What happens when we die?

Question

I know this question has probably been asked 1000 times before, but its something I cant get my head around. I have recently lost someone close to me and since then think about it a lot

I know there are no real answers to the question and when I think about I think it must just be the end, nothing happens? God is a fantasy and cant be real it doesn’t make sense that we all die and live again somewhere else.

But what about ghosts and mediums that apparently contact the dead? surely there must be proof of this? I have never seen a medium so don’t know how real it is, but if they REALLY can contact the dead surely that means something happens after we die or at least they could get some answers?

I wish I had an answer to this, its sad to think the person I lost has gone, existence is nothing to them they don’t even know they where alive, they or we all will just be forgotten about,

Answer 1

Simple Answer: Once you are dead, you are gone, others care a sh*t about it, and your yahoo points does not increases..

Answer 2

The short answer, as you recognise, is that we do not know. Indeed we cannot know: if we did know we would wonder instead what happened afer whatever happens when we die, and so on for ever. Either we just cease to exist, which is not a very attractive thought, or we have some other sort of existence, which might include reincarnation as a different being, or resurrection in Heaven or Hell, From a philosophical point of view, I suppose I ought to tell you that there are lots of very academic questions such as what it means to say that we remain the same being although we shange into a totally different form.

I think, however, that a more practical, and I hope comforting, point is that one thing that certainly happens when we die is that those we leave behind remember us. Think of the good things that the person you have lost did and the happy memories you have of times spent with them. Try to think how you can build on these thoughts so that the person you have lost remains an influence for good in this world.

The pain of losing people we love never fully goes away, nor would we want it to because it would mean we had forgotten. However, those who have gone before us can become a positive part of our personal experience as we get on with the course of our lives.

All the best..

Answer 3

When a person dies they live on and on in our memories never to be forgotten.

We share our loves, hates and fears with those memories at first daily and then eventually at much longer intervals.

It is us that are left behind that suffer the pain of loss and our loved one when dead does not suffer at all.

I have a hope for a God and that is all I can say about that matter, I have a spark of interest in mediums but today I feel as you do about the end of a physical existence..the point when you are no more?

So I feel that you are experiencing the vision of how it will feel and it panics you...it's a reality check....

Answer 4

well i do believe that there IS an answer for this even though we are not still sure about it. that's the first matter.
the second matter about existence of death after life... when you say that someone has after-life does not necessarily means that he/she is turning into a ghost or the ghost rises from body... think about it as your beloved will exist for you and with you... there could be other forms of existence as well... looking at it biologically they are becoming a part of this world... if you are sensitive enough (that i am sure u are) u can feel them...
i am not talking about ghosts or mediums here... that's more of a scientific matter and as far as i am concerned it is failing to be proved by science so far...
i gave this answer coz u mentioned the lost otherwise i might answer it in another way...

Answer 5

what will happen when we die ?
Death is not the end of the road, it is only a bend in the road. For the believer, death is the doorway to heaven. For the unbeliever, it is a passageway into unimaginable suffering. These things are true even if we do not fully understand. They are true even if we don't believe them.

What happens when you die depends on what happens before you die. Here is my final word: Make sure you're ready to die so that when the time comes, you won't be surprised by what happens next.

Answer 6

Whatever you believe.

Personally I think that when people die then it is the end of them, but that they carry on in the hearts and minds of their friends. Eventually you may be forgotten about but whilst your friends and family are around they will be smiling and thinking of you.

Other people will say you carry on, others will say you just stop (like i believe) but whatever they say, if you remember those close to you when they are gone, memories last a lifetime.

Answer 7

You do go on after this life I can often smell someone who was close to me that died a few years ago.

Try this:-

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints in snow,
I am the sunlight and ripened grain.
I am the gentle Autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning hush,
I am the swift upflinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.

Answer 8

Physical existence ceases, and we go on living in other people's memories. Until the day they die. They too, live on in the memories of those who remain.

Before life ends, its still an open road.
The only way to find answers is to move on.

Answer 9

This is the Hindu & Buddhist belief:
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You change this body - like you change your clothes - and move on to another .
The new life you lead will be determined by your deeds in this life.
God is not concerned with your Karma - you are. He/ She is like a guide and a source of guidance to different faiths. But when the end comes, and you accept it gracefully and lovingly as an end to the suffering on earth - you attain a higher state of living and move closer to 'nothingness' or No existence ( i.e you are freed from the cycle of birth and rebirth )

Answer 10

What happens when we die – many interesting thing, and all at once or probably in a quick succession? You see, the people who die for us think that not them but the rest of the world has died instead - due to an apocalypse. And this may very well be justifiable keeping in view what happens to the each cell in human body upon death. This is why the dead do not come back for in their mind the world to come back to is no more. And as sole survivors of their apocalypse, they find themselves in a strange new world where they realise a new life, where first of all they need to find their opposite in sex to ensure the continuity of human race, and then a real fabulous place to live together in complete compliance with all the laws of God Almighty - the proof is that all scriptures and holy books give us vivid accounts of Paradise.

But there can be problems, for they still have links with the world that has all but gone, at least for them. The links are in form of the memories that they had gathered though out their lives. And then there are memories that they have left in the minds of people who are alive but they do not know. When those people think about them their memories then also simultaneously occur in both of the minds. What will happen next then is chiefly determined by what they have in their minds and what they have left in the minds of people who they do not know are now survivors of a different world. Prayers are purposeful memories packed full of goodness and strength. Good deeds, intentions, mentions and even simple world may also prove helpful but to reach to the world of the dead at the other edge of the universe all things have to be strong and very good.

Now about memories, for this is what actually happens to the people of the both world – the world of living, and the world of the dead, the meanings interchange for the both. The memories can be used as evidence against you - if you were a sinner that is. But if you have been a good person in life then your memories will get idealised, and will be used to construct a heaven, for you to reside in for the rest of the eternity. Once the construction job completed, your memories will come to entertain you, to charm you, and to make you feel just so good special. They will assume numerous pleasing shapes and form and will enact the events of the days of you life - each event idealised, each moment romanticised and each action dignified to perfection. This will be an endless feast for your senses in a countless ever so more ravishingly invigorating ways. You will never want it to finish and you wishes will be granted. The thing will be shown to you just as you would have expected or prayed them to happen with all the goodness of you heart and wisdom of your mind. You will be thankful that you had such memory. They are blessings pure.

But if, or if you have been a sinner in your possible poor little life, then you need to watch out for your memories when you pass away, as they will go with you wherever you will go. They will not change. They will stay the same - same as you brought them into existence. They will then get realised to their minute details. They will assume forms and shapes of most accentuated categories. They will be enacted just the way you lived them; just they way you dragged them into you life and then thought that you could do away with them easily. That will then be a life for you - a life most certainly without even a simplest remote control in your hands.

And here I must add, there will be another instance in between the two mentioned above. For if you have some memories of hope, faith or love in store, however small, they will battle it out for you against all the memories of less favourable nature. In between the regions of hell and heaven then there will be a battle raging on you behalf. If you have mixed memories then good memories will make sure that there is an ultimate triumph of hope and faith and love above all other things in heaven and on earth.

God Almighty bequeatheth life upon us, and all the blessing of life so generously and abundantly that often we fail to see the most obvious ones. The most important of all the blessings is our capacity for faith in life. Death is but a part of life, and not the other way round. If we have faith we can conquer death and experience glimpses of eternity even here and now. The style of my answer is deliberate but written with due respect and realisation of the loss of someone dear to you. May God rest them in peace!

Answer 11

The first question you must answer for yourself is who created this universe. Science teaches that energy can neither be created, nor destroyed. Therefore there is an energy that always has and always will exist.

Life only comes from life. Matter cannot come from nothing, nor can it be eradicated.

I believe in the Big Bang and evolution, yet these are only mechanisms, they do not explain Creation.

Ask God for answers and He will give them to you.

Only you can decide for yourself.