What do you think happens after we die?

Question

im just wondering...but if you are going to give me something about your religion please save it for someone else..i would rather not sit here and read a religious beliefe that is made up by someone who died off a long time ago. i was your opinion..one that you cultivated all on your own in your own mind..please think about for a while. i really would like to know what other people think.

Answer 1

As I am a spiritual person, and not religious, so I will share my perspective.

I believe we are here to experience, learn from, and share life lessons.

As we move through life, we are guided towards those who are going to teach us/we teach them/we teach each other.

Everything happens for a reason.

When we die, we fast forward through our life experiences, and relive all we have gone through. We learn, debrief and grow from it. We carry this in our souls/entities/energy.

Death is not the end; it is the entry into another classroom, of our choice.

For many people, this will seem "out there". Take a moment, and ask you inner self, what is reason we are here? You may be surprised...

Answer 2

Serious question, serious answer. Have you ever had surgery before? If not, then I don't think you'll fully understand this. Just before having surgery you (the patient) are given something, usually by needle, that puts you in an unconscious state. One moment your laying there in the operating room looking up at at nurse or assistant, they put the needle in and continue to talk to you. The next thing is that you wake up hours later in a recovery room. You never felt a gradual fall into sleep. It's so sudden that it's now your here, now you're not. That's how I view death. When it happens it's like shutting off the lights, except that they never come back on. There's no semi-consciousness or dreaming, or a feeling, nothing. You don't even know the lights went out. And that's all there is for the deceased. Everything after that has to do with survivors, family, friends, newspaper obituaries, yearly visitation to a cemetary, refreshing flowers, etc etc. At least that's how I see it.

Answer 3

1. Body will be destroyed as per the custom/religion you belong to.
2. The consciousness(energy) when remains, looks for a way to express its desires. Then the chances of that consciousness may evolve to
a. Become a ghost, hell being or heaven being
b. May become a lower animal or creature on this earth or some other planet.
c. May reborn as a human being again
d. May the energy when the current body dies, gets dissolved due to its all previous mental energy nullification, will get a higher freedon to decide where to born and how. Whether to re-born or not etc.

But, in all the above cases happens or not, the 'you' now won't exist then and no repetition by going back by time that is of sure.

Answer 4

When you say "i would rather not sit here and read a religious beliefe that is made up by someone who died off a long time ago" you demonstrate that you seem to think that a person who is alive today would have a greater insight into the mysteries of life and death than someone from a previous period of history.

Why do you think that? Has science provided the answer to your question? The fact is that if you want an answer to a spiritual question you should seek your answers from a spiritual source and not just ask a bunch of people to take their best guess unless you don't really care to know the truth.

http://www.tektonics.org/scim/sciencemony.htm

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

“I think there’s a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

“Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it’s rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, ‘Faith is actually plausible.’ You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone.”

Answer 5

I think when we die, we actually become the universe. Once we die we simply become organic matter which is recylced for something else. it may be used for the next living beings, or for some chemical/nuclear reaction, or whatever. we would still exist even though we weren't necessarily "alive".

Answer 6

If I could speak from the bible I will say that after death as a human we return to the dust because from out of it we were taken but out soul goes to our heavenly father God. We don't change into another form and live somewhere Else. that is my answer to you question.

Answer 7

What happens? Well, first there is usually a funeral, then they stick you in the ground or burn you to ashes. The End.

Answer 8

What is the point, If I was to answer you with what I truly believe you would not listen or accept what I have to say.

Answer 9

you die.no feeling,no nothing.dead.i don't really care for your lectures on religion-but the Bible speaks on this subject.why not read it and draw your own conclusions?

Answer 10

when we die someone will finally throw us a great party and we cant enjoy it. that sucks.