Do you believe in a life hereafter and, if so, what would it be like?

Answer 1

I'm of the "don't know" school of thought. However, if I could create it - I would have it built on successes of previous life and continue to evolve toward the solution of problems on earth. I would take all the best of the previous life and allow them to blossom and develop into their full potential. I would like to be able to be with my friends and loved one who have died and also experience the fullness and lovingness of those potential relationships. I would experience an understanding of creation and the creator and cosmic consciousness.

Answer 2

I have been raised to believe in life after death and so I do. But I don't know of anyone who has been there and came back to tell us what it was like. I suspect it would be very individual so if you loved horses there would me magnificent ones for you to ride. If you love the mountains you would be living in mountains likewise the sea or the desert. For those who think there is nothing after life, if you're correct, I'll never find out because I'll just be dead and won't know anything.
Could it simply be a tale to make the certainty of death a bit more palatable to us mortals? Sure it could and what harm can it do? I'm content with thinking there is something beyond and trying to live a good enough life to deserve it.

Answer 3

Both our memories and our personalities are demonstrably, provably physical manefestations, namely the wiring of our neurons and the flow of neurotransmitters in our brains. When we die, the physical structure of our brains which defines who we are very quickly degrades, and all that we ever were sinks into oblivion, becoming forever more a part of the past.

There has never been any evidence that there is any kind of "soul" separate from our physical bodies. It is wishful thinking promulgated by religions as a comforting white lie against the finality of death.

But let's imagine that there was indeed a soul which survived us beyond death. First of all, if souls can survive without physical bodies, then why do they need physical bodies in the first place? Also, a soul would be nothing like the living person. It would be without memories, without personality, and quite possibly without conscious thought. In other words, without all those things that make us, us. The afterlife would be a bleak, meaningless existence devoid of communication, sensory perception, experiences, memories, or anything else that we experience on a physical level. If you met your relatives, you would not recognize them, you would not remember them if you could, nor would they be like anything you remembered about them.

As attractive as the concept of life after death is, people don't seem to realize just how much of our personal identity, memories, experiences, and conscious thought are based on entirely physical phenomena within our physical brains. When we die, all that is lost.

Even if I believed in souls or an afterlife, I'm not sure I would want there to be one given these circumstances. But you know what? That's OK. Life in the here & now is great enough and precious enough that its value to me is greater than any fairy-tale "happily ever after" afterlife. Heaven does not await us after death, but waits for us to create it here on Earth. Some of us, have even already found it. :-)

Answer 4

I do and I believe that we all go back into the cosmic body that we all together make up, like atoms make up matter, only it's not physical matter but universal consciousness. There have always been con-artists and people who prey on the hopes of those who have lost loved ones, but there have just been too many experiences shared and reported for me to believe that there is nothing more to know or learn about what happens after our bodies stop. "We" (humanity in general) are childish or naive to believe that "we" already know everything there is to know .

Answer 5

It depends on the point at which you ends your present life. For each individual it has to be different.

As a surprise no one is going to inherit heaven. But many will go to hell as a surprise. Because they also expected to enter heaven.

The same place can be heaven for one and hell for another.

Example:
In after life - everyone inherits a spiritual body which is like crystal. Every evil nature is visible like dirts and darkness within. Every good nature is like little lights and when it is through crystal it reflects in multiple fold. The person in front of whom you have to appear is pure without any dirt and darkness and a fulness of light. Just imagine a situatiuon that you are in front of Him.

Answer 6

Life after...

The life after is probably nothing like the standard images we know of heaven or hell. The idea of heaven and hell just doesn't fit with what one can see in nature. In nature, everything cycles through everything else. So maybe, if there is even an after life, it cycles. It could be reincarnation. It could be rejoining a higher energy. It could be a slow decay of consciousness to feed newer consciousnesses.

Who knows...

I just hope there is something after. The thought of nothing is unbearable.

Answer 7

In heaven , but in hell there is no after life . If you follow God and walk out on faith I can truly say you can be promised life after the end of yours on this earth .

Answer 8

I dont, life after death who knows, but something for real is our world we should try and make it better rather than striving to make our life in so called the other world better that nobody of us seen.

Answer 9

There's no evidence of the afterlife. While it might be nice to see long-dead relatives and friends, without proof, its just fanciful thinking.

Answer 10

I believe in heaven and reincarnation. I believe it's different for every person wheather they go to heaven or get reincarnated.