is there life after death?

Question

just asking if anyone knows for sure

Answer 1

Anyone who claims to know this is lying.

Answer 2

Nobody knows.


Lots of people will claim that there is, and then tell you lots of different versions of what it will be like.

This tells you that they do not really know, but that they really, really want there to be life after death. Unfortunately no amount of faith can change reality. Faith can not move a mountain, it takes a lot of men and machines to do that.

As far as I can see there is no reason to believe that there is anything after death. I have no recollection of events before I was born, I suspect that this will be the same state I will return to when I die - a state of non-existence.

Anyone who claims otherwise needs to provide some hard evidence rather than just what their holy book or priest told them.

Answer 3

THIS IS A WRONG QUESTION, basically meaningless. One should never jump ahead of oneself: there is every possibility that you will fall on your face. One should ask the basic question, one should begin at the beginning. My suggestion is: ask a more basic question.

For example, you can ask, "Is there life after birth?" That would be more basic, because many people are born but very few people have life. Just by being born you are not alive. You exist, certainly, but life is more than mere existence. You ARE born, but unless you are reborn into your being, you don't live, you never live.

Birth is necessary, but not enough. Something more is needed, otherwise one simply vegetates, one simply dies. Of course, it is a very gradual death -- and you are so unaware that you never know it, you never become aware of it. From birth to death, it is a long progression of death. It is very rare to come across an alive person. A Buddha, a Jesus, a Kabir -- they are alive. And this is the miracle: that those who are alive never ask the question: "Is there life after death?" They know it. They know what life is, and in that knowing, death has disappeared. Once you know what life is, death exists not. Death exists only because you don't know what life is, because you are yet unaware of life, its deathlessness.

You have not touched life, hence the fear of death exists. Once you have known what life is, in that very moment, death has become nonexistential.

Bring light into the dark room, and the darkness disappears; know life, and death disappears. A person who is really alive simply laughs at the very possibility of death. Death is impossible; death cannot exist, in the very nature of things: that which is will remain, has remained always. That which is cannot disappear. But not theoretically; you have to come to this experience existentially.

Ordinarily this question remains in the mind, whether you ask it or not: the question, "What happens after death?" because nothing has happened before death, that's why the question. Because life has not happened even after birth, how can you believe and trust that life is going to happen even after death? It has not happened after birth, how can it happen after death? And one who knows life knows that death is another birth and nothing else. Death is another birth; a new door opens. Death is the other side of the same door you call birth: from one side the door is known as death, from the other side the door is known as birth.

Death brings another birth, another beginning, another journey -- but this will be just speculation to you. This will not mean much unless you know what life is. That's why I say, ask the right question.

A wrong question cannot be answered, or it can be answered only in a wrong way. A wrong question presupposes a wrong answer. Experience is the goal, not philosophizing -- and only experience solves the riddle.

You are born, but not yet really born. A rebirth is needed; you have to be twice-born. The first birth is only the physical birth, the second birth is the real birth: the spiritual birth. You have to come to know yourself, who you are. You have to ask this question: Who am I? And while life is there, why not enquire into life itself? Why bother about death? When it comes, you can face it and you can know it. Don't miss this opportunity of knowing life while life surrounds you.

If you have known life, you will have certainly known death -- and then death is not the enemy, death is the friend. Then death is nothing but a deep sleep. Again there is a morning, again things will start. Then death is nothing but rest -- a tremendous rest, needed rest. After the whole life of toil and tiredness, one needs a great rest in God. Death is going back to the source, just as in sleep.

Every night you die a little death. You call it sleep; it would be better to call it a little death. You disappear from the surface, you move into your innermost being. You are lost, you don't know who you are.

You forget all about the world, and the relationship, and the people. You die a small death, a tiny death, but even that tiny death revives you. In the morning you are full of zest and juice again, again throbbing with life, again ready to jump into a thousand and one adventures, ready to take the challenge. By the evening you will be tired again.

This is happening daily. You have not even known what sleep is; how can you know death? Death is a great sleep, a great rest after the whole life. It makes you anew, it makes you fresh, it resurrects you.

Answer 4

If you mean if we have soul that separates from our body and live on, then NO. Since the soul is the person, clearly, the soul dies when the person dies. Is there life then after death? No. For the Bible clearly state in Ezekiel 18:4 "The soul that is sinning—it ITSELF WILL DIE."

Simply put, death is the opposite of life.

Answer 5

See this is always a tough question to answer if I say 'yes' then people say 'I don't really know' and if I say 'no' then I get angry people telling me things...but...really really I guess I don't know, I've never died and then came back. And when I tell you all the ghosts I've talked too well you'll just think I'm crazy.
But, yes death is not the end. I know people who know (other than ghosts)
Really it doesn't matter what we tell you, in the end it all comes down to what you believe.

Answer 6

Yup, there is.
Rather than you're not sure 'bout it but heard that the life after death is eternity, you should believe it.

It's stated in Quran, but you'll not living as humans in this world again. OTHER world.

Answer 7

Death is only an identification with the form or body. Life is eternal and you must discover the LIFE in you so as not to mis-identify yourself.

Answer 8

Rejecting Jesus Christ is death eternal, or seperation from God forever in hell where there is termoil and pain.

Receiving Jesus Christ is Life eternal, or to be with God forever in Heaven, where there is pleasure and joy.

Of course there is life after death.

Answer 9

No. There is not. There is an absolute paucity of empirical evidence to support the hypothesis of life after death.

Answer 10

Anyone knows for sure? No one knows for sure.

Wait..there are people who absolutely know what happens after death, without doubt?! I got to contact em!

Answer 11

There is actually evidence to point to such.
Read "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation", published some time ago by the American Association for Psychical Research.