What happens when you die?

[Laughing]

To add to my story and I didn’t put this in before because it’s very personal, but we’re all being sensible so I’ll share. I watched someone dying a year or two back, over a period of a few days, and one day he met and talked to all of the people who had been close to him including many who were long dead. He even introduced some of them to me, obviously he was in and out of consciousnes, but I could see he’d made his peace. There is obvious scientific explanations for this.

But I think the old lady was maybe doing the same, just how was I drawn into it and it became my perceived reality as well as hers. And why did it take me years to realise it.

It's quite difficult to explain. My mum died a few years ago from brain cancer and in the final weeks she kept asking my dad who the man standing next to her was. There was no one there.

There are lots of odd things happen in the world. Most can be readily explained away, some not so much. That doesn't mean there isn't a rational explanation, it just means I don't have it.

There's a book the 5 people I met on the way to heaven which closely resembles what you describe is a long time since I read it but I remember being captivated by it at the time

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

In my father in laws final days he kept seeing dead relatives by his bed.
He couldn't understand what they were doing there.

 

[Heam44]

I love stories like these too. The problem I have is a rationalize everything. As I am reading your account and Ingleby's my brains starts to automatically fit scientific explanation around the story. Your's has quite an easy explanation, Ingleby's not so much.

I thought Ingelby may have simply been dreaming, possibly assisted by strong medication.

 

[Laughing]

I thought Ingelby may have simply been dreaming, possibly assisted by strong medication.

Thats always possible, Heam. I prefer to take the account at face value in the first instance. If Ingleby wasn't dreaming it makes it difficult to explain, if he was, the death of the old lady just becomes a coincidence.

 

[Trug]

My sister, a nurse, once saw an old lady walking along the corridor to the toilet in the RVI. She knew that the lady concerned was bed bound and couldn't possibly have got out of bed. She went to the toilet but there was no body there. She went to the old lady's bed and saw that she had died.
My friend told me that as a child he lived in a terraced house next door to a spiritualist church in Spennymoor. He said he was always seeing people in his room. Some would walk through the wall into the church next door.

 

[Osboro]

Were these people in the nuddy as even the silliest can't believe clothes have ghosts too, surely.

 

[BoroGold]

When the big "Game Over" sign pops up it means .. literally .. Game Over .. your eyes open and you realise it's all been a simulation and in fact we're living 20,000 years in the future on the Planet Zob.

I've always found the simulation theory argument seductive .. mathematically it "makes sense" even if it doesn't in real life ..

I don't know. A part of me has come to think / hope that reality might have an ace up it's sleeve .. if we live in an infinite multiverse .. then out there there are an infinite number of versions of us .. may be an infinite number of versions of the consciousness that makes "me" me and when when one conscious experience ends then we "flip" into another and just carry on. We might all be dying every moment and flipping through the multiverse as we speak .. I wonder if there'll be one where Britt scores 50 in a season for us ...

Anyway, it's not a "belief" .. just .. you know ..

"I wonder if there'll be one where Brit scores 50 in a season for us ?" you had me thinking you might have something in your ..just..you know.. until Brit came into the equation and made it all monumentally unbelievable.

 

[Heam44]

Thats always possible, Heam. I prefer to take the account at face value in the first instance. If Ingleby wasn't dreaming it makes it difficult to explain, if he was, the death of the old lady just becomes a coincidence.

Yeah I’m not suggesting for a second that Ingleby was making it up. Simply that he may have been mistaken that he was awake, but instead it was actually a very vivid dream possibly assisted by illness / medication etc.

Also the lady may not have died, and had simply been allowed to check out of the hospital prior to him waking up, either as she had recovered from her illness or possibly just for the day as it was Christmas Day.

Just trying to provide a simple alternative explanation as opposed to a “sciencey” one.

 

[Laughing]

Yeah I’m not suggesting for a second that Ingleby was making it up. Simply that he may have been mistaken that he was awake, but instead it was actually a very vivid dream possibly assisted by illness / medication etc.

Also the lady may not have died, and had simply been allowed to check out of the hospital prior to him waking up, either as she had recovered from her illness or possibly just for the day as it was Christmas Day.

Just trying to provide a simple alternative explanation as opposed to a “sciencey” one.

yeah I know you weren't suggesting he was lying, I simply meant that you start from a position that what he is remembering is what happened, and try and explain that away first.

 

[A]

My only answer and solace to this quandary is