I believe when you die, there is nothing. You are gone, with all your memories and emotions.
And to the "Do you believe in a god question"
No, I do not. I am an atheist. Don't get me wrong, I gave Chritianity a fair chance so it's not like I only know one side of the story. I've actually attended sunday school for years (what a waste of my time). Honestly, if there was a god, why would so many people be miserable? Starving? Why would diseases like aids, cancer and MS ruin peoples lives? Even those who worship that god?
But I respect anybody's views on the topic, and am anxious to read other peoples posts on the matter.
Either God is testing them or punishing them. If God is testing those people, He wants to see their reaction. Will they curse God? Will they still believe in Him or will they reject His message? Every pain on Earth is from God. He is using these pains to relieve us of our sins, not because He is careless.
You know, I went through a phase like that. I was really angry at my life. I wondered why I could be miserable. Then I started to become more religious and attempt to find out why God would allow these things to happen to people. Turns out He wants them to happen.
Believe whatever you want to believe. Not my problem.
Back on topic. I believe that when we die, a series of events will happen. According to my religion, Islam, two angels will visit you when you die. They will ask you three questions: Who is your Lord? Who is your Prophet? What is your religion? You will answer these questions according to how you lived your life.
After that, your soul will be transported to another world while your body is left to rot on Earth. In this world, you are either punished or rewarded depending on your deeds on Earth.
Things will continue in that world until the Day of Judgment, when everyone is judged on what they did in their life. The people who need to be punished will suffer in Hellfire, while the good people will live in Paradise forever...
I hope this is correct because I don't want to die and live for nothing.
Not that I'm not an optimistic individual or anything...But I'm not holding out much hope on there being any significant happenings after we die. I mean, if you think about it, each of us didn't exist until we were conceived. Our concept of life and time didn't begin until we were born. So, what happens before conception? We're obviously not self aware because there is an absence of life. Time for us begins at conception, even though time has been going on long before that happens. I think the same idea applies to death. Once we die, our "selves", in terms of our thoughts and self-awareness, cease to exist, because our brains have obviously stopped working. So essentially, with death comes a loss of our sense of being, which I would equate to the state of not being conceived yet. When we're gone, there's nothing to rationalize or think about...we're simply gone.
I feel like I could have explained that better =/
I really hope that doesn't happen. I don't think I want to be 'gone'. I mean, we must be intelligent beings for a reason, right? Something must've put us on Earth with intelligence for a reason, and we just need to follow that.
You are either
a) reincarnated
b) sent into heaven where you are sent to your own personal mini planet where everything is how you want it and such.
Why would someone be sent to heaven when they are bad? Why would someone be given the joy of life if they were bad? I think sinful people go to hell because they deserve it. Even I'm no perfect person, but I believe God is forgiving.