Is it true that life also there after death? Can any one give answer logically without telling stories?

Answer 1

The only life after death is in others' memories.

When you die, you're just dead.

Answer 2

Is There LIFE After Death?
In this series:
Is There Life After Death?
Do You Have an Immortal Spirit?

Related topics:
What Has Happened to Hellfire?
The Hereafter—Where Will It Be?
Have You Lived Before?
When Someone You Love Dies
"IF AN able-bodied man dies can he live again?" asked the patriarch Job some 3,500 years ago. (Job 14:14) This question has perplexed mankind for millenniums. Throughout the ages, people in every society have pondered this subject and have come up with various theories.

Many nominal Christians believe in heaven and hell. Hindus, on the other hand, believe in reincarnation. Commenting on the Muslim view, Emir Muawiyah, an assistant at an Islamic religious center, says: "We believe there will be a day of judgment after death, when you go before God, Allah, which will be just like walking into court." According to Islamic belief, Allah will then assess each person's life course and consign him either to paradise or to hellfire.

In Sri Lanka, both Buddhists and Catholics leave their doors and windows wide open when a death occurs in their households. An oil lamp is lit, and the casket is placed with the feet of the deceased facing the front door. These measures, they believe, facilitate the exit of the spirit of the deceased.

According to Ronald M. Berndt of the University of Western Australia, Australian Aborigines believe that "human beings are spiritually indestructible." Certain African tribes believe that after death ordinary people become ghosts, whereas prominent individuals become ancestor spirits who will be honored and petitioned as invisible leaders of the community.

In some lands, beliefs regarding the condition of the dead are a blend of local tradition and nominal Christianity. Among many Catholics and Protestants in West Africa, for instance, it is customary to cover mirrors when someone dies so that no one might look and see the dead person's spirit.

Diverse, indeed, are the answers people give to the question, 'What happens to us when we die?' Yet, one basic idea is: Something inside a person is immortal and survives death. Some people believe that "something" to be a spirit. For example, in parts of Africa and Asia and throughout the Pacific regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, many believe that a spirit—not a soul—is immortal. In fact, certain languages do not even have the word "soul."

Is there a spirit in a living person? Does that spirit really leave the body at death? If so, what happens to it? And what hope is there for the dead? These questions should not be ignored. Whatever your cultural or religious background, death is a fact that has to be faced. The issues thus involve you in a profoundly personal way. We encourage you to look into the matter.


Appeared in The Watchtower July 15, 2001

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Answer 3

Define life.

If it is this thing you are experiencing now, here on earth, in this form...then no there is no life after death.

Death, by definition is the cessation of this life.

If you mean something else, it is truly impossible for anyone to answer that definitively, because no one has been truly dead and come back to life.

I've had a near death experience, but that is what it was, NEAR death, not death.

Answer 4

*** it-1 p. 597 Death ***

Condition of Human Dead. The dead are shown to be “conscious of nothing at all” and the death state to be one of complete inactivity. (Ec 9:5, 10; Ps 146:4) Those dying are described as going into “the dust of death” (Ps 22:15), becoming “impotent in death.” (Pr 2:18; Isa 26:14) In death there is no mention of God or any praising of him. (Ps 6:5; Isa 38:18, 19) In both the Hebrew and the Greek Scriptures, death is likened to sleep, a fitting comparison not only because of the unconscious condition of the dead but also because of the hope of an awakening through the resurrection. (Ps 13:3; Joh 11:11-14) The resurrected Jesus is spoken of as “the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death.”—1Co 15:20, 21; see HADES; SHEOL.

Whereas the ancient Egyptians and other peoples of pagan nations, and particularly the Grecian philosophers, were strong in their belief in the deathlessness of the human soul, both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Greek Scriptures speak of the soul (Heb., ne´phesh; Gr., psy?khe´) as dying (Jg 16:30; Eze 18:4, 20; Re 16:3), needing deliverance from death (Jos 2:13; Ps 33:19; 56:13; 116:8; Jas 5:20), or as in the Messianic prophecy concerning Jesus Christ, being “poured out . . . to the very death” (Isa 53:12; compare Mt 26:38). The prophet Ezekiel condemns those who connived “to put to death the souls that ought not to die” and “to preserve alive the souls that ought not to live.”—Eze 13:19; see SOUL.

Thus, The Interpreter’s Bible (Vol. II, p. 1015), commenting on 1 Samuel 25:29, observes that “the idea of man as consisting of body and soul which are separated at death is not Hebrew but Greek.” (Edited by G. Buttrick, 1953) Similarly, Edmond Jacob, Professor of Old Testament at the University of Strasbourg, points out that, since in the Hebrew Scriptures one’s life is directly related with the soul (Heb., ne´phesh), “it is natural that death should sometimes be represented as the disappearance of this nephesh (Gen. 35:18; I Kings 17:21; Jer. 15:9; Jonah 4:3). The ‘departure’ of the nephesh must be viewed as a figure of speech, for it does not continue to exist independently of the body, but dies with it (Num. 31:19; Judg. 16:30; Ezek. 13:19). No biblical text authorizes the statement that the ‘soul’ is separated from the body at the moment of death.”—The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, edited by G. Buttrick, 1962, Vol. 1, p. 802.

Answer 5

Yes it is true.

I have read about a news around 15 years ago, a young girl was born and as she learnt to walk and speak, she used to talk about her baby. People initially ignored her, but after years, she insisted on seeing her baby. So they took her to a psychiatric. Finally she led them to a house and she knew exactly where to go and where was the living room and where was the bed room. She finally saw her "baby", a few years older than her. Finally it transpired that she was murdered by her husband in her previous birth and she was reborn as a baby. When she grew up she identified her murdered in her previous birth. There was a lot of press coverage of this issue and the reason people believed it was because this little girl gave out all the details about a family that she never knew (the family into which she was married in her previous birth).

Even lawyers agreed that there could be life after death but that they were incapable of using it as an evidence in court because the law does not recognise life after death.

Answer 6

Why no "Stories"?

Personal interaction is the only the real evidence you will receive.

It is career suicide for any respectable scientist to work on this subject.

It's that the sad part? That any subject is taboo?

This subject is subjugated to the "weirdo" category.

I would think that ANY subject the human mind dwells on is ripe for investigation,despite what uptight intellectuals feel is legitimate.

I won’t give you a story- just to say that personal experience deems a better investigation is required- that it SEEMS there is a possibility it exists.

Answer 7

Our bodies have an electrical current. This energy just doesn't stop existing. Energy transforms into another form of energy.

http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159249&lid=1&seq=21

Would it be appropriate to call it our essence, our soul? I don't know, but when I think of it this way...could there be a possibility that our consciousness is part of the electrical current that runs through our bodies?
If it is, then the existence of an after-life is plausible.

Answer 8

How can anyone ever do such a thing? The Bible is the only authoritative source on this topic.

Answer 9

I'LL LET U KNOW WHEN I GET...LIFE IS SHORT, SO ENJOY IT NOW...

Answer 10

No