when we die, we are at the end of time we exist in time when we lived we existed, that is not something that can be erased so, when death occurs we are taken out of the simulation the chess game, if you will we remain, history is concrete there is no denying what has existed so therefore we are forever however, my worry is consciousness that I think is tied to current/active time as we perceive it when we are “alive” but what happens to that perception when we are out of time…
notes… as I am not a believer (no offense or shade to anyone who is, I am glad for anyone who has found their answer, truly)… for me I have not found the answer and I am both terrified and cool with it… my logic tells me there is nothing I can do but my rubik’s loving brain that never rests screams at me otherwise. If my death is the end I will have no consciousness and be totally gone but yet the universe did choose to create me… but will I retain any of that? probably not… it is a daunting thought that haunts me, in moments shakes me, in other moments I just forget, we feel like we are going to be forever, but everything has an end… I don’t want to be in eternal nothingness.
Shades of My Garden 