I'd like to hear your thoughts on what death is like? What happens when you die?

Answer 1

What happens when we die?
Are you joking asking those alive? Well here is what I think - and know.

* The Spirit leaves because of hardship and an unnatural life we all create
I believe that the Spirit in us, the will to live, leaves before we die. In fact, I think it leaves gradually and makes us age.

* The Soul leaves at death
Finally, when our Soul decides to leave the body, the body is left behind, a kind of spiritual throw away society! Should not we be able to accelerate the vibration of our body to take it with us, as Jesus did? E=mc.c, meaning that matter or mass, accelerated very much, turns to energy!

* Conscious after death
Our Soul, I believe and know, is not "dead" but is conscious after leaving the body. There are many reports by those Souls who have left the body, which had been found to be "clinically dead," and have returned, telling what they could not have known, if their Soul had stayed in their body (see books like Life After Death by Moody, MD).

* Soul as creator
After leaving the body, our Soul tends to create what it has believed all life long: creating heaven, meeting angels, meeting others who went before - or creating hell, or believing the soul is dead and experiencing this. Some Souls decide to return to their loved ones and give them messages, as through the accurate mediums on TV.

* Sudden separation
When a soul is suddenly jolted out of the body, and the body is dysfunctional like in an accident, the soul may not realize that it no longer has a body. These souls may roam around as "ghosts" who want to talk to their family and friends. They may cling to the places where they have died or to the houses they had lived in. They can be instructed that they have no body and can be sent on their way to the light. They will be delighted.

Poltergeist
Some Souls, suddenly left without a body, may get frustrated when the living do not hear them any longer and may become "Poltergeister" (poltergeists) who make noise and break things to get attention. Many people have experienced such and a university professor has researched these phenomena on a scientific basis. These poltergeists can be sent to the light and will be thankful for the hint.

* Seeking a situation to leave
Some Souls want to leave but do not want to commit suicide. They may chose situations where they can leave, e.g. accidents, malpractice, "incurable" diseases etc. The Soul knows and sets up the circumstances, although the conscious mind may have no clue.

Reunited with God
The Soul's goal is naturally to be reunited with God, our source. This requires to give up all separation from God that is, all individuality, all ego, all desire for self. God's will be done.

* Reborn
However, not all Souls are ready to reunite with God and they may return to earth life in a new body, as the Bible states it can be done. Jesus points out to his disciples that Elias came back as John the Baptist! Not many churches realize this yet. The Dalai Lama of Tibet is regularely reborn to lead the Tibetan, religious community. There are reports that the young child knows places and ceremonies, events and names, it could not have known from this life.

* My thoughts
These are my thoughts about death and dying. There is no fear of death when we know that we will not be annihilated, punished or burn in hell before we reunite with God; what we believe will happen, for we are CO-creators of our fate. Yet, we cannot fall out of God's grace. Finally, we all will be reunited with God, our Maker.

May you enjoy life. May you keep the Spirit through excitement about life's possibilities to do good, and by doing good.

Cordially, India.Magica

Answer 2

What Happens to the Soul at Death?

“The doctrine that the human soul is immortal and will continue to exist after man’s death and the dissolution of his body is one of the cornerstones of Christian philosophy and theology.”—“NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA.”

THE above-quoted reference work, however, admits that “the notion of the soul surviving after death is not readily discernible in the Bible.” What, then, does the Bible really teach about what happens to the soul at death?

The Dead Are Unconscious

2 The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: “The dead know nothing . . . There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave.” (Moffatt) Death, therefore, is a state of nonexistence. The psalmist wrote that when a person dies, “he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:4.

3 So the dead are unconscious, inactive. When pronouncing sentence upon Adam, God stated: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Before God formed him from the dust of the ground and gave him life, Adam did not exist. When he died, Adam returned to that state. His punishment was death—not a transfer to another realm.

The Soul Can Die

4 When Adam died, what happened to his soul? Well, remember that in the Bible the word “soul” often simply refers to a person. So when we say that Adam died, we are saying that the soul named Adam died. This might sound unusual to a person who believes in the immortality of the soul. However, the Bible states: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) Leviticus 21:1 speaks of “a deceased soul” (a “corpse,” Jerusalem Bible). And Nazirites were told not to come near “any dead soul” (“a dead body,” Lamsa).—Numbers 6:6.

5 A similar reference to the soul is found at 1 Kings 19:4. A severely distressed Elijah “began to ask that his soul might die.” Likewise, Jonah “kept asking that his soul might die, and he repeatedly said: ‘My dying off is better than my being alive.’” (Jonah 4:8) And Jesus used the phrase “to kill a soul,” which The Bible in Basic English renders “to put to death.” (Mark 3:4) So the death of the soul simply means the death of the person.

Answer 3

I would say death would have to be like stripping a car. All thats left is the frame and it isnt going anywhere. You can smash it up or let it sit there and rot until it falls apart. We die and then get stripped. All our moving parts are removed and then we either are put into the ground or go up in smoke.. If you get planted worms are going to be eating you. I say when your dead you are dead and thats the end of the chapter and a new chapter begins but on another character.

Answer 4

I witnessed the death of my precious precious father, who died unexpectedly and suddenly while my kids and i were visiting him. It was scary as hell because we were trying to save him and it was clear that he died very fast. He fell from the crushing pain in his chest, tried to get up and fell again, breathed agonizly hard, and then ceased everything. He was still warm and beautiful and did look peaceful, but I wanted him back and when I screamed "COME BACK DADDY" he didn't flinch. He was dead, which means he was gone.

This is the most horrible thing to ever happen to my family, and to my poor daddy, but the actual dying itself was amazingly quick and so strangely ---- i don't know the word. It's just that you would think the actual dying itself would horrific, but it is the loss that's horrific.

Does this tease it out?

Though I say his death was unexpected, this was in part caused by my denial, because he got a feeling the day before and told me he didn't think he'd live much longer. He actually did everything he could to make that last day perfect and wonderful. And so it would have been, if he'd been with us when the next day began.

Only hours before my dad died, as we were sitting down to the delicious dinner my dad cooked us all, my 9 year old spontaneously sang to my dad a song dad had taught him and we'd sung since the '60s - 'you've got to prime the pump, you must have faith and belief, you've got to give of yourself, before you're worthy to receive, drink all the water you can hold, wash your face and soothe your feet, but leave the bottle full for others, thank you kindly, desert pete.'

my oh my.

Coincidentally, dad and I also talked, only hours before he died, about a plane (flight 800) where the passenger section flew several minutes after the cockpit blew off. I said, oh no, dad, those poor people knowing they were going to leave behind their loved ones, what agony. And he looked at me for the longest time, couldn't talk, just looking intently at me with his amazing black eyes with blue at the outer edges. Finally he said, in a choked voice, "Well, i think everyone wants to die in their sleep."

He almost made that. Instead, he had to know he was leaving us. And tho he said when Princess Diana died that I cried more for her than I could possibly cry for him when he died, there is, of course, no comparison.

I've learned that what happens when someone dies is that their survivors, if they loved them, are reminded by every tiny thing about them, and that their survivors might be the lady crying while trying to choose cereal at the market, or their survivors might be screaming at god in the shower until they are hoarse.

death is pretty awful for the survivors.

(hence imaginary heaven.)

Answer 5

You are a Spirit living in a Body.
You look Just like your Body.
When you come out of your Body for Good (what we call Death), your Body (son of man) fall's over and is Dead like a Dog, rot's in the Grave. Period.
But, if you (a Spirit) got RECREATED (Born-Again), when you come outta your Body, you will go UP and not Down.
We inheirited a messed-up Spirit from Adam. When Adam sinned, he messed-up his Spirit and passed it on to Everybody Else (us), that's why you gotta ask JESUS to SAVE (Recreate) you (a spirit), so you can go to Heaven when it's all over.
The messed-up Spirit is passed on by the Male, that's why JESUS couldn't have an EARTHLY Father. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

The bible never talks about purgatory. It only talks about heaven or hell. But the basis of you going to heaven has nothing to do with our good works. The bible only has one definition of rigtheousness, and that is, if you are able to obey all the commandments without a single mistake. But of course all of us have fallen short of this. Not one is actually righteous. But the good news is according to the bible:

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Christ Jesus our Lord"

Therefore, eternal life is not achieved by our own good works, but by the grace of God. It is what Jesus did in the cross that we are saved - and not by what we do.

Question is, how will be sure if your going to heaven or not? Well its just your faith in Jesus Christ.

If you ask me where I'm going, id say without bathing an eyelash, to heaven. If someone would ask me why I should go there, Id just say, because Jesus died for my sins a long time ago. It is finished.

Answer 7

WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT DEATH

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.—1 Corinthians 15:6.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.—John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it?— And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place?— Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

Answer 8

Nothing. When you're dead, you're dead. You don't go to some magical place in the sky with angels and unicorns. You just die. And I can't stand how people just copy and paste entire pages from that fairytale bible. That never answers anything.

Answer 9

Since I haven't died yet, I don't know for sure. I have witnessed many people die however and it was mostly peaceful. The spirit goes somewhere. And then what?

Answer 10

everyone thinks that death is something to be feared, but i think it is a wonderful thing. if you live a good life, you will go to heaven, or most likely purgatory, and soon you will be re- united with you spiritual father and mother and brother, and will see all your lost relatives and friends.