What if this is a possibility?

[Haveaniceday]

When we die, we instantly enter another universe in which everything is the same except we're alive.

Even to the extent that a line of possible events is avoided to allow a person to live.

E.g. A to a person's conscious lying on their death bed, something happens that allows them to get spontaneously better, hence while they die in their current universe, they feel they've never passed and merely got better.

Could be the same with old age, maybe eventually the consciousness ends up in a universe where a 'cure' is found for old age etc.

I've been almost killed dozens of times and thought about this very question.

[Best Buckeye]

if the rebirth is instantaneous then how does one know they died?

[JBaney45]

Originally Posted by Best Buckeye

if the rebirth is instantaneous then how does one know they died?

Thats the point, you wouldn't. Which is why you wouldn't know that this is going on. It's just sort of deep imaginative stuff that would go along with any other sort of parallel universe theories, (ala a unquantifiable number of universes that each have at least 1 variable thats different from the next "closest" universe allowing for an infinite amount of variability)

[jwinslow]

I think people would catch on once they started living to 150 however many lives down the road.

[leroyjenkins]

Originally Posted by jwinslow

I think people would catch on once they started living to 150 however many lives down the road.

So which life is JoPa in?

[buckeyegrad]

Originally Posted by Haveaniceday

When we die, we instantly enter another universe in which everything is the same except we're alive.

Even to the extent that a line of possible events is avoided to allow a person to live.

E.g. A to a person's conscious lying on their death bed, something happens that allows them to get spontaneously better, hence while they die in their current universe, they feel they've never passed and merely got better.

Could be the same with old age, maybe eventually the consciousness ends up in a universe where a 'cure' is found for old age etc.

I've been almost killed dozens of times and thought about this very question.

If the consciousness is what is transferred, which is what I think you are saying, then what exactly is it being transferred to? One's duplicate in the other universe? If so, what happens to the original consciousness of the duplicate? Do the two merge unknowingly or does one displace the other, in which case what happens to the other?

[Deety]

All your conciousnesses are belong to me.

['BusNative]

This has already happened to me... however, my freaking BP rep reset when I came back

[Taosman]

Originally Posted by Deety

All your conciousnesses are belong to me.

[Taosman]

It could also be possible that we have it all wrong. We could just be like......

[Best Buckeye]

Originally Posted by JBaney45

Thats the point, you wouldn't. Which is why you wouldn't know that this is going on. It's just sort of deep imaginative stuff that would go along with any other sort of parallel universe theories, (ala a unquantifiable number of universes that each have at least 1 variable thats different from the next "closest" universe allowing for an infinite amount of variability)

Then how do you know it isn't happening right now? maybe we do instanteously come right back to life as infants all over again. for that matter how do you know you came out of your mother? maybe a woman's vagina is kind of like a portal like in stargate and when you die you just "pop" out of the portal.
It is as possible as what you suggest.

[Taosman]

"Death can be a teacher. Only in facing death, those of loved ones and our own, can we be free from the fear of it and learn the lessons it has to teach about life."