Someone you know very well is killed. Their body is immediately cryogenically frozen. 75 years from now, this person's brain is revived, and attached to a sophisticated computer interface that allows it to have sensory input and output... speech, sight, hearing, smell, etc.
You are shocked to discover that this IS your friend. The brain knows you, it recognizes you, it has all your friends memories down to the smallest detail, and it understands exactly what has happened to it. It speaks to you, and you to it. There is no denying that this IS your friend, brought back to life - albeit with the aid of technology.
Your friend then tells you that during the 75 years that passed, there was nothing. No light, no tunnel, no booming voice. No cognition, no sense of the passage of time, no experiences whatsoever. Just a split second between the end of life, and the start of life.
Think about it, because it's not that far out of the realm of possibility. Maybe not now, but someday.
2007-05-15 17:14:37 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ever see Pet Semetary? What "if" when the friend "returns" it is just a "physical" resurrection without the SPIRIT? Within us all are "two" separate "existances" whether we like it or not. Mankind may overcome "one" of those existances, but what is it going to do about the other one?.......
2007-05-15 17:24:07 · answer #1 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of a question is this? A person dies but is frozen and when 'unfrozen' the person claims there was nothing?
Have you no religious training or understanding at all? Man can NOT invent a machine that will prevent the afterlife that GOD has created. When you die, you will meet your maker. Where as no one can prove that there is an afterlife, no one can prove there is NOT one either because, either way, you have to be dead and the dead tell no tales.
At any rate, the afterlife is not to be dreaded by those who have lead an upright life. On the other hand, either God grades on a curve, or a whole lot of people will be permanently vacationing down below.
2007-05-16 00:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by bebop_music 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Maybe not now, but someday."
Wow.. that's one heck of an assumption How do you know one day that will be the case? We have no technology now to even attach a computer to a LIVE persons brain and read their thoughts. Where exactly do people come up with this nonsense? Your talking about bringing a dead person back to life!
2007-05-16 00:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by Proverbs 1:7 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's an interesting hypothetical, but honestly I don't think a human body can be animated without the soul in it.
If my friend actually died, then his soul left him at that time. All that was left is the body. You could perhaps get some crude impulses out of it, but no "life force" that animates it as the soul does.
Did you create this example because you already deny life after death, or are you merely curious about technology might be able to accomplish?
2007-05-16 00:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it is my understand that a dead person who is cryogenetically frozen has no hope of coming back to life (this is something that could have possibly changed). something to do with the ice crystals tearing through the cells ect... of course we may have found a way to revive them but i have no knowledge of such a discovery.
please correct me if i am wrong.
but i will assume that he WAS revived. then there is no doubt that he will indeed see nothing. unfortunately some christians have the idea that we immediately go to heaven. when we die, we die. it is my belief that God will ressurect us at the same time.
2007-05-16 00:21:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sapphire 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will never happen with science.....we can want it...but I believe it will never happen..God is the giver of life. If there was an afterlife..real people would have proved it by now..real dead people coming back to life..that has never happened..no dead person in their new start in a new life has ever come back to tell us..so expecting science to be able to do it with cryogenics and technology will never be able to do it..technology etc will never be anywhere near as smart as our Creator...
2007-05-16 00:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hm. This seems like an extreme case of NDE. :)
Susan Blackmore's book "Dying to Live" and some other things I've read have already convinced me that there is no afterlife. There's just no plausible mechanism, it raises more questions than it answers, and the naturalistic explanation should always be preferred IMO.
2007-05-16 00:23:37 · answer #7 · answered by Mom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Great question!
Perhaps there wouldn't be "just a split second between the end of life, and the start of life". Guess we'll just have to wait and find out!
2007-05-16 00:20:14 · answer #8 · answered by Ajo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This little cryo story is not proof of anything except here again,lets put some limitations on God. Wake-up people. God has no limits. Anything is possible with God. As free will spirits, we write our own scenarios for each life we choose. Wake-up people, life after death has been proven! God/Heaven or your Hell has no time clock!
2007-05-16 00:52:45 · answer #9 · answered by spiritcoach 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Simply stated the "Christian" church as a whole doesn't understand death. You do not go to heaven when you die you are in "hell" or the grave. You are called forth at the second coming. Until then you are dead you know nothing.
How is it that the dead in Messiah could rise at His coming at his shout if they are already there? The "christian" doctrine in not well thought out.
2007-05-16 00:23:23 · answer #10 · answered by Tzadiq 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋