Do you think there is an afterlife?

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I find this so interesting.

I don’t know if I believe in it or not. I’d love it to be real.

Do you think that we have spirits inside us that are released and just float around when we pass on?

Interested in everyone’s thoughts.

I'm Catholic so I do believe in an afterlife. Life is hard so the reward is Heaven.

No

No, not at all. I think we die and decompose and go back into the world around us. It makes me feel peaceful and calm to know that one day all the matter and energy that is currently me will be part of other things. But as for souls, afterlife, etc- no, I don't believe any of that at all.

I’d like to, but no. I think it’s a Father Christmas Scenario but for adults

No. Once you're dead, you're dead.

That was one of the reasons I rebelled against my strict RC upbringing. I may as well believe in Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy.

I believe in the spirit world
100%

No. Think of the billions of years that went by before you were born. At the time you didn't know anything, you just didn't exist. I think after death will be the same - you don't know you are gone, theres just nothing . For a lot of people the idea of being reunited in heaven with family is a horrible thought, especially for those who were abused by family members etc. But of course the only people who will ever know the answer to this are the dead.

No. I think it's an idea that was invented - understandably - to make people feel better about death.

I don't know what I believe, but I suffer with anxiety, and even going on the road of thinking about this sends me into a spiral.

I just can't imagine that there is anything, because with the science available today I believe there would have been some evidence of it.

But at the same time, to imagine eternal nothingness sends me straight into a panic attack. Honestly, my heart is beating faster just thinking about it.

I have also had some experiences of 'presences' that have been hard to explain, which make me think perhaps there might be something more. It's not a case of I'm seeing what I want to be true, because honestly I'm as disbelieving about all that as they come. But there have just been one or two things that have happened to me that I absolutely cannot explain, and while it could have been luck or a coincidence, it's difficult to truly accept it as such.

I'm not sure I'd like to think there is and that one day I'll get chance to hold and kiss and cuddle my 4 Babies

No, I don't. I think we live and then we die, like all other animals on the planet.

It pains me to say this as OH died this year; but it is good to think of him not suffering any more.

loubieloo4 - I am sorry if that view pains you and so sorry for your current circumstances. I hope that your DH and all your family are getting the care you all need.

As to God - there are so many religions that all believe in a deity, but they all finish up corrupted and deviating from their essence, which seems to be about kindness. I just try and live by the kindness and leave the existence of a deity as an unknown.

No. We live on through the ripples we leave behind in the lives of others. I hope I am leaving good ones.

@lljkk

oh ffs, as if one life wasn't exhausting enough!

Very good book (young adult fiction) which touches on the topic of tiresome immortality.

It brought a bloom to her pale cheeks and made sharp shelves of her cheekbones. ha! This quote (from the book sale page) has given me enough to decide I wouldn't buy it!

As for the afterlife discussion, I'm remaining open minded, as a sort of insurance policy 😊

No.