The Afterlife Tierlist

I rank the possible scenarios after we die in a tierlist.

Books/lectures referenced:

Death - Shelly Kagan
Effects of the availability of rewarding septal and hypothalamic stimulation on bar pressing for food under conditions of deprivation. - Aryeh Routtenberg and Janet Lindy
What is hell, exactly? - Robyn J. Whitaker
A Companion to Philosophy of Religion - Charles Taliaferro et al.
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? - Nick Bostrom
Open Individualism series (via YouTube) - Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity - Thomas W. Clark
I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics - Daniel Kolak
The Egg - Andy Weir

NOTE: at 15:59 I mention the band King Crimson losing all its founding members. This is a mistake, since Robert Fripp was a constant member.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Nothing
6:32 - Heaven
10:12 - Hell
12:10 - Ghost
13:48 - Reincarnation
17:50 - Infinite Loop (Eternal Recurrence)
21:17 - Simulation
27:54 - One With Everything
36:00 - Conclusion

Music List:

[planetisethehornets]

What bums me out about the idea of nothingness is the idea that I’ll never know what happens AFTER I’m gone. It’s like the ultimate FOMO

[noobyplayz]

imagine being born, someone drops you by accident, trips, lands on you, you die (after like 20 seconds of being born) and infinite loop happens

[memeymeme]

I like to believe that, in afterlife, you are basically in your own personal world.
You can shape it into any form, forge any kind of events happening in it. You can even simply create an exact replica of the world you died in. And you can do whatever you want in this world: actively live in it or watch from the side.
I like this concept

[RMXMUSIC-juod]

The terrifying thing is that we don't even remember how we get into the world, its like, we just found ourselves alive, and our only evidence is the momentarily of living.

[pyran]

being a ghost alone is D tier but if your homies also become ghosts when they die would be S tier

[rfn]

infinite loop is for sure D tier.
imagine dying at birth, you're just being spawn camped for the rest of eternity

[mayochupenjoyer]

the reason why nothingness is comforting to me is because after i die, i will not exist to contemplate anything. its not like i’ll be in eternal darkness, or that ill be deprived of experience, because i’ll cease to exist, and therefore cease experiencing anything. that would be fundamentally impossible. it’s just the end, but that’s a good thing

[WorkWaveAmbience]

the Universe is energy. Consciousness is energy. But, energy can exist in different states. The question is not what happens after we die, but what state our consciousness transforms to.

[enavoid]

"I like existing a lot, but this is also the perspective of a guy who exists, which is definitely biased."
This made me laugh

[madalenateixeira]

i feel like a perfect heaven does not allow for boredom, if it's boring it's not perfect

[minilabyrinth]

You forgot to talk about quantum immortality!
I could be wrong about it, but my understanding is that it says this:
There are an infinite amount of parallel universes, and consciousness cannot experience nonexistence, so since we are conscious right now, we will live forever. At the point of our death, our consciousness shifts to a different parallel universe where we didn't die, and it keeps doing that. This happens for every one, they all get "funelled" thru parallel universes into ones where we extend life expectancy into the hundreds, then reverse aging, then eventually become immortal.

[jayknight]

I feel like being born into a world with so much uncertainty and suffering just to die is more cruel than any hell i can imagine.

[BruhBruh-wszu]

I like how something as profound as life after death can be confined to something as simple as a tier list

[BritMonkey]

The best afterlife is the ancient Mesopotamian afterlife where everyone goes to a desert of eternal twilight and eats sand.

[ilikes-]

The thing that always comforted me, in a weird way, is when you are dead, you are the opposite of alive. For example, try to think about what you remember before you were born, and it is the same feeling. You never felt bad, remorse, happiness, sadness, or hopelessness. It’s a rare phenomenon to exist, that’s why it’s so important to just experience things. Because it’s such a rare opportunity to be alive, let alone be conscious. Try to live life the way you want. Treat others well because no matter what we all die. Death is unbiased. It’s not an evil thing. It’s just the opposite of what we know. And what we know is what we experience. Nothing lasts forever which in my eyes, is beautiful.

[kato_dsrdr]

Man, I sure hope there's some sort of spectator mode after dying so I can at least know whatever is happening in the world.

[isaiahcampbell]

That 6.5 minute discussion on nothingness went so hard, I forgot that this was a tierlist

[somebodyrandom]

I've noticed a big hole in the "you stop existing forever" scenario:
There was already a potentially infinite period of time where you didn't exist, which ended when you were born.

If you return to the state you were in before birth after you die, what's stopping you from existing again?

[ecuadorcookie]

The thing that terrifies me about death is that I’m dead forever.. like no matter what happens after death I’m dead forever. I’ll never get to feel the same as I do right now. And what are we going to do for the rest of our life’s dead?? It’s not like we’ll ever reach an end.. 😕

[shaed]

There's also the idea that there could be a different life experience and afterlife for every individual entity in every possible reality