in death, what happens to your spirit?

Question

i feel a bit silly for asking this but i would really like some input, so here goes
2 weeks ago i lost a very dear friend. she had 5 kids, 2 of the home that are 8 year old twins. she loved her kids more than she loved life itself. of course they are devistated.
she was a spiritual person, and at one time she had what i would call a one on one relationship with God. she was one of those people that just glowed from her relationship with him. she wasnt the type to preach or nag to other people about getting God in their lives, she just loved Him and what He meant to her.
i believe that we all have our own spirit within us, i also believe if we allow it in, we also have the spirits of God and Jesus.
my question is, when we die, what happens to our spirits? i mean, do you think it is possible that when people die, they have the ability to look down on those that they love?
im unsure about whether it is like that, or if we just go in to nothingness until judgement day
?

Answer 1

Life
Our spirits were created by God, are from God and were once with God...at point the of conception between our parents - God sends down our chosen Spirit..to be born of chosen parents..our supernatural spirit unite with our natural body..we live on earth trying to discover our purpose in life and always in longing, for the Truth in which we initially came from..

Death
Our Spirit returns to His Heavenly Kingdom - a place where time doesn't exist..where we will have to account for all things done on earth (assuming we were good people and believed in His Word)

Answer 2

U have ur answer in ur question. Ur friend was lucky that she felt close to God. Infact everyone is but some dont want to accept the fact that we and god are one. If one searches one finds for himself that he is not the body which takes birth and dies but a powerful and pure form of energy what we call as spirit. And friend there is no question of allowing god into us. The Shiv Sutras ( ancient hindu scriptures) say "There is nothing that is not God". And they say the whole universe is infact a Play of Conciousness or the Play of God. So one doesnot has to worry about those who are left behind since God listens to the prayer of an ant , we are after all humans. And the spirit leaves a body to take another.. it is a cycle till the final dissolution of world... but even after dissolution the big bang once again starts the creation... So be glad that u , me and all are part of these divine play... we did not bring anything so there is no question of losing...

Answer 3

I am sorry that you lost your friend and feel badly for her children. If it comforts you to believe in spirits and an afterlife, fine. The kids may need to do that for a while, just like believing in Santa Claus. I understand that. But when we die, we die. Nada--pffft! Your friend is out of here. Forget judgment day as well. We don't recall "where we were" before we were born any more than we will be aware of out finite little selves after we die, because our finite little thinking selves will be GONE! However, your friend will always live in the memory of her kids; her DNA will be carried down the generations. So in that sense she will never die. Let that comfort you.

Answer 4

Many Christians say that people remain dead until Judgement Day, so they cannot look down upon anyone. Atheists say death is final, so no one looks down in their opinion either. This is one area where Christians and atheists agree. I see no convincing evidence that spirits exist. I always say the truth is prefereable to delusions, regardless of how unpleasant truth may seem and how pleasant delusions may seem. I accept that death is final, so I see no point in trying to pretend that dead people will live again. Lies don't satisfy anyone.

Answer 5

Afterlife as an individual or collective existence
Belief in an afterlife usually entails the belief that something survives the body when death occurs, such as an immaterial soul or spirit. Philosophers have long debated whether the soul or mind has an immaterial or incorruptible quality; see, for example, the Mind-body problem. Some pantheistic systems have seen the afterlife as a process of (re-)assimilation into a cosmic spirit

While the major monotheistic religions of the world (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and their offshoots) almost universally preach some form of mind-body dualism, many Eastern "religions", such as the many branches of Buddhism and Taoism do not contain any such claims, and may in fact preach ideologies that are opposed to it. Zen Buddhism in particular is famous for koans and parables that are meant to teach that the nature of consciousness is transient and/or illusory, with some schools going so far as to say that even the concept of a "self" is fundamentally flawed.
Afterlife as reward or punishment
Many religious traditions have held that the afterlife will resolve justice by assigning rewards and punishments to people according to how they lived their lives. This belief can be found throughout the ancient world, especially in Greek and Roman religion, as well as in various Asian religions. To the extent that the afterlife is a form of justice, it is usually restricted to humans, as other animals are not held responsible for their actions.

Afterlife as reincarnation
Another afterlife concept which is found among Hindus, Rosicrucians, Spiritists, and Wiccans is reincarnation, as evolving humans life after life in the physical world, that is, acquiring a superior grade of consciousness and altruism by means of successive reincarnations. This succession is conceived to lead toward an eventual liberation or spiritual rebirth as spiritual beings. However, some practioners of eastern religions follow a different concept called metempsychosis which purposes that human beings can transmigrate into animals, vegetables or even minerals. One consequence of the Hindu and Spiritist beliefs is that our current lives are also an afterlife. According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

Buddhist, however, views that rebirth takes place without a self (similar to soul) and that the process of rebirth is simply a continuation of the previous life. The process of being reborn as any other being is based on your karma. And from a Buddhist prespective, the current life is actually a continuation of the pastlife.

Rosicrucians , in the same way of of those who have had near-death experiences, speak of a life review period occurring immediately after death and before entering the afterlife's planes of existence (before the silver cord is broken), followed by a judgment, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's life.

Some Neopagans believe in personal reincarnation, whereas some believe that the energy of one's soul reintegrates with a continuum of such energy which is recycled into other living things as they are born Sikhs also believe in reincarnation. They believe that the soul belongs to the spiritual universe which has its origins in God. It is like a see-saw, the amount of good done in life will store up blessings, thus uniting with God. A soul may need to live many lives before it is one with God.

Answer 6

I believe that it goes to a quiet peaceful place for a rest and sleep. When it has recovered, it has a discussion with its guides to determine what needs to be done next in the path of spiritual evolution. If it has progressed far enough, it may elect to remain out of the body to progress further, or it may elect to return to a body in order to help others along the path.
If it hasn't yet progressed far enough, then it must return to the body, and situations are scanned for a mother who is likely to provide the best opportunity for the next lesson.

Answer 7

According to their catechism, they are prown to see what they expect to, most of the times! Some times they are occluded and
remember nothing! Now, let me tell you this one :We don't have
a spirit : We are the spirit and we don't die ;only body perishes.
We go through a transit time and we come back.Some of us they
do recall their last life(or previous ones)and we show-up in excell ence, some don't-or less! But what you must know is :we can't
die! So cheer up. We only return-who knows where in...!
I don't mean shaking your stable data, but...this is what's happen
ing all the time! (sorry).

Ciao........John-John.

Answer 8

The way I have always been taught, is that when we die, our spirit goes to a large waiting room with all the other souls to wait for judgment day. I know it sounds weird ,but at least they aren't alone. All their loved ones that have passed are there with them too.

Answer 9

When you die, you are dead. There is no more "you." Hard concept to wrap your brain around, I know, but for the love of your children, stop the idolatry and stop wasting all that energy on capitalization. There's nobody listening. When you die, you feed worms. You "live on" (to the extent you do) in your children and their children.
The end.

Answer 10

Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn
I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - "While you live,
"Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return."