When you're dead is that it, or is there an afterlife?

Answer 1

I personally think that's pretty much it. One shot, do not miss your chance to do it, do it, do it!!!

Answer 2

There is no evidence of an eternal soul. There is no evidence of an "afterlife" unless you discribe an after life as not living, i.e dead.

There is nothing to suggest we are anything other than biological organisms.

To explain what I mean, imagine a computer, with artifcial intelligence. A huge jolt of electricity is passed through the computer and the circuts are fried. There is no information there anymore, no A.I just a heap of uesless computer parts. In essence, the computer and any sort of intelligence that was there is now gone, or one could say "dead". There is no reason to assume that the computer has a soul that went to some sort of afterlife, and there is just as much evidence for a human afterlife.

I am not saying we are just computers that had a creator ;). It is just an analogy to help explain my point.

But put quite simply, we don't know. If what I said is true, we will never know. For if that is the case, then we in a sense have already experienced what it is like to be dead. For before you were born, you did not exist, just as you will not after your life ends.

Answer 3

While it might be nice to think we'll see our long dead relatives and will live a life of eternal bliss, without proof, its just fanciful thinking. Consider the following:

Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia
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Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.

Fact: most of the books of the bible were written by people who were never there, as second- or third-hand accounts decades or even centuries after the events they claim to tell about.

Fact: the books of the bible have been heavily edited over the centuries, with passages or even whole books being re-written or omitted to fit the theological and political climates of the time.

Fact: the books of the bible have also been subject to extensive errors, misinterpretations, and differences of opinion in interpretation as they are translated from one language to another and from that to yet another language.

To cushion man from the harsh reality of his inevitable death and annihilation, religion and the belief in an afterlife help cushion him from harsh reality.....sorry.

Answer 4

Afterlife

Answer 5

Religion is an indoctrination, driven mainly by the fear that when you are dead that's it, kaput for Eternity, the person that was you is gone forever, you are absoluty no more.

This (pardon the pun), scares the hell out of most of the human race, who cannot accept this fact. Hence the need to create a being who will rescue them when they die so that they can live for eternity (but only if they are good).

This is why there have always been theological arguments. Examples of which are:

"If there is a supreme being who supposedly loves us all, why does he allow so much suffering on Earth, especially to so many children who are such innocents? (Unless of course, Earth is actually Hell and we are all doing our penance here).

Why has he never demonstrated positively that he exists?

Why would a supreme being want us to worship him at all?"

Personally, I used to believe in an Omnipotent Being. Now I don't.

However, I believe that each of us is inorexably linked to the universe at the quantum level and that after we die our consciousness does live on at a different level that we can't connect to when we are 'alive'.

Finally, you don't need to be religious to treat other people with kindness, respect and charity.

Answer 6

when we die our brain is wiped, and put out again in another skin. Have you ever seen a child unable to cope with the modern world! Im all for afterlife.

Answer 7

when you meet someone who has died and returned to tell about it, let me know. In the meantime, it is all a mystery. There is no way to know what awaits us on the "other" side. I only know that if there is a "heaven" and some of the people in this life who claim they are headed there actually show up, I am not sure I want to go.

Answer 8

Go onto Youtube and look up different religions and look up atheism etc. Watch lots of diff oppinions. They also recommend many books (each oppinion has many books by diff people). You gota come to your own conclusion.

Just a couple of tips look up "greydon square" and "the rational response squard" .. plus all the obviouse religiouse names.

Answer 9

No living thing knows that. It's all about what you believe or hope. Nobody can say definitively that there is or isn't. Don't listen to other people who say what they believe is the indisputable truth. Read up on different ideas and make your own informed decision.

Answer 10

THAT, my friend, is a matter of what the individual believes. The EGYPTIAN civilisation, obviously, thought so, - otherwise, why did they bother with mummification, - and, the burying, WITH the Pharoah, of such beautiful things. I, myself, am a SKEPTIC, on the subject, - but, i would love to be proved WRONG!

Answer 11

I believe there is, there is also the belief that you come back as something else according how you were in this life, or that that's it nothing more. I sure there are a lot more out there :-) I don't think anyone unless they have died and come back can answer that, but even then who knows how the brain works.