Is anyone else just a teensy bit excited for death? (Not a cry for help, I'm fine, just hear me out)

@LeopoldBloom i have no experiences before birth. My mind is compelled to fill that space with concepts that are still more than what true nothingness would be.

I do know that whatever i experienced before birth lead to my birth into this world though.

So could that imply some sort of cycle?

@SW-User No, it implies that consciousness is the result of the brain developing to a certain point. When your brain is returned to its basic components, your consciousness will cease to exist.

We have no evidence of consciousness without at least a body.

@LeopoldBloom fair point. Like i told blueveins though, all we have as far as science is what we observe with our minds, and death is beyond the mind.

So while that may be our best scientific guess, it really is still just a guess.

Anything is possible when it comes to death. Thats the exciting part.

@SW-User I wouldn't say "anything is possible." We do know a lot about consciousness and there's no evidence that it can persist beyond death or can exist at all without some physical structure. Even the root system of plants appears to have a rudimentary consciousness, and a dead body won't even have that level of structure.

I think belief in life after death is just a way of dealing with the thought of eternal oblivion. If our consciousness is eternal, we should all remember what we were doing before we were born.

@SW-User What you're describing is beyond scientific theory, as there's no way to test for it. In that sense, anything is possible. We could be living in a computer simulation, or the Gnostic belief that the universe was created by a malevolent demiurge could be correct. It's fun to speculate about all this but it's not going to influence how I live my life.

@LeopoldBloom and thats fine. Hell, I agree.

Im just trying to explain how unknowable death is and why that excites me on some level.