Ditto Dob...#me to.
Don't worry about the Birds your given...they are just showing you that their "Bow Fingers" are still working.
I guess they thought you were trying to prevent them from defending themselves with that question.

Well...let us look at this differently...This is just a thought, a theory based on what was passed on to us...doesn't make it definitive...none of us knows for sure either way.
The 500 or so that witnessed the return of Jesus relay to us that he stated; (paraphrased) that his experience was a good one, he felt no pain, the unhappiness was gone. They also relayed to us that his wounds were still visible, where he was nailed, where he was whipped and where the Romans stabbed him to make sure he was dead.
If we had to come up with a scenario of how this could be, I would offer that his return would have been Holographic in nature, a hologram with solidity and for that to be, there would have to be something left or recorded as his physical self.
Maybe a quantum representation, one that holds that which is the you we know and love.

There was the account of the bright beam of light that bust open the heavy cave door and illuminated the inside of the cave and when it stopped, the only thing left was the Shroud; which has shown us a 3D image of the person whom was wrapped within it.
So a holographic image would certainly explain what they saw, what he felt or didn't feel and also that there would have to be something of his physical self still around...even if it was his DNA which some claim is holographic in nature.

For an image, a holographic reflection is only a electrical/magnetic or digital reflection of the "Real Thing"...

That pretty much sums it up in very few words.

Need a consciousness to have any "we won't care". End existence then any we is not. Fade out as "weeee.............. "

So you are of the 'ghost in a machine' mind, with consciousness hanging around with a body and going off after the body dies to maybe bother other consciousnesses maybe as a ghostly spirit?
Oxygen is definitely not unlikely, being the most common element of the Earth's crust at about 46%. Oxygen is the most common element in the Universe after hydrogen and helium.

The sincere inquiry into what happens after death is what led to most, if not all, religions. The problem with religion is not the inquiry; it is the unproven conclusion, not to mention the attempts by some to use your lack of knowledge as an opportunity for them to exploit.

One way to look at it is that, although Rand had considered consciousness as separate from existence by needing something like 'consciousness is conscious', meaning that consciousness needs no explanation in terms of objects as its cause, consciousness presupposes existence and emerges in some complex brains in living bodies. There is no evidence, whatsoever that there is anything outside of existence to have caused existence of objects, so no reason to believe otherwise.
I just turned 79 and living on due to evidence based medicine with stents and drugs. I do not waste time trying to understand death other than the loss of complex organizations in my body and that that 'my', self, no longer exists with the death of my body, even just the death of my brain.
My main concern with death is to find good homes for all my books and stuff. I, for selfish reasons, do not it all to go to a landfill. Also my wishes for the discarding of my corpse, only a matter that a self could worry about, just cremate it and discard the ashes with no celebration or mumble jumble prayers, not any remembrance.
As for the death of the consciousness, it is not even like going to sleep, it just no longer exists. There is nothing to be afraid of from the none existent.
Just hang in there as long as you still can enjoy life, even though at a lesser enjoyment if that is all one has.
I hope that rant was somewhat understandable.
Since I do not see any sense in prayer, I will just hope you can live more years of a comfortable conscious life.

exactly. With no evidence available for thousands of years, and regarding multiple gods and places that we are supposed to go after death, I just have to conclude that when its over, its OVER.

yeah, in the absense of some actual evidence, this is all a rational person can really accept.

I had 5 low doses of LSD in 1965 and found that, without all the real craziness, that it just makes life harder because one's perceptions need be reinterpreted. They are changed by having a different chemical neural transmitter but are distorted. What you get is a different consciousness which has to be interpreted with respect to your previous memories. Of course, if the dosage is large enough, one's consciousness is distorted enough, because the brain has been poisoned by the large dose, that all one can do is wait 12 or so hours to return to a more rational mind. I do not recommend experimenting with any drug and LSD has the problem, even at low dosage, of having possible flash backs where perception gets a bit wavy.

You're asking me? When it comes to human consciousness, what does "existence" mean? This is where we need to differentiate between thought and reality. Because reality can be a product of consciousness or not, it is very easy to screw up and confuse one with the other.

A number of psychedelics were abused, as we all know, which I define (I could write a book, actually) as taking the materials in an unsafe or unsupervised situation, or in other circumstances that can lead to paranoia.

All my sessions were attended by professionals in the field, and so I did not have to worry about things that others did who mis-used it/them, in more open and uncontrolled settings. Later on, I was able to administer my own, and in very few words, my experiences were very transforming at the most, and quite penetrating at the least.
I saw aspects of my behavior and life in ways that I had not before, and while not always pleasant (some were stark terror, in fact), I was able to work through those experiences and learn a great deal from them.
I found them a great tool for learning very deeply about any issues or problems I had with my life, could see other people differently and more benignly, and my experiences ranged from the aforementioned terror to extreme bliss and satisfaction.
In a phrase, I learned, not always pleasantly, to take responsibility for my life and for my experiences, whatever they were, and to integrate them into my life so that I came out more satisfied, more appreciative, more loving, more kind, and more aware.
And I have the ability to move between those spaces and less pleasant spaces, and be in control of my experience, rather than let it control me.
Another phrase that I would use is: I learned to take responsibility for my life and for my experience.
This was a time when I had credentials of two masters degrees in engineering, had served as a naval officer during Vietnam (never at that location), had a quite responsible job in Silicon Valley before it was known as such.
One final thought: Many of the ideas that came out of Silicon Valley were hatched during or after hallucinogenic trips.
I consider psychedelics a great tool when handled knowingly and responsibly. I do not think I would be alive today were in not for those experiences. I am 75.
To answer the question that started this rambling of mine, I never did learn the answer to "where would I be had I not been born" because it is unimportant to me know. I know that I exist, and that is good enough.
By the way, my associates in these experiences jokingly called flashbacks (which no one ever experienced other than as memories, "free lunches." :-)

Yes, the value of the "trillion dollar question" is greatly inflated. Consciousness in its varying forms, including our advanced form, evolved in life on earth relatively recently, not in whatever established the form of the physical universe.

Inferring what happened too far way for light to have reached us to make it directly observable is the same principle as everything else in physics that requires inference of theoretical entities not directly observable. Our conceptual consciousness makes such inferences possible.

Yup is correct.
You can imagine many very different scenarios.I have a couple of favorites.

Yup.

Thanks.
But, what if congratulations are not due?. What if it's really a "better place?" Consciousness without the burden of a body to maintain. How would it manage without senses? Humans are very mysterious creatures indeed. Wait. It just occurred to me. if death is like a dream state, that means you are creating your own universe nanosecond to nanosecond Now I wonder, whose dream am I a part of? Mine? Adams? Pardon me while I go lie down.

"God does not play dice with the universe." -- Albert Einstein

Keep doing that and you'll be fine. Don't give up!