What happens when we die?

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Objection, you Honor!.....speculation.

Yes slave, it's speculation, but what else is there? Will science ever be able to answer questions about consciousness when all we have to examine it is consciousness itself. However, I do have ideas about it which are personal to me and come from my own experience. The radio receiver concept is a bit New Agey for me, although it explains a lot. I think the truth of the matter is very much more complicated.

Does the first of a species get old memories? Does the last of a species get reincarnated?

We rot in the ground and fertilize the grass the very essence that kept us animated is no more and joins with the rest of the universe. If there is an afterlife i think it is like being aleep forever until reincarnation occurs and perhaps people on the spectrum are people reincarnated from animals like cats. "meow"

I doubt you have the patience to read the material on this subject that I do. Most people don't. I probably couldn't get you halfway through basic remedial material on the subject before you got fed up with it and took a nap. I am a cure for insomnia. Anyway, if you can get yourself through the basics, I am confident that you would find neuroscience to be a satisfying and fun subject to explore. You just have to cut your teeth. Get your first taste of blood.

Not really. Whenever I find a new aspect of something that I thought I knew most of what there was to know about and realize that there is more to it than I thought, I roll my eyes, sigh, and promise to get a good night's sleep before starting on a new task. I'm telling you, making progress in getting a grasp on a new subject can make you dizzy, occasionally nauseous, but it leaves you with a smug sense of predatory satisfaction when you have made some new inroads.

William, thanks for your reply. I've begun a new thread as my train of though would be off topic.

New thread on consciousness

We go on to the 'other side', be it Heaven, Hell, another dimension, etc

- I could only believe this if I wasn't concerned with evidence to support my thoughts. It would also help because it's some what of a comforting thought. But I don't tolerate it.

We simply stop existing. Worm food.

- This is me. Nothing I've come across suggests anything but this. Unless you're cremated in which case you aren't worm food.

Our consciousness is recycled into another being. Reincarnation of some sort.

- Reincarnation makes no sense. If this were true, then there would be no increase in population? Unless we extend this to the point of "our consciousness is recycled into multiple bodies". Again though, no evidence so I won't acknowledge it as truth.
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anything but the middle option is created through what people think. I don't think the opinions of people matters when trying to find truth in the world. In anything, it's a counter productive method.

I came to an early conclusion at the age of around 5-6 that there is nothing beyond your own consciousness. At least for you.

thought went along the lines of (with images in my mind):

Me is me, I'm gone. (imagine me).

Earth is the earth, it's gone. (imagine space/earth).

space is space, it's empty. (Image the castness of space).

I'm 24 years old now, and I've come across (as I've said) nothing that has changed my thoughts as a child. I'm content with being here now, what a blessing it is to be alive if only once.
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If our consciousness doesn't exist in our brains, and isn't created in our brains, then how is it we can be changed depending on the condition of the brain? The brain holds us, we were created there. When the brain is gone, so are we.

dank, I think it is an over simplification to claim that consciousness does not exist in the brain. A lot of people want things to be concrete, black and white, yes, no. I wonder how death relates to the laws of thermodynamics: energy is never lost. I suppose you think that old body just heats the soil. To be sure the human body has the energy and generates the electricity which makes consciousness possible. Perhaps we can define life as having that energy. Where it all comes from and goes to, that is quite something.

This is an article from a popular magazine,. nothing academic, but it is nice and easy to understand.
The brain damaged thinker