is there really life after Death?

Answer 1

I frequently ponder this question. For me it comes down to the question is there a God? The more I think about it, the more I think the answer is yes. One reason is this. Have you ever felt the beauty of the sun rise? Felt the love between your family? Felt happiness when you've laughed amongst friends? Even felt the grief of a loved ones death? The fact that these things happen does not prove anything, but the emotions that we feel cannot be explained. These emotions are given to us by a higher source and make us human.

Answer 2

Really? For REAL really? No one knows.
People know this much and not any more:
A) If you have children, your genetic material survives your life as an individual.
B) If you are an artist of any kind, your work can survive.
C) If someone loves you while you're alive, they keep a nice memory about you after you're gone. Or, alternately, if people hate you while you're alive, they remember you in a negative way.

So those are the real realities of what really survives after death; one physical, one mental, one spiritual. These things are real regardless of what other things you might choose to believe.

My advice: live as long as you can. Love boldly, deeply and show your love. Then die peacefully without regrets.

Answer 3

I'm a little confused. Life before birth is in the womb for nine months. But life after death is merely the fact that the body dies little by little, so that hair and fingernails continue to grow for a little while. If we say life before conception, then the parallel is closer. But what I really think you mean is not life, but consciousness or awareness. There is no function without the structure to do that function. Therefore, there can be no consciousness before or after there is a brain to do it with.

Answer 4

This is such a dynamic question as the answer depends on the beliefs of the person you are asking the question to. If you ask for example very Pious muslin or christian they will tell you that there definatly is life after death. Personally i believe there is life after death but not in this world, the beliefs that i have is that we go on to a better life in a different world

Answer 5

I don’t know. There is no real proof. Although sometimes it feels like I’ve already lived my life and was given a second chance at it for some reason? So, I dunno. It would be nice to know what really happens after we die. Is that really it? Do we really have a sole and it leaves us?

I never really believed or go to church but I watch Montel and he has a special guest on there all the time and she says yes, we have lived another life... man, I don't know. I guess it's something you have to decided for yourself.

Answer 6

The reason it's not theoretical is because it can't be evidently proven or disproved. Some people can argue that there is or is NOT an afterlife, but it would most probably be based on belief systems or evidence that is debatable.

Acquire your own set of beliefs that make sense to you, and provide a sense of personal fulfillment. There is no right or wrong answer. It's what YOU feel is right.

Answer 7

No one can really answer this question. It is unknown really what happens after death, but if you are religious, with any religion, you have your own beliefs of what happens after death. I am pagan and I believe in reincarnation. I believe the Gods give you many chances to redeem yourself. If you fail every time you will have to suffer the consequences, just as in any other religion. Believe what you want to believe, not what anyone else tells you.

Answer 8

Well, that is up to everyone to decide.

Since no one alive is qualified to say.

I personally just live my life the best way I can and in the way I want, enjoy myself and be a good person. If at the end it really is the end then I have no regrets, if there is more then great but I don't want to be at the end, looking back on my life and regretting it.

Believe want you want to believe and don't listen to anyone else

Answer 9

You're asking this question on Yahoo! Answers? I'm sorry, hon, but get real. If you really want to know, talk to a pastor or a guidance counselor. Or commit suicide, (that's not intended to actually make you want to kill yourself) then you'll really know. But don't put up a controversial question on a giant web site, because nothing's actually going to be resolved.

Answer 10

Modern science describes the universe and human beings without reference to a soul or to an afterlife. Scientific method offers few tools for investigating the concepts, and mainstream scientists generally regard claims of scientific evidence for an afterlife to be pseudoscience. However, some investigation has occurred into the biological and experiential aspects of death and near-death experience.

Modern scientific psychology and cognitive science explain human behavior solely in terms of phenomena of the physical brain, and either do not require the presence of a non-brain "soul" or "spirit" that might be expected to continue a separate existence after the death of the brain, or rule it out a priori. However, the nature of consciousness and sentience itself is a subject of ongoing debate. Is consciousness a sole result of the specific configuration of matter of a living brain, or do some forms of consciousness or experience remain present in the matter and energy that used to be a living brain? If the mind and the brain are not completely interdependent, then it is not certain that the subjective experience of a being's consciousness ends at the time of death, which means that scientific biology and psychology may not necessarily rule out theories involving a soul or existence after death. One new aspect of the debate is the possibility of creating an artificial intelligence, raising new questions about what it means to be alive, conscious, dead, and resurrected.


[edit] Philosophical arguments
Some non-believers in an afterlife, influenced by positivism, have argued that claims of an afterlife are unverifiable and unfalsifiable, and therefore cognitively meaningless. Some have argued that, on the contrary, particular claims concerning the nature of the afterlife are verifiable and falsifiable: all one has to do to verify/falsify them is die. On the other hand, they argue, the belief in the absence of an afterlife can be attacked as vacuous on the grounds that the statement "I cease to exist" is unverifiable, unfalsifiable, and therefore by the same token cognitively meaningless. In particular, the concept of our own non-existence is inconceivable:

What experience corresponds to your own non-existence? None.
If there is a life after death, then is there a life before birth? And if there was, can that experience be remembered?
Schopenhauer in particular argued that the idea of an afterlife or immortal soul is contradicted by the fact that it is impossible to attach sense to such a concept as the soul without reference to characteristics such as consciousness, which depend on such physical entities as the brain. Such concepts he argued, are beyond our reach and noumenal (thus unknowable). A counter-argument to that is that consciousness does not directly depend on physical entities, merely that our bodies are merely "temporary tools crafted by our souls" (which leads back to the idea of reincarnation).


[edit] Science Fiction
There are many books and science fiction writers that dream up an increasing amount of theories about death. Some examples are the idea that this is all just a dream, or some alien experiment that we will wake up from. The Matrix movies made the idea of a false notion of being alive very popular. Star Trek also made the hologram deck idea popular and a possible cause of all that we sense, think, and feel. Notions of time travellers that can move from one universe to the next have also become popular on television and in movies. The idea that the human body can be cloned forever, and that one will never die in the future is also a common science fiction claim. Some science fiction deals with memories being erased or implanted and various bodies can have the same illusionary and/or true memories downloaded. Cryogenics is already a possible choice today with the belief that future science and medicine techniques will bring the frozen body back to life.


[edit] Other Beliefs
There are many different beliefs about what is after death, and even more recently due to the rise and influence of many more religious sects, cults, and the new age movement. A few cults have claimed that aliens in spaceships will take us away once we are dead. Others claim that aliens are breeding us for experiments, or performing tests on us. There is no end to the imaginary ways that we might truly exist and then die. We could be time travellers, or forever repeating in an eternal cycling of universes. Nietzsche wrote about the idea of the eternal return, where we will repeat forever all of our worst and best actions. Other beliefs today involve past life regressions, and reincarnation in ever more complicated ways. For example, one could simply be waking up from dreams within dreams, and never awakening into the real body for a very long time. There is the idea that this is all an illusion, or pure energy, and that we create our own reality, or move to parallel universes. Some believe that we manifest reality based on what we expect or unconsciously wish. The possibilities seem endless, and many wonder if there is a best way to describe what happens after death, making most beliefs mere opinions and full of false statements.