Is there life after death???

Question

just wondering, if you have a story you would like to share please tell.

Answer 1

Depends on if your religious or not, some religions believe there is, some people who don't believe in it, say that life ends. So what ever you believe in.

Answer 2

It's a question i also have very often. I hope so ! It's a terrible thought to die and not to have a spiritual afterlife. Many religions believe in going to heaven, hell, or reincarnation. Many people have had near-death experiences and claim they have seen flash-backs of their entire lives and their deceased loved ones are on the "other side " to meet them. I was just reading last week that science is trying to disprove the heaven/hell idea and is coming up with other ways that the brain itself can cause us to see these out of body experieces even after the brain has flatlined for a certain period of time.
I guess the bottom line is no one knows for sure, and probably never will.

Answer 3

A couple of days after he died I heard my grandfather's voice. He gave me a message and told me to give it to my mother. The words didn't make any sense to either of us until, years later, we discovered the meaning from my great-uncle (his brother).

The meaning was so specific (and was something neither of us could have know about) that I have no other explanation other than the one I've given.

So yes, I believe in life after death.

Answer 4

Maybe... maybe not. No one has ever lived through the experience to tell the rest of us about it.

Numerous reports of "out of body" experiences but since they are 100% subjective it is impossible for anyone but the one who experienced it to know anything about it. For all we now it's just the brain doing strange stuff when near death.

A lot of people/groups/societies claim to know but, really, it is impossible to know.

Answer 5

this is like another common question: are we alone in the universe?

i just think that this universe is so complex that it would be foolish to believe we've got maybe 100 years here & thats the end. of course there's something after death.

just like i think that since the universe is so big...it be a real waste of space if we were the only bozos here. we might be the only ones in this GALAXY but not in the entire universe.

Answer 6

Of course there is life after death. That's why we're programmed to want to live forever, and we will. Depending on how we lived out lives on Earth, we'll eventually either go to Heaven or Hell.

Answer 7

No. Death, by definition, is the cessation of life.

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which we are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world.

Some people argue that there is something called a soul, which is independent of, and can survive the death of, the physical body. What could this 'soul' be?

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

Answer 8

Yes. The soul lives for eternity. Our bodies are nothing more than an outer shell for the soul to live in.
Jesus died & come back to life.

Answer 9

Yes. My mother miscarried and no one ever told me or ever brought it up. It was very painful for me. For a few years I dreamed of a girl who kept telling me she was my sister. I would argue because I only had my brother but finally the dream which just kept happening got to me and I finally asked my mother and she admitted that she had miscarried. My sister told me who she was because she wanted me to know.

Answer 10

Someone once said: "I would rather live my life like there is a God, die, and find out that there isn't, than to live like there isn't a God, die, and find out that there is."

"Humans" tend to want to "see" proof for everything. That could be why God isn't showing everything to us. We are forced to believe.

I refuse to believe that we just "stop being" one day. That would just defy life, wouldn't it?

Good fortune on your journey friend