What would it mean for “me” to continue or cease to exist after death?

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I have a question about death that I can’t stop thinking about: When we die, where do we go? And what will we be? Will we have a body? Will we have eyes and be able to see with them? Will we simply be a feeling, or some kind of entity we cannot possibly imagine or something like wind or a breeze? Could we become nothing more than a cell or a certain feeling without a body? And will I still know that this is me jeje? Will I still know that I was a human being and that I had a life, memories, and a personality? What happens to my memories? Will they disappear completely? And if my memories, personality, and body all disappear, then what would actually be left of me?
Sometimes I also think: Where were we before we were born? I don’t know where I was, and I don’t even have any sense that I existed before I was born. So could death be something similar? Or could we move into a state or form of existence that we simply cannot imagine because all of our ideas and perceptions are based on the life we know now?
And every time I try to answer one question, another even more complicated question appears. So I’m not looking for a ready-made answer. I want to understand whether there is actually any way for us to know what happens to the “me” after death, and what it really means for me to exist—or not exist—afterwards.

Note: English isn’t my first language so I used AI to translate my original thoughts into English. The questions and ideas are entirely my own.

Posted Aug 13, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

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