Here's an old chin-tickler: Whatsa gonnta happen when you a-die? The three big options are nothing, rebirth, and some sort of cloud party, but what about all the niggling little details? Like for the nothing people, is it just a full stop or is there a little byooooooo like when you unplug a TV? Or for reincarnation do you just close your eyes in one body and open them in the next, or is there some sort of crazy network of tubes and dimensions? That's what we want to know.
Vice: What do you think the very last moment of your life is like?
Miles: You get bombarded by images of the past.That's a pretty classic one. Do you think something happens after that?
I think it's a gradual process, decomposition of the body, the soul, whatever.
Vice: What do you think happens when we die?
Wiley: I'm not really sure. I sort of hope that we go into a weigh station where we figure out a lot of our mistakes and insecurities and fear and as we work through them we move on to the next spots like that Defending Your Life movie.Wait, so your version of heaven or whatever is based on an Albert Brooks movie?
Yeah we move on through some sort of weigh station where we become better people and we work through the issues we weren't able to work through in this life towards whatever might be next.OK. What happens after Judgment City?
I like to think it's some sort of Garden of Eden, some really nice spot but we could come back here and reincarnate into some other soul.
Vice: Do you believe in an afterlife? How do you imagine it?
Samantha: Yes. We are reincarnated, or we go on to the other dimension where we all ultimately came from in the beginning. It exists on the same wavelength and in the same physical space as earth, but we don't retain our physical forms in this other dimension. I think it's totally possible that we can watch the living like ghosts.OK. What if it goes the other way and we're reincarnated?
That's simple. We go into another body and start another life. I think it depends on how intact you are with your own soul. I think that your beliefs will guide what happens to you.Can we come back as animals?
Sure.
Vice: Do you believe in life after death? Tell me about it.
Zachary: I think time is a relative concept. Say if we were to get on a rocket ship traveling light speed. We would never get older—time would stop. So if our consciousness ceased to exist within the parameters that it currently does, then what we'd experience would be our last moment just going on forever, man. That's pretty deep.
I know.
Vice: What do you think happens in the moments after death?
Patricia: A lot of people say you shit your pants. I hope that doesn't happen.Sorry but it probably will. What about in metaphysical terms?
I'm sort of a reformed Christian, so I think there's something but I'm not sure what. I hope it's a party. I guess I believe in heaven—something that's just pure happiness.What's it look like?
When I was little, I imagined heaven was like Mt. Olympus. Everyone was dressed in togas, drinking some sort of celestial elixir.
Vice: What happens after you croak?
Duane: Either you come back as a lamp or a cat… What? Did you say a lamp?
Yup. I think objects have their own sentient intelligence, especially wood and shit. Wood is a living, breathing thing. There's so much work and energy put into people, and I don't believe it just goes to waste after you die. All of that time and energy must get put into something else.
Vice: Let's say a bus flattens you five minutes from now. What happens next?
Michael: I think that when we die that that is the end of everything we are. But I think that all of the atoms in our body get recycled into other life forms and other things and become other parts of reality, so in that sense we may live on in some way.Is it possible that our atoms could be arranged in the same way again?
Not really, but you can look at generations as being some sort of ongoing genetic reincarnation. I don't think evolution is over. I definitely don't think mankind is the end-all.What comes after humanity?
The next evolutionary step could be the merging of man and machine.Like Darth Vader?
Exactly. Or the Borg. We'll get computers fused into our heads and lose individual consciousness. We'll all become one gigantic human supercomputer.
Vice: Is there life after death? How does it work?
Charlie: Everything just kind of blacks out, like the end of a movie almost.So you don't believe in a hereafter?
I believe in reincarnation. But it would suck if you reincarnate into something like a fly.Yes it would, but at least it would be over quickly.
I suppose.
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Vice: What do you think the very last moment of your life is like?
Miles: You get bombarded by images of the past.That's a pretty classic one. Do you think something happens after that?
I think it's a gradual process, decomposition of the body, the soul, whatever.
Vice: What do you think happens when we die?
Wiley: I'm not really sure. I sort of hope that we go into a weigh station where we figure out a lot of our mistakes and insecurities and fear and as we work through them we move on to the next spots like that Defending Your Life movie.Wait, so your version of heaven or whatever is based on an Albert Brooks movie?
Yeah we move on through some sort of weigh station where we become better people and we work through the issues we weren't able to work through in this life towards whatever might be next.OK. What happens after Judgment City?
I like to think it's some sort of Garden of Eden, some really nice spot but we could come back here and reincarnate into some other soul.
Vice: Do you believe in an afterlife? How do you imagine it?
Samantha: Yes. We are reincarnated, or we go on to the other dimension where we all ultimately came from in the beginning. It exists on the same wavelength and in the same physical space as earth, but we don't retain our physical forms in this other dimension. I think it's totally possible that we can watch the living like ghosts.OK. What if it goes the other way and we're reincarnated?
That's simple. We go into another body and start another life. I think it depends on how intact you are with your own soul. I think that your beliefs will guide what happens to you.
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Sure.
Vice: Do you believe in life after death? Tell me about it.
Zachary: I think time is a relative concept. Say if we were to get on a rocket ship traveling light speed. We would never get older—time would stop. So if our consciousness ceased to exist within the parameters that it currently does, then what we'd experience would be our last moment just going on forever, man. That's pretty deep.
I know.
Vice: What do you think happens in the moments after death?
Patricia: A lot of people say you shit your pants. I hope that doesn't happen.Sorry but it probably will. What about in metaphysical terms?
I'm sort of a reformed Christian, so I think there's something but I'm not sure what. I hope it's a party. I guess I believe in heaven—something that's just pure happiness.What's it look like?
When I was little, I imagined heaven was like Mt. Olympus. Everyone was dressed in togas, drinking some sort of celestial elixir.
Vice: What happens after you croak?
Duane: Either you come back as a lamp or a cat… What? Did you say a lamp?
Yup. I think objects have their own sentient intelligence, especially wood and shit. Wood is a living, breathing thing. There's so much work and energy put into people, and I don't believe it just goes to waste after you die. All of that time and energy must get put into something else.
Vice: Let's say a bus flattens you five minutes from now. What happens next?
Michael: I think that when we die that that is the end of everything we are. But I think that all of the atoms in our body get recycled into other life forms and other things and become other parts of reality, so in that sense we may live on in some way.
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Not really, but you can look at generations as being some sort of ongoing genetic reincarnation. I don't think evolution is over. I definitely don't think mankind is the end-all.What comes after humanity?
The next evolutionary step could be the merging of man and machine.Like Darth Vader?
Exactly. Or the Borg. We'll get computers fused into our heads and lose individual consciousness. We'll all become one gigantic human supercomputer.
Vice: Is there life after death? How does it work?
Charlie: Everything just kind of blacks out, like the end of a movie almost.So you don't believe in a hereafter?
I believe in reincarnation. But it would suck if you reincarnate into something like a fly.Yes it would, but at least it would be over quickly.
I suppose.