Neuronal activity cessation, your ears will lose their connections It's aįact: your eyes will not transmit images any more because of Your senses will stop working after you die. So let's determine whether you willįeel anything after death, and whether you will Usually mean that, after the body disappears, we still feel and When we say that there is something after death (or not), we This write-up is a cut and paste of some things I wrote in Warning: You will die someday, that I feel should get their own write-up. I figure different strokes for different folks Now, for a bit of the flipside, the Islamic Paradise and the Norse Valhalla are much more "pleasure-bound" type afterlives, with all the carnal pleasures of this world times thirty-gabillion. Now, in Heaven, no man is supposed to need things like tobacco or women (or big hunky studs if you're a hetero fem/ homosexual), because we're there, with God, and everything's cool. So by its nature alone, Hell is created to house the wicked, perverted masses. But the problem I see with Heaven, by nature, is its polarity. The third and most boring possibility, is, of course, Heaven.
So, that in the end, in our "final life", we actually transcend this plane of existence and extinguish our mortal flame willingly (no, not suicide), that is to say that when we finally understand what this cosmos is all about, who needs to live in it, eh? So we croak, yadda yadda yadda, and the next step is theoretically end up in Nirvana, where we exsist in a state of non-being ( Zen, Mu, whatever you'd like to call it), where we're beyond all needs or concerns, and by nature, illumed.
So, we go through life over and over and over, each time getting just a bit closer to the ultimate understanding of the cosmos as it stands, and in the process move further and further away from the material wants and pits of depravity that seems to cover this island earth (pardon the movie reference). It makes a bit more sense though, considering I've met a few people I often-times thought of as " old souls". The next possibility I'd like to entertain is reincarnation, which in its nature is a direct contradiction of the previous concept I presented. It could just mean that when we die, the "energy" that was "us" (i.e., our ego, soul, or whatever), is mearly diverted to the creation of a new soul. Because if all matter, and hence energy, in this universe is constant, then that doesn't really ensure our exsistance, from a physics standpoint. As blasphemous as it sounds, I think there could seriously be a possibility that after we die, that's it. But I seriously think this thought deserves a bit of entertainment. Yes, now I know that saying something like that is a bit accusational, not to mention selfish in itself, so sue me. So, with these things in mind, I sometimes wonder, Do you think mankind sometimes assures each other of an afterlife out of selfish pride? That somehow, we as a race feel we deserve to ensue after our mortal flame is put out?. Originally, it is thought mankind created deities to explain two major curiosities of life: One, natural phenomena of nature (i.e., the sun, thunder, etc), which our primitive race had yet to grasp. But, I don't necessarilly believe that because there is a cosmic force in the universe, we as mortals are ensured an afterlife. Now personally, I'll just say right now that I believe in some cosmic force that makes things happen for better or worse, the closest things I've been able to find is the dao (mostly because it can't be explained), so in that respect maybe you could call me agnostic. Now, in discussing these virtues of life and death, one must inevitably come to contemplate the ultimate reality of a god unit, whatever you wanna call him ( Jehovah, Allah, Brahman, whatever). Realistically, there's only one way to find out. Then again, there's always the possibility that we die, and that's all folks.
There is always that distinct possibility of life after death, the concept that our souls and core ego should persevere in some form after the expiration of our physical shell.