39,327
edits
Cessation of Existence: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (Mass update links) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 10:
Either there is no afterlife, or there is, but the poor sap's [[Our Souls Are Different|soul]] [[Deader Than Dead|was destroyed.]]
This may very well be a reason death is such a common [[Primal Fear]], and seems to be a major reason for the creation of many religions; after all, many major religions teach that life exists after death in some form. Then again, [[The Anti
Not to be confused with [[The Nothing After Death]], where you still exist, if only as a mere shade floating between nothing and nowhere.
Line 26:
** And possibly Super Buu when Kid Buu is born, since they are implied by the former to be separate entities.
* In ''[[D Gray Man]]'', it's stated that this is what's believed to happen to the soul of an akuma who is destroyed by any means other than through the use of Innocence.
* In ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', this is basically what happens whenever one's [[Life Energy|Power of Existence]] is lost (usually after being consumed by a Crimson Lord). If one's Power of Existence dwindles and fades away, they become increasingly lethargic and slow to react, while their presence starts to go by unnoticed by others. Eventually, they just vanish, [[Ret
* In the ''[[Monster Rancher (Anime)|Monster Rancher]]'' anime, becoming a Lost Disc and Monsters fusing together are portrayed as this.
Line 61:
** Since the afterlife is the dead existing as ghosts, unable to affect the real world, and always feeling that everything around them is not real, they actually wish for the cessation.
* In the ''[[Deverry]]'' series, this is the ultimate punishment for the principal antagonist of the first four books. Everyone else gets to reincarnate.
* In a story by [[Stanislaw Lem]], a [[Ridiculously
* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s story "The Martyr", a race of advanced aliens has been systematically steering humans away from research into psychic phenomena to spare them from the knowledge that the aliens have an afterlife but humans don't.
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', Iorek insists that there is no afterlife for his people ("We live and then we die and that is all,"), but it's not clear whether this is true or simply his society's belief.
Line 75:
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', this doesn't appear to be the standard death experience (well, as far as we know; our only reliable witness of the afterlife died under ''very'' unusual circumstances), but it's what happens to Fred. When Illyria takes over her body, it completely devours her soul, quite explicitly ruling out any possibility that Fred could come [[Back From the Dead]].
** Considering that Fred was meant to return in Season Six by her and Illyria splitting in two (had the show not been cancelled), this may not have actually have been what happened, and the person who claimed this may be wrong. In the 'After the Fall' comics, it seemed as though Fred HAD returned, occasionally taking over the body inhabited by Illyria - however, it was later revealed that Illyria was faking it, as she apparently wanted Fred to be back.
* This, along with [[Ret
* A later episode of ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' had Neelix discover, much to his horror, that there was nothing after death. However, he was ''clinically'' dead but successfully rescusitated with medical intervention; the question is whether or not that counts as "dead enough" that he ''should'' have seen the afterlife.
** When [[Great Gazoo|Q]] spent some (involuntary) time as a human in ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]],'' he seemed particularly concerned about dying, convinced that he would simply wink out of existence. This and the above example suggest that either there is no afterlife in the [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] universe, or that the afterlife is so mysterious even the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|sufficiently advanced Q]] don't know about it.
Line 122:
*** Depending on which group you ask, at least. There are those who believe the "annihilation" results from being condemned to hell.
* Also in the [[Egyptian Mythology]] you are judged after your dead by a council of deities and if you fail they throw your Ib (that is one of the components of the spirit for the Egyptians and represent the existence and immortality of the being) to Ammit, a soul-eater chimera ceasing the existence of the judged.
* Naturalistic atheists and [[Useful Notes/Pantheism|pantheists]] usually ascribe to this. [[The Anti
** Then again, some do. That sort tends to make up the majority of the various [[Transhuman|Transhumanist]] movements.
* This is the viewpoint of the Classical Epicureans, who did not fear death, as they would not be around to experience their own, and knew that others would not suffer in an afterlife.
Line 195:
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Due to [[Never Say Die]], the Decepticons from ''Transformers G1'' regularly threatened their opponents with "oblivion", implying that they and/or Cybertronians in general did not believe in an afterlife. Note that this was before 'sparks' became a part of the franchise's mythology.
* The [[Fairly Oddparents]] had an episode where Timmy wished he was never born and was slated to be [[Ret
* In the [[Series Finale]] of ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' it's pointed out via extreme [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] that anytime a show ends everyone and everything in the universe it takes place in ceases to exist.
Line 209:
[[Category:This Index Does Not Exist]]
[[Category:Afterlife Tropes]]
[[Category:Cessation Of Existence]][[Category:Pages with comment tags]]
| |||