is there life after we die ??

Answer 1

Tagore once said that "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."

But still, who knows? Yeap, it's awful to feel that one day we will just stop existing, especially when we know that eternity lasts a long long time. Fear of death and actually, fear of nothingness, have turned people to different religions most of which (if not all) promise some form of life after death.

However, think of this. There are things on this universe that we have yet to understand, things that are there even if we can't see them. If we were to go back in time and try to describe a T.V, or a cell-phone to a person of the 16th c. they'd probably think we're crazy or blasphemous. Just because we can't visually perceive electrical currents or electromagnetic fields, that doesn't mean they don't exist. So this energy that dwells inside our bodies and makes us move and think that we tend to call 'soul' may indeed exist, but we are not yet able to perceive it with our senses.

Also, some people argue that since we don't have any recollection of life before we were born, that necessarily means there is no life after death either. Ok, but what if the neurons in our brain can't process this memory? Is lack of memory proof of inexistence?

Finally, I must say this: I am not a religious person, and as many people are, I am afraid of death. However, I realize that this fear manifests itself mostly when I'm depressed or when things are not as great as I'd want them to be. When I'm happy or in love, or especially when I've accomplished something I'm proud of, the fear totally disappears.

So, since we cannot eliminate the uncertainty of what happens afterwards maybe we can extinguish the fear of death itself. Then death, may indeed, have no dominion over us.

Answer 2

Don't religious freaks give the most pointless base answers!

So far, there is no scientific proof of the conscience surviving death, or indeed that the conscience is attributed to a single energy source such as a "soul".

If there is life after we die, I don't believe it will be an individual life. That is to say, you would not be you. You would either be unaware of this continued existence as your conscious energy dissipates into other energy, or you would join some sort of single consciousness such as God.

If there is a God and life after death, I believe you would not retain an individual spirit. It would be pointless. The point of life on Earth (if the religious folks are right) would be to live an individual existence as a single being. That is the great gift of life. Once you die, you would return to "God" and merge and become part of this mysterious entity.

Either way, when you die, I believe you, as a person/ individual, dies forever.

Answer 3

Wow! very good question. Please open your mind to what I'm about to propose.

When we die, we have a few minutes of brain activity, this can resemble the alpha waves of a dream, as you may or may not know 20 seconds of dreaming can seem as a whole nights sleep of dreaming.
So these last minutes of brain activity can really be a whole life time, like the one we are living at this moment.

look for a movie called waking life it will ask you some pretty neat questions.

Answer 4

Yes life goes on after we die.

Answer 5

You've got it the wrong way round. Life is before we die-make the most of it. And even IF you had it right way round the question should be is there life after life!

We are a biological coincidence.

Answer 6

Yeah, Certainly.

Listen to Socrates:

' No harm can come to a man in this life or thereafter.'

What does this show?

There is a life after death. We are all immortal (immoral too?) ! Death will die!

Cats have nine lives, why not we?

Answer 7

We are but vehicles for the genes. When a car is clapped out you get a new one to continue on your journey.

The genes have hitched a succession of rides (in human bodies) from the appearance of the first man on earth.

The genes are immortal so life is immortal.

Answer 8

i believe that depending on what type of person you have been in this life that there is a differnt place for everyone when they die. my mother she believes that earth is or own hell and when we die we all go to a better place

Answer 9

I agree with v if you burn a candle eventually it disappears but it has only changed its form in to light heat, gas and maybe pleasure, you can feel it in your heart where you are going you only get out of life what you put in maybe same can be said for death.

Answer 10

after we die there's the afterlife . This afterlife or the soul will journey to go back to the kingdom of God to be in holy communion with HIm.