Atheists: What do you say about someone who dies?

[397]

The major faiths tell us that this is an ultimate cause and affect, a consequence whist in the flesh. (Because we are blind, dead, asleep, or what the Hindu's refer to as being in a state of Avidya/Ignorance)
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(Collosions 3:3)
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Ephesians chapter 5.
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

â—„ Mark 8:18 â–º
Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember?
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Buddhism
Avidyā (Sanskrit; Pāli: avijjā; Tibetan phonetic: ma rigpa) is commonly translated as "ignorance" or "delusion".

Hinduism
He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the physical body for it, and goes through innumerable births, is like one who wanders all over the world in a dream. Thus, realizing the Self would only be like waking up from the dream­wanderings.
Sri Ramana Maharshi (December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950)
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[Idiot]

Let those close to her know she will be missed, that you are sorry for the loss. Avoid saying anything you feel is a lie, but this is a sensitive time so debunking what others are saying about heaven and all that probably is not appropriate with the grieving relatives and friends right now..

[Symos]

I usually try to console someone by saying that the lost loved one is no longer able to feel pain or suffering. Helps me.

[Old]

"I am unsure if there actually is an afterlife, I do not really consider myself an Atheist, because I just do not know, and I dont think anyone does for sure."

You're wrong about that. Not everyone in the world is a moron. For example, are bullsh!t fantasies real or are bullsh!t fantasies bullsh!t? Normal people have figured it out. Bullsh!t fantasies, including the ridiculous cowardly heaven fantasy, are bullsh!t.

"On the facebook page, people were saying she is in a better place now"

On the facebook page idiots were acting like idiots.

Don't talk about stupid things. Just say "I'm very sorry". That's it. Don't be an idiot.

At my mom's wake (what a waste of money by the way) an airhead said how nice for my mom to have a wonderful casket (another waste of money). I wanted to tell the idiot "She's dead you f*cking moron."

[Zane]

(s)he lived a good life, and they made me better for it. If you ever need anything, feel free to ask me.

[Martin]

You don't say ANYTHING. You LISTEN, you let them grieve, and you give them a shoulder to cry on, if necessary. ANYTHING ELSE, especially this religious mumbo jumbo, is just HYPOCRISY anyway.

[Everard]

It depends on the circumstances.

When my father died last year I wasn't as sad as if he'd died three years earlier.
Three years earlier we could have a 30 minute phone conversation.
By the time he died at 96 he was barely capable of 5 minutes.

I miss the 93 year old - not the 96 year old.
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[Mr. Happy]

...for an "A"theist, it's all a complete and total NON ISSUE ! (and) the Scripture says..."ashes to ashes, dust to dust".

[IOM]

If you're OK with lying, then you can talk about the "better place". It is, I think much more comforting to know the simple fact, that people "are" not dead, we simply die, No afterlife, that is the way of Nature. Here is a very famous quote that tells it like it is. That is the most "comforting" fact of all.

[LarsEighner]

Things to say: "I am sorry for your loss." "She's out of pain now."