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They confirm life after death is real and you'll see your friends and family that have passed, what do you do?
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return2ozma lemmy.world return2ozma@lemmy.world
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Obviously hypothetical. Just curious what others would do.

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Flying_Penguin lemmy.zip Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-11
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Become immortal.

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garth sh.itjust.works garth@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-03-04
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Wonder if I'm going to the good place or the bad place.

Otherwise, probably nothing different than I'm doing already.

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FriendOfDeSoto startrek.website FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Who are "they?"

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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-10-06
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Do I have to see my family?

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carl_dungeon lemmy.world carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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If you were lucky enough to have been married to the love of your life twice but both of them die before you, which one do you spend the afterlife with?

If your infant child dies, do you spend eternity with them changing their diapers?

You’re reunited with your high school sweetheart but they died in a car crash at 15 and you at 90. You spend eternity with a “kid” as an afterlife lover?

You had a dozen pets in your life- you have to have them all in the same house at the same time forever?

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Lumidaub feddit.org Lumidaub@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-11-21
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What does "see" mean? What does that entail? Can I look at them in a zoo?

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etchinghillside reddthat.com etchinghillside@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-13
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Depends – have they seen everything I’ve been doing?

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nymnympseudonym piefed.social nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
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I demand an explanation of exactly how information theory and quantum field theory were both wrong in their fundamental principles, and it turns out we actually are blobs of spirit energy driving around in meat suits, instead of being just thinking meat that dies.

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mrnobody reddthat.com mrnobody@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-01-08
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If you were lucky enough to have been married to the love of your life twice but both of them die before you, which one do you spend the afterlife with? If your infant child dies, do you spend eternity with them changing their diapers? You’re reunited with your high school sweetheart but they died in a car crash at 15 and you at 90. You spend eternity with a “kid” as an afterlife lover? You had...

Here's one.

If when you're alive, it's said there are many versions of you, because everyone knows you a little differently and perceives things differently.

Imagine when you're dead, that every time you see someone, you each see your favorite/most known version of each other. So the example of HS sweetheart, they'd see you as a 15yo. Dead spouse, same, they'd see you how you last were and vice versa.

You could be so much to so many people... Imagine how nice that'd be!

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Sumocat lemmy.world Sumocat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
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To quote 1997 Miss Universe Brook Lee, “I would eat everything twice.”

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Hudell lemmy.dbzer0.com Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
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I would ask my childhood friend how he died. A few years after we lost contact, he was found dead on his bed in the first day of his two-week PTO. I had just signed into a job in that same city and was thinking about reaching out to him.

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fizzle quokk.au fizzle@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-11-21
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Make up a bunch of arbitrary mystical rules about who will be lucky enough to enjoy this new paradise and who will be relegated to an eternity of misery.

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waterore lemmy.world waterore@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Continue working at getting off this wheel of samsara

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Lumidaub feddit.org Lumidaub@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-11-21
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Here's one. If when you're alive, it's said there are many versions of you, because everyone knows you a little differently and perceives things differently. Imagine when you're dead, that every time you see someone, you each see your favorite/most known version of each other. So the example of HS sweetheart, they'd see you as a 15yo. Dead spouse, same, they'd see you how you last were and vice...

Confusing as fuck is what it would be. What if my mum and the friend I hung out with for four months on student exchange and my favourite primary school teacher all meet me at the same time? They don't know of each other's existence and they know wildly different me's. Which me would I be? Do I notice myself oscillating between personalities and bodies?

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Random_Character_A lemmy.world random_character_a@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
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I can feel my entire ancestry judging me from here. That would be just too cruel.

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aphonefriend lemmy.dbzer0.com aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-20
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Here's one. If when you're alive, it's said there are many versions of you, because everyone knows you a little differently and perceives things differently. Imagine when you're dead, that every time you see someone, you each see your favorite/most known version of each other. So the example of HS sweetheart, they'd see you as a 15yo. Dead spouse, same, they'd see you how you last were and vice...

This world needs more people like you.

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IWW4 lemmy.zip IWW4@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-12
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.. nothing..

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mrnobody reddthat.com mrnobody@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-01-08
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Confusing as fuck is what it would be. What if my mum and the friend I hung out with for four months on student exchange and my favourite primary school teacher all meet me at the same time? They don't know of each other's existence and they know wildly different me's. Which me would I be? Do I notice myself oscillating between personalities and bodies?

Wouldn't you agree they already know "2 different versions" of you already? Your mum would know you a lot better of course, and probably view you as more highly regarded. Same you, just different perspectives. And hey, in the afterlife, it could be totally different physics and understandings. Who knows.

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mrnobody reddthat.com mrnobody@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-01-08
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This world needs more people like you.

Hah thanks!

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SanguinePar lemmy.world sanguinepar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
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I think this is the exact plot of The Discovery on Netflix. In the film, it leads to a lot of suicide.

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Dingaling lemmy.ml digdilem@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-22
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I'd rather see all my dogs, cats and horses again.

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Wahots pawb.social Wahots@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-08
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It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life?
If so, I'll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.

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Bazell lemmy.zip Bazell@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-11-12
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Silly question. Pass away too. 🙃

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socsa piefed.social socsa@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-08-20
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I would believe that I am a brain in a jar hooked to electrodes in some kind of future sci-fi hell before I believe that I am experiencing paranormal magic woo.

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marcie (she/her) lemmy.ml marcie@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-03-22
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Angry that I have to deal with my stupid family for the rest of eternity. Do my best to undo the afterlife

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Smeagol666 crazypeople.online Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-08-08
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I'm an atheist so I'll probably be in Hell, but my Grandma was an atheist, so I guess I'll get to see her too!

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orlyowl piefed.ca orlyowl@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-28
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I'd live the rest of my life with just a little more spring in my step knowing death wasn't the end.

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