Is there an afterlife?
453419
One way or another, you'll eventually find out.
12741
That question has many answears depending on your believes. You can go to heaven, you can reincarnate in something else, or become nothing after your life cycle ends. There is really no answear to a question like that, for no one knows the answear
117835
Some believe in heaven or hell, some it's reincarnation, some stick around on earth for various reasons.  My opinion is when you die you are gone.
301952
Yes,Of course! According to various religious beliefs, there is definitely a new life after death. The bodies, after death, will be disposed off, but the life in the body, that is the soul, will be born again in another form, either as an animal or a human being again!. there are various instances wherein,some children have spoken of their earlier life with details,as to what he/she was in the previous birth, the location, parents, aquiatances, etc. On physical verification by impartial bodies, these have been found fully factual, and correct.
599928
On two separate occasions, my heart and breathing stopped and I was essentially dead until resuscitated with CPR.\n\nI did not see any afterlife.
961357
well, isn't this the core question of the human race? Is there a point to it all? From a bigger perspective (like the billions of years old unimaginably big universe perspective) I'd say probably not as we're very finite beings and the time and space we take up in the universe at large doesn't really register as more than a blip, but on a personal level there are many things I aspire to like expanding my knowledge, sharing love and warmth, experiencing interesting sensations (think food, music, reading, sex, etc) and seeing as much of this vast and fascinating universe as I possibly can and I try my best to do good by others.\n\nJust because I do not believe in the human soul, the god(s) and an afterlife doesn't mean I don't intent to get the most out of the short timespan I've been given in this bizarre place. Although I must admit it is sometimes hard to resolve the human ego that screams 'I am the center of the universe' with the rational knowledge that in the grand scheme of things I do not really matter. But everybody should be allowed a crisis of faith from time to time, we're all human after all.
523755
Just scary to think WHERE our afterlife will be. Looking at all of my friends, I'm thinking we are going to be a tad on the "warm" side come judgement day. You guys wanna meet over by the second fire from the left? You know.....where they store the brimstone. :)
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As far as anyone can tell, there is no such thing as a soul.  When you die, you cease to exist.  End of story.\n\nADDENDUM:  To anyone who answers this question from the perspective that souls exist, you ought to justify your assertions with verifiable evidence or valid argument, not just make unsupported claims, otherwise your response is essentially worthless.  Oh, and quoting from the Bible or the Qur'an constitutes neither evidence nor argument...  :-)\n\nIt is a fundamental principle of rational thought that if you claim something exists, and you want people to believe you, then the onus is on you to provide argument or evidence to support your claim, not on other people to refute it.  The default position is non-belief, in other words.
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If heaven does exist, then pretty much anything of any substance here on earth would have a soul, as we are all comprised of atoms, which themselves are active, and alive. Only, if there is a heaven, the roaches are gigantic, smoke a ton of reefer, and play some really mellow jazz.
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I've thought seriously about this...and I believe the answer to this question is the same as "Is there a God?"\n\nNo living person can ever know the 100% true answer to this question, since the only way to know is if you are dead (therefore not living...)\nBut I would like to believe that a person knows if they are about to die (if they are terminally ill, for example).
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I have to disagree with a previous respondent who said, "What do you remember before you were born? Well that is exactly what it will be like after you die."  Has he been dead already?  How does he know?  I THINK -- although no one can know for sure -- that we will certainly know when we're dead.  When you ask about experiencing the world around us, you're automatically asking about the afterlife, with some interplay with religious beliefs -- there's no separating one from the other.  Because I believe there's an afterlife, I also believe that we will experience the world around us, but on another plane.  Certainly we'll be able to interact after death, but primarily and most directly with those who have already died as well.
61836
You can go to heaven if you die.  Yes I believe in ghosts.
26670
in a way yes and no. There is a Heaven where all saved people go, but you do not get reincarnated into something else in this world.
185037
Nope, everyone dies.\n\nIf you're talking about life after death, than I guess it depends on what you believe.
329791
No.  If there was, it wouldn't be death.\n\nThe question you meant to ask is 'do we really die'?
464668
No, but I know some great books you can read if you're interested. They are fantastic and each one gives you a better understanding of just what it is and how it differs for each individual according to their faiths and beliefs. Once I lost my daughter I really wanted to know more about all of that and I thought the best way to prove that there really is life after death was to read about people who had had these experiences. Very Fascinating!\n\nI'm talking about people who actually died and came back to life at hospitals and such. Not something brought on by witchcraft or the choking game.
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You can't prove anything like that.\n\nAnd since BILLIONS of people have died, and NONE has ever been proved to come back and tell about an afterlife ----- that's almost the same as proving that there's no afterlife.\n\nNo-one thinks there's an afterlife for flowers, so why should there be an afterlife for people?