When you die, does your spirit really go to a better place?

Question

Does your spirit really leave your body and go somewhere where there is eternal peace, joy and happiness? Can our loved ones really watch over us after they leave us? And are we really going to be reunited with them one day? Or when you die, that's it. Nothing else.

Answer 1

I just read the following in another post
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqNn975EABOYSmQdqe3ee.YjzKIX?qid=20070821030600AAXl3Ct
and was quite moved by it:



Your experience reminds me of something I read recently which, while not directly adressing heaven/hell, addresses what I firmly believe regarding life and death, I quote from it here:

Robert Blatchford, in his book God and My Neighbor, attacked with vigor accepted Christian beliefs, such as God, Christ, prayer, and immortality. He boldly asserted, "I claim to have proved everything I set out to prove so fully and decisively that no Christian, however great or able he may be, can answer my arguments or shake my case."6 He surrounded himself with a wall of skepticism. Then a surprising thing happened. His wall suddenly crumbled to dust. He was left exposed and undefended. Slowly he began to feel his way back to the faith he had scorned and ridiculed. What had caused this profound change in his outlook? His wife died. With a broken heart, he went into the room where lay all that was mortal of her. He looked again at the face he loved so well. Coming out, he said to a friend: "It is she, and yet it is not she. Everything is changed. Something that was there before is taken away. She is not the same. What can be gone if it be not the soul?"

Later he wrote: "Death is not what some people imagine. It is only like going into another room. In that other room we shall find . . . the dear women and men and the sweet children we have loved and lost."

Source(s):

http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,49-1-690-9,00.html

Answer 2

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) 5 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.
John 5:28 their will be a resurrection of the good and bad.
During Judgement day the resurrection occurrs. So this was only a illustration. would heaven be so wonderful if you could actually see those who were suffering?
Maybe some of your loved ones since it says that few are going to be in heaven? This is not a literal statement.
Few will be in heaven but a great crowd will live here on the earth. Those who will go to heaven will rule over the earth.
Yes, you will see loved ones again.

Answer 3

(Ecclesiastes 3:18-21) 18 I, even I, have said in my heart with regard to the sons of mankind that the [true] God is going to select them, that they may see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. 20 All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust. 21 Who is there knowing the spirit of the sons of mankind, whether it is ascending upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it is descending downward to the earth?

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) . . .For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. . .

Now remember Jesus promised a ressurection from the dead (John 5:28-30) . . .Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment. 30 I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Answer 4

We do not die. We only change form. We are Eternal Spirits and we go back to the place we came from - the Creator Energy. We will see our loved ones again and yes I believe they watch over us.

Answer 5

Well since no one has died and come back to life how would anyone know? I see no reason to believe in some sort of afterlife. I see plenty of reasons to have wishful thoughts about a better place after we perish, but that's all I see it as--wishful thinking.

Beware of the person who claims to know that which he doesn't. His motives should be subjected to close scrutiny.

Answer 6

total crapshoot

Answer 7

maybe yes and maybe no. nobody's come back to tell us about it.