What do you believe happens once we die?

Question

i don't know about you but i'm really interested in what happens once we've gone.

Answer 1

Physically you decay! Spiritually, it's the age old question, if you have a religious belief, then you go to heaven, or hell, or whatever name your particular religion gives to these places!
Some people believe there is no after life, and so when you end you end! I like to believe as Einstein said, that energy never dies, so perhaps our energy reunites with some form of energy bank if you like, to be used again when needed, perhaps to form another human being, or some other kind of animal, maybe a tree or a plant, I don't know! But I refuse to believe our energy/ life force just simply dissipates!!

Answer 2

I don't know what happens when we die as I haven't experienced it. So far there is no good evidence I've seen for an afterlife so this is the only life I am planning on. Our thoughts, memories, ability to feel, and personality are all products of our functioning organic brain which stops functioning and decays at death. I love life so I don't wish to die but until the time comes it doesn't affect me. Once I am dead if there is no afterlife I won't care as I won't realize it at all. I don't find afterlife beliefs based on human mythology plausible. Death can only bother me to the extent I waste the time I have to be alive and use my life instead thinking about being dead. This seems like foolishness to me. I think of death as an inevitability like growing old and getting gray hair and wrinkles. Just because I don't like the idea doesn't mean it won't happen or I can just believe a story that says it won't and avoid it. So what makes sense is to make the best that I can of it and enjoy it where its possible, minimize the downsides where I can, use my time wisely, and embrace change. My life is not meaningless because what I do in it and with it leaves a legacy that shapes the future. Raising a child, working to shape a world that will value equality and human rights, educating children, etc... all our choices impact the present and the future I think whether we are immortal or not. Yes, energy can be neither created nor destroyed but that doesn't mean it continues on in this form as this organization that I recognize as me. There is no know mechanism for the continuation of my individual consciousness without the brain. We break down into our constituent elements which then are free to be incorporated into other new forms.

Answer 3

It's fascinating isn't it.

I'm not a sci-fi nut, but I like the idea presented in Stargate SG1. If you haven't seen it, the concept is similar to Buddhism, in that life is all a learning curve, and we gradually ascend to higher planes of existence. The more we learn, and the more good we do, the more powerful beings we become.

I'm very much a realist, always subscribing to the scientific side of life.. I'm not religious - I suppose the best way to describe me would be agnostic. I am very sceptical about many things without absolute proof. However, I am absolutely beyond doubt that one night a few years ago, my mother (who is dead) came back to visit me. It was a very personal experience and perhaps wandering off topic a little, so I will not go into detail, but I know that it was her. I do not normally believe in such things. It made me think that we must live on in some form, at least for a short while after our death.

I'm not sure about reincarnation, but I do think that we become spirits, in a different plane of existence. It all comes down to what your religious beliefs are. Honestly though, nobody can tell us absolutely what does happen. So better try and get things right this time, you mightn't get a second shot at life!

What do you think?

Answer 4

I don't think anyone knows for sure (No one has ever come back to life in order to tell us what happens); the only reasonable answer could be: the same thing that happened before we we born would be the same thing after we die; That would mostly be OBLIVION!

Life is a cycle, sometime in order to understand its mysteries, let's say, what happens after death, you need to understand what happens before birth. The truth is, nothing is lost nor created, but constantly move from potential existence in nature to manifest existence (life) and back to potential existence.

Let's take an example: Before you were born, you already existed as potential in both your parents (in the reproductive cells) and for some divine reason, those very two cells got together, fused and you came to being. After you die, your body decomposes back into elements of nature and you go back to potential existence in nature. If some thousands of years later, two people get together and the right elements in their reproductive cells fuse, you come back to manifestation and so on. That's the cycle of life.

Ask yourself this (If you don't have children yet and you will one day have one child): Where is that child now? what's happening to that child as we speak? That child potentially exists in you and the person with whom you will have the child with.

Answer 5

What a way to believe. Some people believe humans just merely exist and then boom thats it! If thats all you got to believe you need help. There is a loving God who keeps that from happening, but you have to chose to accept Him. John 3:17 says God sent Jesus into the world, not to condemn the world, but through Him the world He would save. It is your choice to do it. It is like accepting a gift. The only thing stopping your eternal destiny is your willingness not to accept His free gift of salvation!

The End

Answer 6

I you believe what the Bible says, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. That is everyone.

There will be a judgment day when we are all judged before a righteous judge. God is fair. He delights in justice.

Luke 16 :19 is an example

Answer 7

I believe that I will go to Mag Mell the Celtic afterlife.

I'm a Celtic Pagan though.I believe all religions and the Gods they believe in are real so there are many different afterlife's.Where you go depends what you believe.

Answer 8

The soul dwells as the inmost body of light and superconscious, universal mind of a series of nested bodies, each more refined than the next: physical, pranic, astral, mental. In our conscious mind we think and feel ourselves to be a physical body with some intangible spirit within it. Yet, right now our real identity is the soul that is sensing through its multiple bodies physical, emotional and mental experience. Recognizing this as reality, we powerfully know that life doesn't end with the death of the biological body. The soul continues to occupy the astral body, a subtle, luminous duplicate of the physical body. This subtle body is made of higher-energy astral matter and dwells in a dimension called the astral plane. If the soul body itself is highly evolved, it will occupy the astral/mental bodies on a very refined plane of the astral known as the Devaloka, "the world of light-shining beings." At death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension.

The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night. The astral world is equally as solid and beautiful, as varied and comprehensive as the earth dimension-if not much more so. Spiritual growth, psychic development, guidance in matters of governance and commerce, artistic cultivation, inventions and discoveries of medicine, science and technology all continue by astral people who are "in-between" earthly lives. Many of the Veda hymns entreat the assistance of devas: advanced astral or mental people. Yet, also in the grey, lower regions of this vast, invisible dimension exist astral people whose present pursuits are base, selfish, even sadistic. Where the person goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind.

Because certain seed karmas can only be resolved in earth consciousness and because the soul's initial realizations of Absolute Reality are only achieved in a physical body, our soul joyously enters another biological body. At the right time, it is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body-which is a duplicate of the last physical form-is sluffed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation: "re-occupying the flesh."

During our thousands of earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns are experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. We come to earth as princesses and presidents, as paupers and pirates, as tribals and scientists, as murderers and healers, as atheists and, ultimately, God-Realized sages. We take bodies of every race and live the many religions, faiths and philosophies as the soul gains more knowledge and evolutionary experience.
Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development.

Answer 9

The Bible tells us that there is not only life after death, but eternal life so glorious that “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, came to the earth to give us this gift of eternal life. “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).

Jesus took on the punishment that each of us deserves and sacrificed His very life. Three days later, He proved Himself victorious over death by rising from the grave, in Spirit and in flesh. He remained on the earth for forty days and was witnessed by thousands before rising to His eternal home in heaven. Romans 4:25 says, “He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised from the dead to make us right with God.”

Answer 10

i agree 110% with wait2gojustin112 or w/e is thing is!
when you die if you are saved you will go to heaven and meet the one who died for you, or if you don't believe you will go to Hell. i hate how a lot of ppl say " you've only got one life to live" because EVERYONE has two lives to live.. the one on earth and then heaven or hell.
you choose.