Is there life after death?

Question

Thank you for all your answers! The only reason Im asking this is because I want to know how many people feels and think the way I do.

I just read a book called "What dreams may come" and really left me thinking about life after life or death; any way of saying I guess could be right... Its about a guy that dies and narrates life after death in a VERY "realistic" way... makes you think about how are you living your life.
I read it beacuse someone here in yahoo answers recomended to me because lately I've been scared of flying and Scuba diving (which I love) I dont want to be afraid of dying. I dont want to worry about how or when I'm going to die.
Some answers are making me laugh and some think... but most of them are just making feel more brave and happy! I will enjoy life and not worry about death. It will come for sure, and I just have to live a good life and be a good person.

Thanks again!

sorry about my spelling/grammar mistakes, ESL

Answer 1

Depends on what you firmly believe. The most appropriate question is "IS THERE LIFE AFTER LIFE?". I personally believe in the continuing cycle of life as it has been said " from dust you came, to dust you shall return." more aptly for me is, "from the Spirit of God I came, to the Spirit of God I shall go back." and since the Spirit of God is everywhere and so my spirit is.

Answer 2

If there be a resurrection, then yes! When aour bodies die, our soul cannot fucntion. It's the software and our brain is the hardware. The Spirit of God is our breath and it is the power that heeps our body alive. After death, we're dead. The real quetion should be, is there a resurrection? There are two resurrections. The first one is when Christ comes to take hiis people and end the world. The second death is when he comes back 1000 years later with the New Jerusulam and cleanses the Earth with hellfire from heaven. Then the Earth becomes new and all the wicked people and evil angels destroyed.

Answer 3

Well, I think there is but not in the typical sense of heaven or hell like all christians would say. Energy never dies and I believe life after death will be a very stark difference than our human lives but more the life of a cosmic being or energy with different thought process and movement than could even be imagined by our minds.

Answer 4

Nobody knows for real, so it's entirely a matter of personal belief.

Me, I'd rather believe that there's life after death. The alternative is boring to think of, and extremely cynical in my point of view.

Answer 5

where do we go after we die? is there such a thing as an afterlife? or are we continually reincarnated? is there a set number of souls in the world, so when one body dies, another gets the soul that was housed in the first? is the world we live in now, in fact an afterlife, yet we have no memory of a previous one? or is this the only world there is? for all we know, this world could be a promotion or a demotion of what we once were.

Answer 6

My religion teacher explained it to myself, and our class last year.

There is no proof what happens after death, but incially, your soul goes into another body.

Ever meet someone in the street and just know you've met them before ? The answer is your past life, you are your ancestors.

Hope that helped.

Answer 7

I won't believe there's life after death until someone comes back and tells me about it. Even then, like old Mr. Scrooge, I'll wonder if I was dreaming the whole thing.

Answer 8

Several schools of the thought on LAD (life after death)

The Atheist assumes the soul does not exist and all things eminate from the mind, so the thought here is once your dead, your worm food and thats it.

The Agnostic does not adhere to religious views of LAD but does sense the soul is something eternal.

The Catholic view is after death you spend a period in purgatory for your sins on earth doing penance eventually achieving ascension to heaven.

The Fundamentalist "C"hristian view is you go to heaven if you have confessed your sins and are penitent for them on earth.

The New age thinker, Hindus and Buddhist believe in afterlife and often in the form of the soul returning to this plane of existence to learn a lesson that was not learned in a previous life.

The muslims see the afterlife as a paradise after a life of jihad..

The jews see it simply as going to God.

Most "cultures" have some form of Life After Death.

I personally see the soul as eternal, I wouldn't want to spend eternity with the sanctimonious "C"hristians that inhabit these boards.. So I think life after death will be something beyond our capacity to describe in human terms. Hell is something of our own making here on earth.

"Religion is for those afraid of hell, spirituality is for those that have been there.."

Answer 9

Of course, it's silly to think that this is all there is to existence. Our life is full of riveting experience, don't misunderstand me. But I know that once my material body passes back to the Earth, there is another part of me that was never meat, tissue or blood.

There is a spiritual realm awaiting us, with a great eternal radiant light that wants nothing more than to hold you again, and you feel the same for it.

Answer 10

I'm afraid not. As much as people would like to believe that there is eternal salvation or damnation, rest assured, there isn't.

People created the Afterlife so that they could feel comfortable knowing that 'This isn't it' ... instead, I prefer to live the life I HAVE to the fullest, rather than counting on an afterlife.

Answer 11

You can spend your life asking that question and you will get at least a million answers.
Most of those answers are second hand--passed along from preacher (Pope, Rabbi, Witch Doctor--whatever.) to preacher, and preacher to congregation and the only answer that will do you any good is the one you figure out for yourself.
Here is one fact you can believe: "Your quest for an answer will be very interesting."