what happens when we die?

Question

i mean all religions have different ideas about it, but noone really knows for sure, do they?

Answer 1

We all go up to the spirit in the sky. (old song)
I am a Christian believer. But I believe that there are many paths to the same destination.
If you study cultures over time........there is always some sort of higherpower- there is a world wide flood story- and basic human rights and wrongs- and a belief in an after life.

I know that conservative Christians would be upset with me.
But, when my son died at the age of 21 I became astounded at the magisty of life and death & the universe. I have had time to think hard about all of this. I truely believe that religion......one religion can't be forced in to each society.
I am not against missionarys. But, why would a loving God send a group of natives in South America who live on the Amazon to hell because they don't have the white man's religion?? They have never heard of it. Really. If God Created the universe, then why would He be so very narrow minded? Why would he make religion the source of eternal life? We would all fail. Even churchie people.
I believe we are spiritual creatures on an earthly experience.

The universe is much too awsome for there to be one narrow Way to the Creator.

I also believe in evolution, which was from the hand of God.

I have a feeling that some conservative church going people will be very amazed when they reach the other side at how very gracious and accepting the Creator is.

None of us know for sure. I think only a person of great faith can admit that. Becasue the nature of faith is believing in something we can't prove or see.

Remember the bisic beliefs...creator- world flood-morals-afterlife. Each culture most likey messes up the simple Way to Eternal life by their own religious pretences.

I personally had a death experience. also known as a near death experience. When I arrived at the hospital my blood pressure was 30 over Zero. I went in to the white light. I was free of all pain, free of fear, fear of insecurities, free of everything human. I didn't even mind that I was dying. I said to myself Wow this is cool. I am dying, but I really thought I would be older. I loved the complete freedom from human fears and emotions. I thought about the good in my life, inspite of the bad, Then the face of my youngest grandaughter crossed my mind and I suddenly had a hesitation about dying. I hated to let go of that peaceful feeling. then I head the doctor begging me to open my eyes and come back. I was still in the white light but the pure peace & joy wasn't there anymore. I opened my eyes and I had extreem pain, fear, anxitey,etc. I closed my eyes again hoping to go back to the white light. When I closed my eyes again, all was black, the white light was gone.
That experience convinces me that there is some sort of after life. I can't say what it is. I believe it is beyond our understanding.

Some people might say that they are sureof what they believe about death, but I think they are in denial over the fear of what actually happens when death comes our way.

You asked a good question. I don't know if there is an answer.Because the answers are based on assumptions and nuturing.

Answer 2

All religions are based on ideas and stories made up by ignorant savages. Just like all belief, it is just a bunch of words. All of religion is equally propaganda to control populations for political and economic purposes. It is easy to see that religion cannot answer questions truthfully if truth removes the prize they have people chasing. The prize most religions offer is some form of continuation of the ego. The language is modeled in some way that provides life after life, in which we can recognize ourselves.

If you are as most people, your self image is rich with physical images and sensations. These transitory images and sensations are created inside the body by easy to understand neurochemical articulations in the body tissues, principally the brain.

So if your body dies, what is going to produce the nuerochemical changes that you experience as images and sensations? Do you really think your ego will continue after the mechanism for creating it has died?

No one knows for sure. That is true. Are there any reasons to believe the egocentric promises of religions? No. Are there any reasons to believe there is life after life? No. That is what death is. It is the end of specific life. Life continues, just not a particular life. All particular lives will end. Finally, some billions of years in the future, the Sun will explode and life will end.

So what happens when we die? The best guess is what we can see happening. Everything about the living state of the organism stops. That looks like everything. If a body is left undisturbed, it will melt away into the soil in relatively few months. All during that time there will be no signs of life. Finally vegetation will cover where the body once lay. Gone. Why would you think that the ego has somehow managed to escape that finality?

All talk of forms of life after life seem to me to be self deceit. And why would I want to deceive myself?

Answer 3

Isuppose every religion wrestles with the role of the dead. According to Judaism the souls of the dead were in Sheol(hebrew for the underworld or hell.) The only way to escape Sheol or hell was to live a perfect life. This is exactly why God sent His Son. you know John 3:16. The history of man was and is written by the finger of God. I'm sure you know the rest,. T4

Answer 4

I believe that the energies that compose our conscious, subconcious and unconcious minds dissapate back into the enviroment where it was originally drawn from chaos. We have completely and total ego split.

Our existance is severed into bits or waves which are all dispersed. We are no longer an individual but rather a dispersal of potential energies to be, in turn, redrawn into newer lifeforms. Our individualism can be expressed with a mathematical equation which calculates how many different parts of conciousness compose the collection of an individual. Ok, that's all I can make up on the spot.I believe that atheism and agnostisism offer great range of thought, however.

Answer 5

Judging by the responses here, it's clear that many people WANT to believe in life after death. To me, life after death is a paradox. You can't have life after death, as death is the end of life and there can't life once it has ended. I think most people find the reality of death too hard to contemplate, after all we raised to believe we are the centre of the universe so it can be hard to accept that we are simply biological vessels like all the other animals.

People just want easy answers - yes you will go to heaven if you believe in this myth or that myth. They never bother to ask further questions, such as "and then what?". Proof if anything that we are still very much juvenile in our mindset as a species.

Answer 6

To find perfect answer, we need to wait for our death.
No body knows really what is going to happen after death. Why i am sure is, we are still alive and no records in out mind about what happened before our birth.
Everybody believes something. But nothing is experienced yet by living beings.

Answer 7

who knows?i know....really who is God?do u believe that everything has areason to be?then God is that reason!be sure,how does a lil baby grow up n become a useless old guy?!the God is its reason.look at the nature,the seasons come n go the ground die n becomes alive again u see that?ok God is the reason.wen i read the holy book(depends on ur religion)i feel strange i feel that someone is here to hear me to help me,the tune the melody of the sentences its really weried n if U read it even once u wont deny it u cant.
u believe that u r made of ur mom n dad?so who made THEM?who created adam n Eve?they were made of seeds?!like plants?so who made that seed for the first time?!even if it was from outerspace some one must've made it yeah?ok n u think u r here to live like a leech n die n come to soil?!u r just ur body?!so wat abt ur energy and behaivior?they aint material and this is wat we call soul n spirit.u think all the religions r stupid stories?!wow what an inteligent creator they have,very creative.
wat is heaven n hell?!its the result of ur actions,even who is satan?he is a part of U,humanity n causes u to act like an animal!!!!
paradise n heaven aint places thay r a time in which u see wat u have done in this world,ok now wat do u think?!

Answer 8

What I think is about the same? Whatever religions you believe in! you do good did ....you go to heaven or else you goes to hell? becoming ghost..... or reincarnation....these kind of things! I have not encounter it ..... But what I know for sure is that when someone DIE..... He will turn in to DUST and his LIFE END!

Answer 9

Your body lies in the ground and rots. Sad but true. Your energy, or whats left goes into the soil, and returned to the Earth. I happen to believe in the possibility of anything. So who knows about an afterlife. I'd like to be ever young, surrounded by all of my fav people, like Jimi Hendrix or Alf.

Answer 10

The Law of Conservation of Souls happens.