what is there after death?
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Since this is in the science section... I'm going to say decomposition.\nAs for your soul, to hell unless you repent your sins and accept Jesus into your life.
273087
Life is Eternal. Once you die, you move on to a new life :)You can rejoin your loved ones that have passed on before you ;)
524098
I'm not going to give you the comforting fiction here. I'll just tell you the truth. Nothing happens to people after death. The last thing that happens to a person is the experience of the body failing and then ceasing to function. All the body systems, including brain processing, stop functioning. The individual loses consciousness for the last time. That final experience is the end. The person's lifeless body is then removed, etc. But THE PERSON no longer exists.
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No expert, but I can say unequivocally, we all have been "there" before life. Same place as after death, only none of us can remember because memory is a human condition. In the before and after, time doesn't exist, therfore memories cannot as they are based on experience and time...both of which are "Earthly" conventions. Consciousness, as an illusion and condition of human and perhaps other life forms' existence, leads us to many erroneous beliefs and misconcpetions about life after death. Life is now, death is later, so there is no "life" after death, else there is only life. But there is a condition and that condition is similar, if not the same, as pref-life. But I am no expert...
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We'll still exist.  We just won't be in any fit state to notice.  I know that when I die the rest of the world, along with my corpse, will continue to exist and function.  But my consciousness will no longer exist, because there will be no blood or oxygen getting to my brain to allow it to do so.
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i believe there is something after death\n\nbc then where does your mind go when you die?\n\ni beloive in spirits and heaven... bc there ARE such things are ghosts... \n\nthere are ghosts and obviously they come from dead people...\n\nso you either become a spirit or a ghost or go to heaven... which i guess is .. yeah i really dont know\n\ni guess you dont know for sure until you die and then... afterlife?\n\nyou just have to be happy and believe\n\nits scarey to think that your mind ... wont be like... around after you die its really scarey... like youll never be able to think...\n\nbut whatever.. enjoy life
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There is only spiritual life after physical death for those who believe in Jesus Christ, and love and seek and work for His kingdom. The sheep, as the Bible calls them, will go to Heaven for all of eternity after physical death. The goats, as the Bible calls them, will go to the lake of fire, and burn in Hell for all of eternity. This is called the second death.
429112
This depends entirely on your system of belief.  We all wish we knew what happened when we die.  It is hard to believe that we will just be no more.  Mostly this is because that is the worst possible thing that could happen, to simply not exist.  Many people fantasize about elaborate afterlives because they are scared of this, or have been brought up to believe that.  It all depends on what your spirit now tells you.  The only way to find out is to die.  That is something that we all want to put off as long as possible, just in case.
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there is 3 destinies of a soul: reborn, rest with ancestors or go to Gods/Goddesses.\nmy definition of an afterlife is Summerland.
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we will move on to another place such as another dimensions where our souls go with other spirits.\n\nwe will still have a soul and as lng as we are concious we will know we are living an "immortal life" after death\n\neven though the fate of the universe is uncertain(it will forever expand, stop expanding, or contract), we know our existence is forever like the supreme being, unless we decide to end our existence ourselves
798631
No, there is no life after death, so live your life during life...
407241
Life before and after death, my view:\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7dNzZV06cpnGmuKQRUwj0WV6Ig--?cq=1&p=1
139304
You can't experience life after death and be able to talk about on Yahoo Answers, because you wouldn't be able to. However, people DO have near-death experiences (NDEs). The most famous ones were the ones that happened to a man named Dannion Brinkley. He's been interviewed on the late-night talk radio program "Coast to Coast AM" several times.
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If indeed there is a heaven of sorts.....some kind of afterlife.....I could only imagine all living beings would eventually end up there....from the beginning of life.\nG*d is this theory would not be an entity like an old man sitting in heaven making decisions but more of a spiritual force.\nThe writing of the bible or invention of any of the worlds religions would only effect this hypothetical afterlife in that they may push a persons consciousness in one direction or anothers, if indeed this consciousness survived death. It is possible though that only the life force itself continues and the consciousness itself ceases to exist at the time of death.
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there is a lot of researches going on about this topic "life after death".people have different beliefs but one can know what really happens only if one dies!its a mystery again and no one can tell exactly what happens.biologically,death happens when the body functions stops due to any reason for that matter and then there is no life in the person who is dead.just gone forever.it need not be necessary that he/she has to go somewhere (hell or heaven) after dead.people create myths like these:if u do good deed during the course of your life,u will reach the heaven(the place of God) and would be treated well,and if u do evil things , u will reach the hell where the devil would torture u etc.....all these myths are created only to make people do good things and be good.but i think there is no such thing as life after death.i believe in science so lets see what science has to say about this in the coming future...........
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend, as well as the others who have died. That's rough.\n\n(We had an incident here a month ago where an 8th grade girl was killed crossing the street at night walking home from a dance. Some of the kids witnessed it, and the community was shaken by the whole thing. It was just so unexpected, and seemingly unfair.)\n\nAs you can see from the earlier answers here, people disagree tremendously on whether an afterlife exists, and what it might be like if it does.\n\nDeath is a hard reality that we all must come to grips with eventually. The fact is simply that, like it or not, we all have to die, and we don't quite know (in any sort of way that can be "proven") what waits for us on the other side until after the fact. \n\nOh, we can firmly believe certain things about life after death, but it's still a matter of faith for everyone concerned.\n\nYour belief about an afterlife really is going to hinge on what you choose to believe about this world, who God is (if you decide he exists), what sort of relationship you could have with him, and how that relationship could come into being. \n\n[Based on my life experience and what I see to make the most sense, I do believe in an afterlife, God, and human souls who will be close to each other after death. Heaven's not a trophy or an amusement park reward like it is often portrayed ("Believe the right thing, and win the big prize!"), it's being close to all the people who have learned how to truly love others and God ahead of themselves... a place where you can be completely open because you know you are safe and accepted.] \n\nI wish I could give you a clear answer. What I can give you instead is a bit of direction: If you're worried about death and whether your loved ones will still be around for you afterwards, I would start with the search for God. The answer to that riddle for you will greatly determine what you believe about death.\n\nDon't be scared to search and explore, and enjoy life as you go in the meanwhile. Death is a hard thing to deal with, true; but when we accept it as simply a reality, we can live life in the moment without worrying about it.
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I don't know for sure.  (obviously)   :)\nBut, I'd guess that the body is no longer of any use. \n\nThe spirit returns to the source that it came from.   A Higher Power or energy source or whatever you would choose to call the creator of all things.   \n\nI don't see any reason to assume that any of us, can really know for sure what happens.....but that's my current opinion.