Death is a relative word that means change. Man goes from one dimension of existence into a higher form of existence. Or in a symbolic language from one world to a higher world. At each transition we have to change - die, in the ordinary language.
People who cease to have a physical existence continue to live but in a higher dimension, unknown to us for a very good reason.
That good reason can be the subject of a whole new question.
This may sound too esoteric but it is simple and an example will clarify it.
When we were in the womb of our mother we were in another world. We were living in a physiological world. It was completely different from this physical world.
When we abandoned the womb world (died to the womb world) and were born into the physical world, we didn't "go" to any other place. We stayed in the same place. We came into a new and higher dimension of existence, the physical world.
Similarly when we abandon the physical world we continue our existence in a more evolved or higher dimension that is not physical but spiritual.
So the next world is not a "place" where we will be going to. It is here. But in another dimension unknown to us, just as the physical world was unknown to the fetus.
Death does not exist even in the physical sense because all the atoms of our body continue to exist in some other form.
Now the purpose of the physiological world -the womb world- was to develop eyes, ears, lungs, feet, hands and brains that were of no use in that environment. Their necessity became apparent in the following world, this physical world.
The purpose of the physical world in which we live now, is to develop moral virtues and to put them to the service of mankind. The usefulness of the effort of polishing our character and acquiring moral virtues will become apparent in the other dimensions of life which are not material but spiritual.
Progress continues in all the worlds and is not limited to this physical world.
To conclude death has been wrongly interpreted during the infancy of humanity as non existence. There are many things in our modern world that we can not see or touch but in which we believe. Gravity, waves, etc.. are classical examples
2007-01-11 00:25:53
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answered by apicole 4
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Well, don't you think time is only of our dimension? Can you imagine there being no concept of time (kids do not have this, so therefore live more freely)? I very much believe in a life after death, as there is no real death. Where we are NOW is more like death, as our soul lives eternally on the other side/heaven/whatever you want to call it. I am not a God-preaching person at all, I have never even read the bible or go to church. I guess I tend to believe this because I have had, in dreams, conversations of my family members who have deceased and they are telling me things they could not know, and the entire room immediately smelled of Chanel #5 (her perfume) and I do not have perfume in the house as I am allergic to it. I have had many experiences like this and grew up in a so-called haunted house (which was not scary, more like amusing). You need to be more open minded as it seems you just don't know. Things will happen if you are more open minded and let things in.
2007-01-09 16:50:21
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answered by Jay Jay 5
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The resilience of the earth confounds many people who see no logical reason why it survives this long. What with the world wars, nuclear threats, overpopulation, environmental disasters and fears. Rather than being destroyed the earth shows increased capacity to sustain life and for self repair. I assume that by believing that there is real life after death, you accept that there is God and that He made earth and and the after death place. If He can keep and nourish the earth despite human efforts to pull it down, you can bet that he is able to make the after-life place limitless. The christian God says He holds the earth as by a hook and His heaven is eternal and forever. I think he has proved it by this earthly example
2007-01-09 17:31:43
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answered by Elder 3
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There is life after death, and that life will be forever.
Belief in this is a matter of faith. There is no physical proof in this physical world. Nobody came back from death to tell the tale.
As to making you believe, I won't even try.
But rest assured you will come to know. When your time comes, which may be a minute or a hundred years from now, ( or in-between) you will surely come to know.
By then the answer to your present question won't matter in any way.
2007-01-11 14:44:29
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answered by adsar 2
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I can't make you believe anything.
I can tell you that I briefly died, which is called a near death experience. I was traveling through the white light. It was the most peaceful feeling that is way beyond human understanding.
I believe in life after death because of my faith upbringing and mostly because I was on the edge of being there. It was incredable!
2007-01-10 01:21:17
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answer #5
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answered by clcalifornia 7
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No - there isn't, and if there was you would wish there wasn't. An eternity of anything, even perpetual bliss, would become torture after a few million years - with no possibility of imagining and end to it - so that if there was a heaven and hell, anyone in the former would plead to be sent to the latter eventually, just to experience a break from the eternal monotony of pleasure.
But luckily, you just get eaten by worms and that's it.
2007-01-09 16:56:58
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answered by jake h 2
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To know for sure that there is a life after death. One would have to of died and experienced it for himself then brought back to tell others what he seen. There has been these types of things that have happened before. Almost all of them experienced different things. Some say a bright light, others say angels and so on and so on. According to different religions they all have their different beliefs. So I guess you can make your own decision on those. I guess the only way that your ever really going to believe it is if you experienced it yourself. Seeing is believing.
2007-01-09 16:50:25
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answer #7
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answered by Malice 3
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if people were smarter and more concerned with this life they'd have no reason to believe in a life after death. i don't know if there is or what it would require, whether there are heavens or hells other than the ones create daily for ourselves, i wouldn't try to make anyone or convine them that such things exist. it simply is what it is. something you won't find out until you're pushing up daisies or found lying belly up in a river.
2007-01-09 16:53:48
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answered by will 4
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I do becuse it seems rather "odd" to me that we are the reason that the whole universe was made for, it is odd to believe that we came suddenly to this world and that we will go suddenly and then will go to heaven and stay there indefinitly. It just sounds foolish and beyond the power of resaon tht we have to believe such lame stories.
I see as reincarnation as one candle passing out its flame to another new candle, the new flame is NOT the old flame but the new flame WILL NOT HAVE HAPPENED if not for the old candle. Both are interconnected.
2007-01-13 06:34:25
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answered by The_Eye 2
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Your life right now is pure energy manifested in your human body, you exist because your energy is flowing in the right now of your human experience. Once you die, that energy will transform and experience somewhere else in adifferent form, for how long? we don´t know, but more than likely after that, the same energy will transform again and again, that´s is what energy is, doesn´t create or destroy just changes.
That very same energy comes from a source, which you may call God, and the same way it may go back to the source, with God.
2007-01-09 16:49:48
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answer #10
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answered by copita 3
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