This question is for everyone...Where do YOU think we go when we die?

Question

I want to hear from Christians, atheists, believers, non-believers, and people from all walks of life....

I want to know what your personal belifes are, and what your religion says we go.

Everyone has a different answer and it's wonderful!

Okay, I want to add this, is it normal to be scared? Would you be scared if you knew you'd be dying soon?

Answer 1

I think we reincarnate. I think this because of the empirical study of children with spontaneous past-life memories.

I'm a Unitarian. Unitarianism doesn't have any dogmas; it's up to us to decide what we believe.

Answer 2

I don't really conform to any one belief about religion. I don't think anyone has it all right. My personal belief is that there is Heaven and Reincarnation. I don't believe in Hell. I think we are put on this planet to fulfill a series of tasks. If we don't fulfill those tasks before our time runs out, we're sent back as many times as necessary. When we do what we're supposed to do, we go to Heaven.

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My mother is dying. She has been given a less than five percent chance of surviving until Christmas. She is not at all scared. She has actually been making her own funeral arrangements. She says when you get close to the end, you aren't afraid anymore- a calmness comes over you. I hope she's right and this is true for everyone and not just her. I think it's normal to be afraid to die because we are all afraid of the unknown- maybe, though, when we get close enough to see the end and it's not completley unknown anymore, we can make ourselves not fear it anymore.. just a thought.

Answer 3

I believe in karma and reincarnation, therefore this scenario:

When we leave the physical body, we go to the astral plane where we meet with a "guide" who reviews our past life with us ... all actions, good and bad. We decide together the set of circumstances for the next lifetime whereby we will have the best opportunity to pay the karma and learn the lessons we failed in the previous lifetime. We continue to reincarnate back to the physical plane, (although not necessarily immediately) until such time we "get it right" ... then we go to the kingdom of heaven.

Answer 4

i believe what the bible says about death. So, what does the Bible say happens at death? Notice carefully: “The living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing…there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10). “For in death there is no remembrance of You, in the grave who shall give You thanks?” (Psalms 6:5). “The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence” (Psalms 115:17). “His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth, in that very day his thoughts perish” (Psalms 146:4). These Bible verses say that after death a person knows nothing, has no thoughts, doesn’t remember God, and lies silent in the grave. This is God’s Word, not man’s opinion. Death is sleep.Dead Christians “sleep in Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 4:14). Daniel wrote that at the end of time, “many who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2). Thus the dead are sleeping in the dust of the earth. Someday, they will wake up.the Christians’ hope is the return of Jesus Christ and the resurrection. When our Lord returns, “the dead in Christ shall rise…so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17). Paul said Christians will “be with the Lord” when He returns. Jesus taught the same thing when He promised His disciples, “I will come again, and receive you to Myself” (John 14:3). Jesus did not say, “I’ll meet you in Heaven when you die,” but that He would receive us when He returns.“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” Paul is clearly talking about a transition from this sinful “body” to being “present with the Lord.” There is no question about this. But notice carefully that in this verse Paul doesn’t specifically say when this transition occurs. Paul said, Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (1 Corinthians 15:51-55)For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17)

Answer 5

You go back to the ground and are conscious of nothing.
Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 10-- "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.....there is no work, nor divising, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in She'ol, the place to which you are going." Sheol is the common grave, not a place of torment either.

Answer 6

I think we go home. Some people call it heaven (and many other names) but to me it is where we come from. I believe that we are creatures of spirit who come here to the physical plane to learn something specific. When our time here is over we go home and very likely start making plans to come back again after some rest. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

Peace!

Answer 7

Jesus spoke this story which tells about the afterlife. If you notice the first 2 words in verse 19 - "There was" this indicates this actually happend.

The Rich Man and Lazarus
19"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23In hell,[c] where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'

25"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'

27"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

29"Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'

30" 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

31"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "

Answer 8

I truly believe there is something better out there....I worked as a Hospice aid for 3 years and have been with people when they have taken their last breath........some of them had such an angelic, beautiful smile on their face when they passed, like they were happy to be going "into the light". Mostly it was the patients who had accepted their fate and who had a supporting, loving family around them. I had one patient who had alzheimers, she could only speak jibberish, you could not understand her at all. Just before she passed she put her arms out and spoke to her husband (deceased) and told him she was "coming to be with him" in a perfectly clear voice. This honestly happened-it made me have goose bumps. I also believe in the power of prayer. I was raised Catholic, however, I do not believe in alot of their doctrines, I do not attend church. I believe our "spirits" leave our body and that there is an "afterlife".

Answer 9

I'm wiccan, So Summerland until we're reincarnated is my guess. It's alright to be scared, but personally I don't see what there is to be scared of. Life is the scary place lo.

Answer 10

I think we just come to an end. Just hope that I get buried somewhere nice, and have a tree planted on top of me. That way at least whats left will be useful.

Answer 11

We bounce around for a while on the spiritual plane, debriefing what we learned during this lifetime, and come back down again to learn more when we're ready.

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