If we discovered life after physical death exists, would your life change?

[The Straight Story]

If someone was able to prove that we continue on after our flesh dies, how would that affect you?

Have at it ;)

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Would we still have to be in coffins?

More information is needed.

[Oregone]

2. Not enough information

Do actions in our current existence impact our next? Is the next phase less or more desirable than the current? If it can be proven, via science, is there a scientific foundation for an afterlife rather than a spiritual one? etc...

I guess it depends.

[The Straight Story]

3. Well therein is the mystery

If we did discover/proved we continued on and not much else (at first) would that re-shape your thinking at all? Obviously we would want questions like yours answered but I am thinking of this more along the lines of 'if we got a transmission from an alien race tomorrow how would that affect you' - in reference to the thread on that subject.

[Oregone]

4. Probably not at all

We know the energy that flows through the conduits of our mind, which defines who we are, exists post death (but not within such conduits that would ensure our continued existence/consciousness). So, unless we knew more about what a continued afterlife was, it really doesn't change what we are working with now. How and why we would continue to exist is more important than merely continuing to do so.

I wouldn't care about aliens either. I still gotta make rent.

[1]

5. would i be born in a better house next time? be the boss of you?

i would definitely keep better notes about perceived wrongs, that's for sure...

[Selatius]

6. Well, don't we have anecdotal evidence already? Anybody watch that show TAPS on Sci-Fi?

I mean, even if we knew, there are no real practical applications for it at present. We would still need to go to work to put food on the table and pay the bills. Many things would continue on as before except perhaps our views on religion.

Yet, life would be so much simpler if we didn't need food or shelter to exist.

If we could find some way to build equipment that lets us communicate with the dead, one possibility is that a person could administer his estate from beyond the grave into perpetuity. If a corporation can theoretically be immortal under the law, then a dead person who can still talk into this world could do the same.

Imagine having access to knowledge and talents of people who have passed on...like Dr. Martin Luther King or Albert Einstein or Carl Sagan.

[elocs]

7. No.

[get the red out]

8. Not in the slightest

no other comment

[saltpoint]

9. I'd need to hear who was the on-site supervisor of the next life.

If it's Bill Moyers or Bella Abzug, I'd be a lot more enthusiastic than if it were Bill Kristol or Mean Jean Schmidt.

If we can pick our own hang group, I'm in.

[RC]

10. No. I'm a Liberal, not a hard hearted selfish republican.

No need to change anything.

[W_HAMILTON]

11. Yep.

I wouldn't be so preoccupied with death -- I'd live the hell outta life!

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[callous taoboy]

13. If there exists an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon

would this affect our admiration of the moon?

[Javaman]

14. I would suddenly stop living life to the fullest. nt

[ecstatic]

15. I would start preparing my haunt-list

:shrug:

[raccoon]

16. Shouldn't this be in Religion/Theology? nt

[mainer]

17. I might take more physical risks and not be so cautious

Right now, I believe that this is it, folks. The only life we get.

[hayu_lol]

18. If Harry Houdini couldn't make it back...

then no one can.

[philly_bob]

19. Not unless there was some info about how afterlife was organized.

I think, though, I'll UNREC this because it's so abstract and hypothetical -- college bull-session material. No disrespect, Straight Story.

[RagAss]

20. No, my death would.

[AlienGirl]

21. Not at all.

[rug]

22. People rarely change. Hence, hell.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. Fuck yeah.

Total epic crime spree time.

[FlyingSquirrel]

24. Depends. If I blow my brains out,

does something bad happen in my next life? 'cause just being dead isn't necessarily enough to keep me from doing it.