Is there life after death?

[Taz70]

I've been feeling really morbid lately, and wondering if there is something out there. Has anybody had a near death experience or seen a ghost? What do you all reckon - what happens when we die?

[ELVIS68]

I believe nothing happens to us after we`ve died,
It`s a scary thought when you actually think about it and that life will carry on forever and you will never set foot on this earth again.
Thats why we should make the most of it while we`re here

[Captain Swab]

I believe we go to a mystical land of adventure when we die, so don't worry about it too much, it's going to be great.

[saxy_jag]

I believe that our bodies break down, our atoms become part of earth, and so we carry on in another part of the cosmos - this is how we live on.

I also think we live on in our descendants, through our genes. Since those genes determine our physical make-up, then surely they can influence how we think? Those voices we hear that we think are those of our dead relatives? I think they're really our own inner voices, which are the same as those of our ancestors.

I do also believe that when some people die, they had such a huge presence in life that their aura stays after they've gone. I don't mean all that spectral glowing thing, but in the same way you go into an empty room and you know someone's been in their because you can smell their perfume or cigarette smoke etc.

[imgoingunder]

I believe when you are dead you are dead.
I don't believe there is anything after that...
But I have just lately been woried about dying.. I am not
scared of death and dying.. Its the how am I going to die...

[lynneylou]

As a born-again christian, I believe what the bible says. The reason jesus died for each and everyone of us was so we never have to die but have eternal life. Very exciting!!!

[Octavius]

As a Christian I actually prefer the pagan belief of afterlife. I think of death as a transition from this life to the next, and perhaps the transition period is where we accept our fate in death and choose whether we wish to join our ancestors at the great banquet in the corpse hall, before proceeding with our own destiny to the Elysian Fields in the afterlife - based on our actions in this one. Or if that is the end of our mortal soul, and nothing else happens (a kind of hell or Nifflheim). Most beliefs in the after life are about our ancestors judgements on our actions in this life, whether that be dieing as a great warrior hero, or just being a good all round nice egg.

What happens after we die is therefore really up to you.

[jake-the-peg]

For any part of "you" to survive death that part would also have to be able to survive any amount of brain injury or mental illness in life.

After all your "soul" would have to first survive life in order to survive death wouldn't it?

People who have survived damage can have personality changes so great that the people who knew them no longer believe them to be the "same" person

Phineas Gage is probably the most famous of these when in 1848 he survived an explosion that sent a rod through his head?

What happened to his soul? His personality was utterly changed where did this new Gage come from?

If the fundamental character of Phineas Gage was unable to survive a brain injury how could it survive death?

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/ web2/adymkowski.html

[Taz70]

I'd like to believe that there is an afterlife. I can't bear the thought of never seeing my children, family and friends again. But, I suppose, if life does not go on then I wouldn't know about them anyway.

I think it's about time I started to read the bible, never having read it fully before. Perhaps some explanations will be offered.

For all those christians out there, what do you think we have to do to go to heaven and not hell? Obey the ten commandments? Because I don't think anybody has stuck by all ten surely. I mean, "thou shalt not kill," what about spiders and flies etc. or does it only cover humans?

It all goes a bit deep I guess and people will believe what they want to believe. Me, personally, I hope that life goes on so that I will see everybody again some day.