To ask what you really think happens when you die?

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I’d describe myself as agnostic. I’d like to think God exists, and heaven exists but logically I think it’s probably unlikely.

My grandads mum died this week, she was asleep really for her final days, and in the run up to her death she’s been quiet, and not really present, however, the second before she died, she opened her eyes, smiled (her face in all honestly wall almost glowing with joy) and shouted ‘Mama, Mama’ and then she died.

I’d love to think her mum came to get her and take her to heaven or an afterlife but the logics part tells me it was probably something neurological. Might ignore my logical side though because I like the other possibility better!

I really want to be convinced that there is an afterlife. I’m terrified of blackness?

Look at the accounts of NDEs I’ve linked to up thread. Their honesty and genuineness shines out,

I suspect there may be an afterlife of some kind but don't know for sure if this is the case or, what if so, what form it would take. We may not be meant to know.

What I do think is that from our human perspective, if there is one thing more terrifying than oblivion it is the idea eternal life. Personally I can't think of anything worse than sitting on a cloud with just a halo and a harp for company - like that for all eternity.

If there is something more, we are not meant to know about it because our human minds can't grasp it.

NDEs are neither here nor there, it's after death people want to know about.

I hope we go on to see our loved ones who have passed but neither I, or anyone else will know what, if anything happens till it's time. Believe in whatever gives you peace.

I really want to be convinced that there is an afterlife. I’m terrified of blackness?

I don't, I really don't. One life is enough, could you imagine what it must be like ending one life, only to find yourself starting again? Jesus Christ!!!

Moonmelodies it’s just the term they use, to all intents and purposes these people have died. It’s as good as you’ll get anyway. Some of the ones out there are impossible to dismiss. Have you ever watched any? Their honesty shines through. Personally I find them not only fascinating but very faith affirming, and even if they werent true (which for a lot of them I highly doubt)......if they give just a small glimmer of hope and comfort to a person struggling with loss than who are any of us to take that away from them. It’s harming no one and certainly doing more good than harm.

I'd like to believe there is an afterlife, but on balance there probably isn't.

@Moonmelodies I’m with you on that one.

I’ve had a NDE - was resuscitated, the whole 9 yards. All I can recall is pain and panic, followed by numb and quiet....then just lights out, as if I fell asleep. Then woke up in hospital a week later. No pearly gates or white light or anything like that

No one knows for certain what happens so I can never really understand all the posters on threads like this that are adamant there is nothing after death!

I think there is some sort of afterlife but, obviously, cannot be certain.

The idea that people choose to be born into poverty for 'growth' seems a bit patronising. Yeah, maybe your stsrving to death, but don't worry you have an old kind soul.

Does that also apply to people born with illness or disabilities, or persecuted minorities? Would someone really chose to be born as a baby with HIV who won't survive until their first year? And following that logic we shouldn't try to help the poor because they chose it, and they want to be poor for 'growth'.

I’d like to believe in heaven and hell, but none of us can know for sure. I was brought up to believe that at the end of your life you’ll see the angel of death at the end of your bed( apparently a very tall dark man) he will be the one to take your life. At your funeral when you are being lowered into the ground your soul will enter into your body again and you will hear the people there .

Once you are in the grave you will fall asleep and you will have a small window open up so you could see heaven and smell heaven( bad people will have hellish time in their graves). You will stay there till judgement day when the earth is collapsing and no longer be there. Every single dead person will wake up to be judged and chosen wether to go heaven or hell.

In heaven you will see who you want to see and can have anything you desire and make it what you want it to be.There are different types of heaven and different types of hell (highest level of hell for those people who committed the worst crimes), depending on your good deeds or bad deeds . As for what form we would take , we would be in human form but different,we can eat and drink all we like but we would not need to go to the toilet, and we could change how we look depending how we feel that day . Some people in hell might end up in heaven at some point , I’m guessing that maybe they served enough time and God took mercy on them, others will rot in hell.

My memory of choosing my family before birth wasn't that I was given a load of information about each choice.. just that I was asked who I wanted to be placed with out of a few options. It's not that I knew what my life would be when making the choice, I just knew who my mother would be...

What bullshit. There's no way I wouldn't. chosen my life and nobody would chose to be born disabled, poor and starving in a poor war torn country.

Can honestly say I wouldn't have chosen my life so if that's true why didn't someone slap me!!!!!

This will sounds bonkers but here goes: for a few days before my dear one died, he could see my aura, was completely at peace and very much looking forward to leaving this world and embracing the next, sure in the knowledge that he would be reunited with lost loved ones again. He lay there with a beautiful smile on his face, eyes closed and apparently speaking to many people and greeting them in turn. After he died, a friend of mine rang and said would I be ok to speak to his sister who was a Buddhist trained to help people pass over as she put it. She said she went to him in spirit to help him on his way and there were many others around him waiting to greet him and help him on his way. Whatever you believe, I found this to be of great comfort.

I would love to believe in the afterlife but in truth, I think it’s just a case of lights out. I’ve had some very strange experiences after people near to be have passed, but I’ve put them down to an over active mind and coincidence.

Nothing after death.

If that was the case our pets would not be PTS. We are all animals and I am sure the apes don't observe any religion or expect to be in another world. Even though we are descended from them.

Afterlife and religion is a con, but comforting to many let it be said, each to their own,

All rubbish. Do what you can whilst here.

Lovely to see people being so respectful of others opinions and experiences on here 🙄

I'd like to believe that there is an after life. Not a sitting in clouds playing harps kinda thing but maybe the idea that we're in suspended animation or just souls recognising each other. I've always struggled with it as I find the idea of someone simply ceasing to exist hard. However, I now know ghosts aren't real. Having lost my husband in December, I know he'd be back to prove a point by now. I do hope there isn't blackness and I get to see him again.

I have regular out of body experiences and can bring them on at will, whilst I fall asleep. Very different to dreams. It's like I can feel my consciousness rise from my body. It makes me believe there is something else.

You live and then you die, no pearly gates/nirvana all that nonsense. Your atoms go back into the earth as they have done forever.

I think animals have a different level of consciousness than us humans. They don’t expect an afterlife because they haven’t been given the brain to think much beyond their immediate needs. But each animal has a place. I always remember this lady I met once whilst walking my dog. She just said “they’re dogs gift aren’t they”........and I think certain animals were created for our enjoyment. I also believe they have a soul which lives on.

I read this book once my friend read it and told me to read it by Delores cannon "between life and death"
And one by Dannion Brinkley saved by the light this guy died for over 30 mins (doctors confirmed it)

I think you just go. But while you are remembered, then you are still 'here' until those who loved you die.

Nothing. You don't remember pre birth so you won't know you're dead.