Welcome to the Afterlife http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286 Moonlightwriter Hey guys, you have just died and then you wake up in the afterlife. A hard survival-of-the-fittest sort of world, nothing you expected. You realized you were going to die a couple of seconds before hand, but death was inevitable. Now what would you feel? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:37:42 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1143564 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1143564 inthemargins Like stringing together a bunch of expletives. XD Well, actually, it'd depend on how I died. What kind of body/form do I have/am I taking? Considering that I don't believe in an afterlife, I'd be really suspicious. I'm the type of person who'd rather let nature take its course (I don't believe in most forms of medical intervention) and I would honestly feel like I was cheated out of a normal life-death cycle. How your characters react probably depends on what kind of belief system they're working with, and how they died... Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:02:29 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1144781 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1144781 Lady_Indis_Dress I'll go with inthemargins' expletives. Isn't that kind of what this life is, in a more technologically advanced way? I'd have some questions for whoever turned out to be in charge. And I'd try to learn as much as I could as quickly as I could so that I could survive. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:58:39 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1145965 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1145965 Moonlightwriter Well my MC died when she was a teenager, but she knew she was going to die a couple of minutes beforehand. She was killed by someone in the afterlife, so she knows there is one. But she's usually pretty sudued, so i don't think she'd go totally off the handle and start screaming. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:16:27 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1147724 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1147724 Lady_Indis_Dress Well I wouldn't be screaming. I'd be saying the bad words quietly to myself. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:15:19 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1147816 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1147816 water2770 I myself would... be confused and look around and try to figure how things work. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:41:01 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1152923 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1152923 MalcolmCooms I would be freaked out, take deep breaths and try and come to grips with the situation. This situation being: 1) I'm not actually dead. I still exist, I just can't react with the world I previously lived in the same way. 2) I could obviously interact to some extent, since somebody in the afterlife killed me. 3) There are other people here, so there's no worry about being alone and finally, most importantly in my view, 4) Eventually all of my loved ones will die anyway so it's not like we'll never meet again. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:10:45 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1154786 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/the-polling-booth/threads/50286?page=1#forum_thread_comment_1154786