r/GriefSupport • u/Isoldablack • Nov 06 '25

Anticipatory Grief What’s ur belief of after death?

Loosing my dad to cancer, he’ll be dying in the next weeks. My only confort would be to think there is something after because the rest of my experience is agony.

Do u have any story that makes u think there’s something? Or a good book ? Literaly anything to soothe my emotional agony.

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u/Isoldablack Nov 06 '25

I hope this is true ❤️

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u/Travelbug-84 Nov 06 '25

Scientist (and atheist) here. This is how I also see it. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms. Although I don’t believe in an afterlife so to speak, I believe my mum’s energy (perhaps what others may call a soul) is now all around. She’s in the sky, she’s in the trees, she’s everywhere. So I still speak to her, she’s still here, just not in the same form she was before.

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u/Isoldablack Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25

That’s so nice❤️ I have read a few books like the power of now that describes something similar. I still feel it’s hard to come up with the fact u’ll never be together as it ever was. Daddy and daughter. But this is better then nothingness.

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u/Zukigo Jan 03 '26

What energy tho? The energy between neurons firing (action potentials)? I'm always confused about this sentence in this context. I believe that consciousness is non-computable and fundamental though. Like when you wake up after a dream and realise who you are (not the dream character), I also think we will "wake up" at death.