWS! Not you, not me! We keep repeating that no one does and you keep arguing with that. Good grief! There is NO evidence either way… that’s really the whole point we’re trying to make here. It’s a matter of what we choose to believe personally. Why can’t you leave it at that?
If we want to believe it, then that’s entirely up to us.
Yes we can, because we have a good grasp of the basic way the brain works, and because we see people die all the time.
No one knows or will ever know. It is a completely unanswerable question.
Sure, all of the evidence points to “nothing” or “the end of consciousness.” But life and the reality we live in is an unexplainable phenomenon, and I believe that no amount of evidence will ever be attained to explain whats going on. Yet, here we are.
If we are ill-equipped to understand how life, space, and time came about in the first place, shouldn’t we consider this fallacy when speculating on life after death?