How can you comprehend and understand what it is like be dead. (In an Atheistic view)
Assuming there is no soul, and that there is no life after death, how can you describe or explain what it is like to have no consciousness?
Would you see a void of blackness? Where would your consciousness be? Would it just evaporate in thin air as if it never existed?
These are very frightening thoughts... but they can be all too true.
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”- Epicurus. So Epicurus basically said, when life exists, death doesn't exist, but when death does exist, life doesn't exist, so what you would see when you die is non-existence. But that living feeling or that "I am" is only just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. (But there is hope that this energy will still apply to the law "Energy cannot disappear, it can only be transferred.") Try to think about how it was to not exist before you were born, because it would be that exact same "nothing" feeling after you departure from the living. I once wasn't. I am. I am not. I don't care. 1
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It can't be described. It is nothing. You won't see blackness, you won't see. You won't be. It is impossible to comprehend what it would be like to not exist, as our entire existence is surrounded by input(sight, sound, touch, etc). To no longer exist, no longer have thought, being, or input, cannot be understood. The question is kind of like asking 'What color would the sky be if it didn't exist.' The question is unanswerable. 1
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