Life after death is it a possibility or just what we would like to believe?

Answer 1

It's a fact. But no-one can prove it to another. You may be privileged to know, as I do, by inner intuitive experience. Or if not you can "believe" by trusting someone who says they know -- perhaps because their words and being feel like Truth. All faiths and most cultures throughout space and time have asserted that there is life after death. Many affirm that we come here again and again (reincarnation) -- but this is not widely accepted in the West because it was taken out of Christian teaching by the politicians of the day in the 550s AD.

Answer 2

If you mean do you exist after your body stops to function as well as rots then no. It is a known fact that people can not live without their body functioning.

Some people have a hard time to deal with this fact and wish to believe. They will go so far as to make fantasy stories regarding some supposed soul.. The evidence makes the likely hood nearly zero.

After a person dies, their body goes through a process where the Billions of cells that made that person begin to break down into simpler molecules. Without the cells to sustain the conscious the person ceases to function.

You can take an analogy of a car engine. If the car engine fails to function anymore does it function in some sort of afterlife? I think not. It could be fixed, but so could the human body and in some cases it is.

So in conclusion, like a dead engine, or a blown computer, or any number of things that no longer function. The human machine ceases to experience, and function thus ceasing to exist.

Answer 3

I think the idea of life after death was made up because of many humans fear of death. How many times have you heard someone say...'don't be sad that so-and-so died...they are going to a better place'......or....'they suffered so in life, they'll be happy now that they've passed on'.....The life after death concept is merely created to ease the fear of death that most people have. There is no basis, evidence, proof that anything really exists.

Answer 4

people like to think theres life after death as we think were so special death cant be just that for US! when a loved 1 dies too believing in life after death keeps us going

Answer 5

I definitely believe in life after death, because energy is never destroyed but only changes. Life is energy, the soul is energy. The "me" that makes me what I am, is energy. So when the time comes, it will be transformed onto a new plane. I don't believe in reincarnation, but I do believe in eternal life. My particular eternal life includes Jesus Christ.
I don't remember being born, though I'm sure it was traumatic! Like toothpaste being squeezed from the tube. So I'm sure that after death itself, I won't remember the event...I'll be too busy living on the new level.
And, having said that, if there's no life after death, I'll never know it. However, since I believe there is, I'm glad to know it's safe in His hands.

Answer 6

Karl Marx said, 'Religion is the opium of the masses'.

The essence here is that people use religion to make themselves feel better. God has been likened to a giant teddy bear. When people close to you die it is easier if you believe that they are going to another place and will be happy. People are terrified of death, they use God to comfort themselves, to tell themselves that there is life after death and they will be happy. It's probably all wishful thinking.

The 'It can't be proven' argument is crap. It doesn't prove anything. It can't be proven that the first human did not grow from a piece of cheese, but that doesn't mean it's true.

Answer 7

Not only is there life after death, there is also life before birth, the soul or self is eternal and the spiritual body which is temporarily covered by a gross material form and a subtle mind that is materially conditioned, has no begining or end.

In the western world generally it is this one fundamental flaw of mis-identifying the material situation as objective reality, that is causing so many difficulties, based on the singular and collective conditioning of temporary relative energy.

To understand the science of the soul or self, aquire one copy of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is translated from Sanskrit into English by HDG A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, this book of timeless wisdom that has been passed down in an unbroken chain of disciplic succession for 5,000 years has this to say in regard to your question:-

Chapter 2 Verse 12

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

Purport by HDG Srila Prabhupada

The same Vedic truth given to Arjuna is given to all persons in the world who pose themselves as very learned but factually have but a poor fund of knowledge. The Lord says clearly that He Himself, Arjuna and all the kings who are assembled on the battlefield are eternally individual beings and that the Lord is eternally the maintainer of the individual living entities both in their conditioned and in their liberated situations. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme individual person, and Arjuna, the Lord's eternal associate, and all the kings assembled there are individual eternal persons. It is not that they did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons. Their individuality existed in the past, and their individuality will continue in the future without interruption. Therefore, there is no cause for lamentation for anyone.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 8

It's a possibility but the likelihood of there actually being life after death is effectively zero. But it is a great attraction for the gullible and ignorant.

Answer 9

Yes there is life after death. Death is just the beginning. If you would like to understand more about this check out lds.org or talk to the lds missionary's.

Answer 10

before my dad and my best friend both died last year,i believed but since they have never visited me i think it was wishful thinking but helped me cope with there departures because by the time i realised they would not come and see me the healing process had begun.