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Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by IbnB: 11:17pm On Nov 21, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
Heaven, Hell, the Upper or Lower Astral, Another Body i.e. Reincarnation

You've got to realize though, that each of those locations mentioned up there is a world complete within itself, so as a newly-dead human you're totally spoilt for choice grin
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by WizEndy1: 11:17pm On Nov 21, 2025
Where does life go after death? That should be the question.
Life - plants and animals are nature, we all are the universe. We are made up of stuff the universe is made of.
You can ask this question because you have the capacity to have complex thoughts, other animals, as far as I know, don't bother about such questions.

Where does a dog go after death? Humans are no better than a dog in the grand scheme! We are all animals
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Kalulu44: 11:22pm On Nov 21, 2025
MikeofKd:
Well For the Christian religious folks it either heaven or hell , for others I don't know.
Everyone has a belief system subconsciously governing them, for the Christians the fear of hell frightens them to behave morally upright.
But there's no prove that heaven or hell exists , because if the body dies , then the spirit departs from the body , making the body an empty vessel. A spirit outside a body flows up air, it doesn't follow the laws of gravity , a spirit is similar to air precisely , it cannot hold it cannot feel , it cannot touch like a active human body can , so if hell was real how then do you explain fire burning a spirit , since the body is left back on earth , it doesn't make any sense.


In the other the concept of wether heaven or hell is real is purely theoretical , there's also no prove that heaven exists , some brainwashed Christian folks would say heaven is in the sky or above the earth , that's gibberish, backed up with no scientific accuracy or data.

But to answer your question , I don't think anyone fully understands the concept of death but I do to an extent , you see death just like time is an illusion, it's not real , there are traditional ways you can communicate with the dead which leaves you with only more curiosity that if death was actually real why then can we communicate with the dead.

Death is like a trance , leaving one experience ( physical ) to another experience ( spiritual )
I for one think when one dies , there's a switch between 2 worlds which are the ( physical and spiritual world)

so when one dies , he/she goes into the spirits world , now the spirits world is complex unlike the physical world , no one can describe what the spirit world looks like , even people that have died and came back , they didn't enter into the spirit world , you can't return once Ur in the spirit world.
Whatever happens in the spirit world stays in the spirit world but then there's reincarnation so can come back to earth as a human , animal or any living thing. The circle continues until God get bored and pulls the plug I guess.
Lolz! @God get bored and pulls the plug
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by chaloskyx: 11:26pm On Nov 21, 2025
The go to the ground and stay there grin
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by kunle75(m): 11:34pm On Nov 21, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
NO WHERE. YOU'RE DEAD YOU ROTTEN AND THATS IT
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Riskymarvelous(m): 11:41pm On Nov 21, 2025
Only God can clarify that
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by LOVEGINO(m): 11:41pm On Nov 21, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
when u di€, u go know.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Lanretoye(m): 11:42pm On Nov 21, 2025
Humans go to where they don’t know where they came from
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Nnamdipapa(m): 11:46pm On Nov 21, 2025
Same place they were before they were born.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by armyofone(m): 11:52pm On Nov 21, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
I want to believe that it goes somewhere yet I still think a person's consciousness quench (stop existence), body rot and mix with the earth.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Ewedegubbler: 11:54pm On Nov 21, 2025
Sambisa forest
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by DeepSight(m): 12:04am On Nov 22, 2025
Alusiizizi:
No satisfactory explanation of consciousness has yet been presented, indeed, the very definition of the word is hazy at best. Personally, I prefer Dr. Roger Penroses attempt at its description. For those who don't know, Dr. Penrose is a notable theoretical Physics and a Nobel laureate(2023 prize for his theory of trapped surfaces beyond the event horizon of a black hole, thus proving that, given the current understanding of General Relativity, a singularity must form at its center). Basically, his thesis centers around the theory of computation and the Godel incompleteness theorem, which basically asserts that all mathematical systems contains axioms that cannot be proven from within aforementioned mathematical system. What this essentially implies for computation machines, whether we are talking hard code software or even the most advanced A.I, is that the product of any computing machine must directly be correlated to an input, i.e. computing machines cannot create information that was not already fed into it.

Which brings us to the problem of humans. It is a matter of fact that humans routinely create new information, and this is where Penroses theses come to play: Human minds do not obey the Godel incompleteness theorem because the source of human consciousness is not a classical system but a quantum mechanical one, in other words, human minds are actually quantum computers and not classical computers.

Now, what does all this have to do with the final destination of human consciousness? Well, we know that something called "entanglement" is the very center of all quantum processes, which means that human minds, and therefore consciousness, is entangled with the rest of the universe, so perhaps, when a human dies, his body might die but his consciousness could very well linger on.
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This is an extremely interesting intervention you have made. I read it most carefully and with some level of delight.

I have just one question.

The analysis you have made is tied to physics. It is not my personal impression that the core consciousness of man is a physical thing or something produced by the interactions of physical things. My perception is that it belongs to an entirely non physical dimension.

What is your take on that.

Much respect.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Fenrir(m): 12:06am On Nov 22, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
Normally about 6 foot underground fella.
Hope that helps.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by DeepSight(m): 12:08am On Nov 22, 2025
josielewa:
THE TRUTH IS NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE GOING AFTER DEATH. ALL LIVING ORGANISM ARE JUST AN EMBODIMENT OF ENERGY. WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE YOU WERE BIRTHED? YOU DONT KNOW, LIKEWISEYOU NOT KNOWING WHERE YOU WILL GO WHEN YOU DIE. CREATOR HAS PUT CREATION INTO AN EVERLASTING LOOP CALLED REPRODUCTION. PEOPEL KEEPDYING AND PEOPLE KEEP GIVING BIRTH ON A DAILY.

WHAT BIRTHED YOU OR CREATED YOU IS THE MIXTURE OF CODE AND ENERGY. YOUR PARENTS EXCHANGED FLUIDS AND MADE YOU, SAME WAY ANIMALS EXCHANGE FLUIDS AND BIRTH THEIR OFFSPRING. WE ARE ALL ENERGY WALKING, TALKING AND DOING GREAT THINGS. WHEN YOU DIE, YOU ENERGY IS TAKEN BACK INTO THE EARTH AND YOUR PHYSICAL AWARENESS ( THIS WORLD) IS GONE. YOU BECOME MANURE, AND YOUR ENERGY FLOWS BACK INTO THE EARTH. WE ARE BEING RECYCLED. YOUR DEAD BODY IS GIVING TO THE EARTH AS DUST, SAND, MANURE ETC, PLANTS GET ENERGY FROM YOUR DEAD AND ROTTEN BODY, HAVE YOU TRIED LEAVING A DEAD BODY IN FIELD, WHAT HAPPENS, IT ROTS AND THE ENERGY IS TAKEN BY THE EARTH AND TRANSFORMED INTO ANOTHER TYPE OF ENERGY, MAYBE NEW PLANT, MUCOUS, FUNGUS ETC..

THE QUSETION ABOUT WHERE WE GO IS ANSWERED IN THIS WRITE UP, WE ARE GOING NO WHERE, WE ONLY TRANSFORM ENERGY THROUGH THE POWER OF THE EARTH(SOIL), WE ARE ALWAYS HERE 100% OF THE TIME. DO YOU IF YOU HAVE EATEN THE ENERGY FROM ANOTHER ANIMAL OR HUMAN, THE PLANT , ANIMALS AND HUMANS ALL GET AND GIVE ENERGY TO ONE ANOTHER.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT IT FROM THE SPIRITUAL OR RELIGIOUS ANGLE, I WILL SAY THAT DEPENDS ON YOUR BELIEF SYSTEM. BUT AS FAR AS AM CONCERNED, IF HUMANS DIE, THEY GO NOWHERE, THEY ARE STILL A PART OF THE UNIVERSE..

WHAT MADE YOU ASK THIS QUESTION IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE A HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS TO QUESTION THINGS, TAKE THAT AWAY AND YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN THE ANIMALS I THE FIELD, YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS WHAT IS BEGGING THIS QUESTION. WE ALL DONT ACTUALLY DIE, WE JUST ADD TO WHATS INTHE UNIVERSE, WE ARE GOING NOWHERE....
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The problem with your analysis is that it is limited to what happens to the body.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by tunapawizzy: 12:08am On Nov 22, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
You will have to die first, to get an answer to that question
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by jubrilELsudan: 12:13am On Nov 22, 2025
INSIDE YA NYASH

Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by tunapawizzy: 12:18am On Nov 22, 2025
If you have no knowledge/memory of where you were before the start of your life(i.e. when you were born or when you were formed in your mothers womb), then it would be fair to say, when that life ends(after death), no one can tell if it all ends there or there's some form of continuity in some other realm.

Just live and enjoy the consciousness you have now. Spread love and stop worrying about where you will go when your time is up.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by MCentral: 12:31am On Nov 22, 2025
KingAzubuike:
There is a parallel universe out there. Because energy cannot be destroyed, life continues in the parallel universe. The kind of life you will continue there depends on the choices you made prior to your death in this dimension.

For example, if you are young and died from a car crash on earth, in a parallel universe you would have remained indoors instead of going out that day. Meaning you would not be involved in a car crash.

If you died from old age on earth, in a parallel universe, you'd roll back the years albeit, certain decisions you made on this dimension would be different from the choices and decisions you made in that parallel universe. For example, I a parallel universe, you would have married a different woman.
Abacha would bot have died and would have still been ruling nigeria.
Or Nigeria would have still been under the British colony.
We might even still be in 1920 instead of 2025
Flying cars might be existing in a parallel universe.
Your mother might have married a different person and hence the way you look in this dimension might be different from the way you would have looked in another.
Sounds like a neat theory, But can/will you remember your past life when u enter the new dimension?
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by fredopareto(m): 12:37am On Nov 22, 2025
Alusiizizi:
No satisfactory explanation of consciousness has yet been presented, indeed, the very definition of the word is hazy at best. Personally, I prefer Dr. Roger Penroses attempt at its description. For those who don't know, Dr. Penrose is a notable theoretical Physics and a Nobel laureate(2023 prize for his theory of trapped surfaces beyond the event horizon of a black hole, thus proving that, given the current understanding of General Relativity, a singularity must form at its center). Basically, his thesis centers around the theory of computation and the Godel incompleteness theorem, which basically asserts that all mathematical systems contains axioms that cannot be proven from within aforementioned mathematical system. What this essentially implies for computation machines, whether we are talking hard code software or even the most advanced A.I, is that the product of any computing machine must directly be correlated to an input, i.e. computing machines cannot create information that was not already fed into it.

Which brings us to the problem of humans. It is a matter of fact that humans routinely create new information, and this is where Penroses theses come to play: Human minds do not obey the Godel incompleteness theorem because the source of human consciousness is not a classical system but a quantum mechanical one, in other words, human minds are actually quantum computers and not classical computers.

Now, what does all this have to do with the final destination of human consciousness? Well, we know that something called "entanglement" is the very center of all quantum processes, which means that human minds, and therefore consciousness, is entangled with the rest of the universe, so perhaps, when a human dies, his body might die but his consciousness could very well linger on.
waste of time.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by chexyincx(m): 12:44am On Nov 22, 2025
Hade to wait for their judgements
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by grandstar(m): 12:50am On Nov 22, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
Thanks for asking this question.
When I was young around 12 years of age, I stumbled upon a pamplet in my older sister's room.

The topic was : Where are the Dead

I started reading it and it was there I saw the first ever Bible verse I was to ever memorise:" A living dog is better than a dead lion. The living know that they shall die, but the dead are conscious of nothing at all." (Eccl 9:4,5) It is even more detailed at Eccl 9:10).

So, the dead are conscious of nothing at all. It makes sense. God told Adam and Eve that they would both die of they ate of the tree of good and bad. Adam and Eve both ate of the tree and God told him that "dust you are and to dust he shall return." (Genesis 3:19). Life was a gift from and he forsook it the moment they disobeyed God.

To learn more, read this:https://www.jw.org/en/library/brochures/spirits-of-the-dead/

if you have further questions, you're free to ask me here.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by dequir:
A man once alive, lives eternally. Our living soul, which is our real self, enveloped within a carnal body, can never die. Because it is an extension of the infinite God who created it.

For it is said at creation, that God breathed into the nostrils of the of the form of a man which He moulded with the dust of the earth, and it became a living soul.

Therefore death is only an immediate transition from one state of existence to another. That is, from the physical to the spiritual realm, which the physical eyes cannot perceive.

As to where does the soul goes after physical death. It has several dimensions, and depends on the era at which you die, and the moral state of the soul at death.

Whether you believe it or not, there are two final resting locations for a dead soul, called Heaven and Hell, also called Paradise and Gehenna. But there is another underworld location called Sheol, which is an interim resting place for all deads which have not been admitted into any of the two final resting locations. Additionally, there are still some dead souls roaming the earth, living in their graves, not admitted to neither Sheol, nor Paradise or Gehenna, for what reason which I don't know.

But all in all, it is God that determines where the soul will be at death.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Ponmoalata: 1:50am On Nov 22, 2025
To God.

"ALL SOULS ARE MINE"- Ezekiel 18 v 4
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by TenQ: 2:11am On Nov 22, 2025
Sirchiboy:
When people die. Where do they go. I want to know.
When people die, they go to the place of the dead.

The Bible says that the place of the Dead is divided into two compartments
1. The place Abraham is
2. The place called Hell
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by BItt: 2:23am On Nov 22, 2025
Just live your life
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by SkengRay:
Dtruthspeaker:
If truly you went to school, then you would have known that answering questions is part of education.

But rather you have kept on running from answering the questions because you real eyes that it makes you look Stu....

So, if you think you are intelligent and educated do inlighten us and answer the questions

As a human being are you not conscious and have no consciousness ?

And do you have a mind? Is your mind conscious?
You aren't willing to learn if I start explaining to you you'd start getting defensive and refuting what you don't know. The human mind is made up of the conscious, subconscious and unconscious.
‎ The conscious mind is the part you are aware of, the one that makes logical decisions , thinks and learns and it only processes what you focus on. It has very small capacity and represents 5% of the human mind
‎ The subconscious mind runs in the background it controls most of our lives. It controls emotions, habits, long term memory , breathing (We breathe mostly unconsciously). It doesn't learn through logic like the conscious mind it just obeys.
‎ The unconscious mind is the deepest layer, you can't be aware of what is stored here.eg childhood trauma, instincts, deep emotional winds you don't even remember. It manifests through Dreams, intuition , psychological defenses, what can of people you attract or repel. This is the part that shapes your destiny without you even knowing. The conscious mind represents 5% while the subconscious and unconscious represent 95%. The subconscious and unconscious mind controls 95% of your life with you even knowing, most people like you think they control their Conscious mind but they don't like Carl Jung’s Said "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate," . I hope this answers your questions I've broken down to layman terms so you can't understand. I bet you don't understand What the mind is? You are having a convo with someone who spent a quarter of his life studying the human psyche so you need to be logical and not by showing cognitive dissonance to protect your Rigid Dogma
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by kgr8mike(m): 2:37am On Nov 22, 2025
They simply go back to there maker and give account of the time that was allocated to them to live here and they will be rewarded accordingly.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by chysam: 2:48am On Nov 22, 2025
Cum4me:
explain further about consciencness and why my ancestors consciousness not in existence after they've gone
your ancestors watch you daily and communicate with you Someday you will be an ancestor and watch younger ones of your family too from the spiritual realm.
Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by mukthar2000(m): 3:14am On Nov 22, 2025
Wait for ur own time, by then u can tell us better where u go.
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