What happens to us after our death?

Answer 1

hopefully we go on to better things

Answer 2

Death is related to the body the sense organs the mind the intellect and not to me . I am "energy" or the "consciousness" or the " soul" or the "witness" or the "awareness" or the "spirit" but not the body. Body for me is like a single entry time bound Visa to visit planet Earth. When the body drops me becoz Visa has expired or the body is become useless its called Death and after that I go back to my original HOME and again start to contemplate what will I do on Earth during my next visit.

Answer 3

Some collection of comments by great people on this point:
"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
-Socrates
"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew ... it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums.... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me.... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born."
-Jack London
The Star Rover
"There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nobel laureate
Stories from Behind the Stove
"He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships ... become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another."
-Herman Hesse,
Nobel laureate
Siddhartha
" 'Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! ... We choose our next world through what we learn in this one.... But you, Jon, learned so much at one time that you didn't have to go through a thousand lives to reach this one.' "
-Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life ... and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God."
-Count Leo Tolstoy
For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval He is not slain when the body is slain.
Bhagavad-gétä 2.20
In 1974, at the ISKCON center in the countryside near Frankfurt, West Germany, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda had the following dialogue with Professor Karlfried Graf von Durckheim. Professor Durckheim, a noted religious psychologist and author of Daily Life as Spiritual Exercise, holds a Ph. D. in analytic psychology and is renowned for establishing a therapeutic school in Bavaria that incorporates both Western and Eastern approaches to the psychology of consciousness. In this conversation Çréla Prabhupäda explains the.first and most basic principle of reincarnation-that the spiritual living entity is different from the material body. After establishing that the conscious self and the body are separate entities. Sr/la Prabhupäda describes how the conscious self, or soul, perpetually transmigrates to another body at the time of death.

Answer 4

Basically what you asked is very difficult to answer as its not a one line answer any more. It has become a science. I will suggest you to read the book ' Life after Death' by Swami Avedananda of Sri Ramkrishna Mission.
I am sure you will get your answers there as it is the best book I have ever read on this topic.

Answer 5

When death happens,ie., when the body perishes the eternal indestructible soul within the body goes to another body according to one's karma. Just as one changes new clothes when old cloth is torn, similarly we accept another body(new cloth) when the old body is torn(dies). Just as when a old house we are dwelling collapses, we enter a new house, similarly we give up our old body(where soul lives) and enter new body(house).

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.Bhagavad-gita-2.12 & 13

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both. Bhagavad-gita-2.16
An excerpt from the purport by Srila Prabhupada.
There is no endurance of the changing body. That the body is changing every moment by the actions and reactions of the different cells is admitted by modern medical science; and thus growth and old age are taking place in the body. But the spirit soul exists permanently, remaining the same despite all changes of the body and the mind. That is the difference between matter and spirit. By nature, the body is ever changing, and the soul is eternal. This conclusion is established by all classes of seers of the truth, both impersonalist and personalist. In the Vishnu Purana (2.12.38) it is stated that Vishnu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotimsii vishnur bhuvanani vishnuh). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.

That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.
Bhagavad-gita-2.17

Lord Krishna gives in verses 22 to 25, further information.
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.

Further, Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to the three modes of material nature, Bhagavad-gita(14.18).
"Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds".

Answer 6

Nobody knows for sure what happens after death.

It's a mystery which will unwrap in time... called death. And dead man don't talk, while alive, will have to wait for the answer.

Your belief in religion gives your much insights of it.

Answer 7

According to the Bible when we die we go into a state of unconsciousness devoid of any activity whatsoever.

we return to dust awaiting the resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous at God's own appointed time.

Until that time all the dead are in mankinds' common grave and the natural processes of decomposition takes place.

Answer 8

It depends. Everyone has eternal life! EVERYONE. But those who are saved and born again believers and followers of Christ. will follow christ and live forever in heaven with him. If you don't spend your life with christ you will spend your eternal life away from him in Hell. But God loves you and dosnt want this for you. If you repent and go to heaven you will live in a city with walls made of gems thousands of feet hight. The streets are gold so pure it looks like glass. Angels serve you , you will attend feasts and you are in a state of constant happienss and rest. There is no sunlight. God is there with you and he is so glorious he fills heaven with light in a way that there are no shadows. And the best part is, the bible only gives us a hint of how wonderfull it be.

Answer 9

When one dies, the immortal soul leaves the body. If a person is just, he goes to heaven. If not, to hell. Judgement is made at the time of his/her death. God rewards the just and punishes the wicked. Your mortal body meanwhile returns to ash from where it came.

Answer 10

It depends on what transpires during the time of death.
The soul is troubled because of it's attachment to the body.
What ever state you remember during your dying moments is the one you will attain.
So that is why it is advised to remember god daily so that we can remember him at the time of death and attain to his kingdom.

Answer 11

The process of accountability begins, for the acts done in the life on Earth.