What are your views about the "afterlife"?

Question

If you believe in an afterlife, what does it entail? Are you still "you"? Do you retain the memories from this life?

Answer 1

A few years ago I had a heart attack and died for about 4 minutes. While they were reviving me I was aware of what they were doing,but .... I was in the most exquisite place. The feelings were so peaceful and warm. No worries,no pain. I am on a transplant list and now if it doesn't happen I am definitely okay with it. No fears here.

Answer 2

I believe there is an afterlife, Many of my life's experience and knowledge confirms that for me. But I believe it will be different that what we have experienced and lived here, so for some they may feel that a spirit form does not constitute an afterlife. I know things and experiences that I have not lived in this life, so there has to be an explanation for that. I believe that eventually things will all come together and make sense when the time is right, for each of us, as of yet I can not provide an explanation and even if I could until a person experience's it for their self they most likely would not believe it. How often have our parents given us advice from there own personal knowledge which we have refused to accept, and then consequently from our own experiences found it to be true. No one can give anyone the benefit of their own knowledge or maturity, each have to learn it on our own.

Answer 3

I believe in the Afterlife, I believe a person is judged by God and either they stay with Him in Heaven or are cast out and eternally sepperated from Him.

I believe I will still be "me" in the afterlife though without this body. My mind will be the same and I think there would have to be memories of this life to appreciate the "peace" ( or torment if the case may be)

Answer 4

I haven t finished trying to find out what it is but i think you can move about in the power of thoughts if you choose to pass not to stay stuck in the physical plane then all you will feel is unconditional love you will be reunited with loved ones and carry on doing whatever you do on earth eg maybe your a concert pianist. You would still hold this personality but lets say a tree was your collective soul everything you've learned through countless live times this personality would be a branch in that tree, this is how i see it but i know it will be a unique experience for each individual as they have different beliefs ,religions etc

Answer 5

I believe there is a superhuman energy that we are to thank for this wonderful opportunity, life. There will be lots of praise and joy. To those that don't view this as "heaven", "utopia", "nirvana",
I think they will have a chance at what they assume the afterlife to be.

I believe you have a soul, a core energy, and that this energy is recycled, constantly, from birth to death. There are positive and negative energies, keeping balance and check. Some bodies are without souls, simply negative energy. Some are pure good, never given to evil, and are simply positive energy. There's reincarnation to some point, when everything is called in at the END for Judgement.

Answer 6

I believe in reincarnation. If energy and mass are never destroyed, but simply transform into each other, then I am always here (and carrying a little piece of everyone with me). As for the soul itself, I've always thought that something like our conscience must continue relatively whole. It takes a majority of our energy with it when it creates our next life (our is assigned it's next life). I am not "me", I am new with the memory of me and my life. I believe that the point of it all is to slowly become better and better at life until we turn into (or back into depending on how your beliefs are) a little piece of God and simply are One.

I also believe that the afterlife was invented so that no one would care if this life was crappy coz we all get a big piece of the pie in the end........... of course, you don't get it until you DIE, so what's the point of LIFE in this theory?

Answer 7

Of course there's an afterlife and this life we have is just a preporation thats what I believe surely this is not the beginning and the end also the afterlife must be good as no one's came back to complain.

Answer 8

Yes. If there is no heaven or hell, there is still an afterlife. How do you explain spirits, or people that died for a few minutes and all have the similar experiences? I think they would not experience that if there was no afterlife. A lot of people say it is peaceful.

Answer 9

I think it is a nice way of coping with the realisation of our own mortality and dealing with bereavement of loved ones.
I don't think there is any evidence to support its existence though and it really isn't plausible within the knowledge we have of the way the world works.
Arguements about "tunnels of light" and "out of body experiences" are all unconvincing since they are reproducible and there are predictable patterns to the way the body shuts down when systemically shocked, explaining why certain sensations occur in certain sequence in near death moments.
Generally vegetative function is preserved longest (no one has survived primary destruction of the brain stem to tell us what happens if function of that part is lost first) but basically that means higher functions go first (you become comatose and unconscious), followed by limbic system (leading to bizarre dream like sensations which have both experiential influence and some predictable common anatomical relations between individuals). This is when the reported near death experiences are ellicited, and finally the brain stem will die if the process isn't halted (that is irreversible).

So whilst I would like to be able to believe, I'm afraid I can't.
It is no more than wishful thinking of a species doomed to live in perpetual awareness of its own finite mortality.

Answer 10

Afterlife to me, is something that nobody can say for 100% definite,that it exists. I'd like it too,or what's the point in being born? But whether you come back as someone or something else,is anybodies guess.