Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Is There Life After Death Takes Place?

By Jordan Schmidt


There have been many theories that have been advanced to explain the existence of humanity; where we came from as human beings and what our life purpose is. Still, many questions have gone unanswered. Is there life after death? This is perhaps the most challenging of them all. In an attempt to get an insight on what happens when we die, a group of scientists studied patients that has suffered heart attacks. These patients were dead in every sense of the word since their hearts stopped at least momentarily.

A good number of patients said that they had been aware of the events that were taking place during resuscitation. They could feel the pressure of the chest compressions and the instructions being issued by the team leaders during the event. Another group reported that they experienced a peaceful moment and saw a bright light move towards them. Others say that they experienced violence and discomfort.

One of the biggest challenges with this kind of research is that the accounts are largely subjective. It is possible that the belief of the patients may have influenced their experiences during the event. Those that reported the experiences of peace and the bright light may have held this belief from before and so is the case with those who experienced discomfort.

Many different religious beliefs related to dying and its aftermath exist. It is generally believed that there is another existencr after we die. The promise of an afterlife is perhaps the biggest determinant of membership to religion. There are many contrasts as well as similarities among all the religions that believe in the presence of life after death.

In many of the religions, is a belief in a higher power, God. The higher power is the giver, maintainer and terminator of all life on earth. All death is according to plan and once we die the soul is separated from the body. The soul moves on to the afterlife and the body decomposes. It is believed that all living things have a soul.

Christianity and Islam have significant similarities with regard to the afterlife. In both religions, there is a belief in both heaven and hell. All people who die are judged by God and rewarded accordingly. While there is an eternal life for everyone, one group is destined for enjoyment while the other is destined for eternal suffering. The desired eternal life is only for the righteous.

Reincarnation is a belief that when a person dies, their soul enters another body and they continue living. It is a belief that is characteristic of many Asian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. In the latter, there is no belief in the existence of a soul. Rather, new existence is said to be propagated by a stream of consciousness that moves from one flesh to another.

After many years of research, the events that surround death and its aftermath remain a mystery. It has not been possible to scientifically prove whether or not life exists after we die. Nobody ever comes back with evidence of what lies on the other side.




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