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The Mystery Of Death
What happens really when we die?
As a strong believer in science and an atheist with little agnostic tendencies, I found plenty of satisfying scientific answers to many questions about life itself. But one topic still eludes me to this day, and I am still in complete wonder about what the true answer to it will be.
The question about what really happens to our mind, our soul, when we die.
No true scientific answer yet
Death embraces everyone. It’s a fate none of us can overcome. No matter who we are in life, death will come to us all. While Religion offers plenty of possibilities like Heaven, meeting your lost loved ones and spending eternity in a paradise (or alternatively a never-ending purgatory of hell), the most reasonable answer science got so far is far more unsettling than hell could ever be.
Nothingness. You die, so you can’t observe. The moment your brain dies, you cease to exist. Since you can’t observe, there is nothing to observe. Nothingness. It’s not even a deep infinite blackness since blackness still counts as something observable. Nothingness means nothing at all.
And it’s hard to visualize, simply because we can’t visualize nothingness. The same counts…
