What's the point of going to an afterlife if you lose all your memories?
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You talk to yourself. Do you.
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Your heart stops beating. Your synapses slow their firing until you are brain dead and no electrical current is flowing through the nervous system. Your body will generally expel any waste matter (air, urine, feces) being held. Sometime around this time, you will either discover that there is an afterlife of some sort, or you will blink into nothingness, with absolutely no consciousness to be aware of the fact that there is no afterlife. The body will begin the approach to rigor mortise. And bacteria will begin decomposing the body. Years and years later, only ash (and perhaps fossilized bones) will be left of your body. If there is an afterlife, you will never be able to tell anyone. If there isn't, you will never be able to tell anyone. Those who say they know the truth about the afterlife, either way, are not intellectually honest. Which is why this question will continue to evoke philosophical debate ad infinitum.
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Some people believe in "past lives"-- reincarnation.  They believe people have soul mates and that many people in our CURRENT life is someone from their past... we died, then came back in a different body but with the same basic soul.  We're supposed to "come back" to right our past wrongs or learn something that we are supposed to know before we can 'move on'... basically, the mistakes we make, we should learn from; other people around us are our teachers or students--these can also be our 'soul' mates, doesn't necessarily mean a lover.  (If you really feel your instinct, it tells you what to do--that's your guide... )
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Are  You  Real....the  Answer  is  YES.....After  you  died your  spirit  lives  on.....but  only  thing  some  called them  Ghost  and  some  Spirit......Ghost  is  the  ones  who  done  bad  things  to  people  and  can't   find   rest.....And  Spirit  is  the  good   ones.....who  find  themselves  peace.\nGood  Luck
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Honestly, you live on in the memory of the lives of people that were special to you and that you touched through your actions.  As an atheist/secular humanist I believe it is important that I leave the world a better place than I found it.  As such, I try to touch the lives of as many people as possible while I am living on this beautiful blue globe.
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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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Reincarnation cause people can be placed under hypnocis(sorry about my crappy Spelling.) and remember there past life
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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.
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You can go to heaven if you die.  Yes I believe in ghosts.
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No it isnt there is no way to bring a person back to life as soon as your body dies it starts decomposing things start to decay your body wouldnt last long enough and if it did they still wouldnt be able to use computer chips to bring u back.
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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?
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when we die, our brains die too.. so, we can no longer think or be aware of anything. if its true that we dont have spirits, then, when we die, we just stop existing. but if we have spirits, then, when our bodies die, the spirit will just move alone without the body.
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Who knows. My intention is to shop around...check out various afterlives, see if there are any good reincarnations available, that sort of thing.
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i believe that you are still yourself with out your human body.  your body either gets burned or buried in the ground.  Your soul on the other hand is either taking to Heaven or Hell.  If you go to heaven the Lord is going to give you a new heavnly body, if you go to hell, i don't know what satan will do to ya.  I hope i neaver find out.  anyway, this is just what i believe, you have to decide for youself.
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I believe that I will have no afterlife.\n\nOr rather, I believe this: I cannot imagine a god so cruel as to condemn me to an eternally unchanging afterlife. Sure, I can imagine enlightenment that could last a long, long time--it would be interesting to explore the universe and unlock its mysteries, or to reincarnate over and over as different beings, up to a point--but I cannot imagine any existence for eternity without it becoming horrible.\n\nAnd thus, since I cannot believe in a god so cruel, I believe that either there will be no afterlife at all, or there will be no afterlife for the being that I consider to be "me." In other words, if what I become after my death can somehow find fulfillment in an eternal afterlife, then it won't be "me" and therefore not worth worrying about.\n\nI'm young--around 40--but don't see any reason to want an afterlife. I certainly want to not-die in this life, though. I find this life just fine, and would like to experience a lot more of it. I just don't want eternity.
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Good question,one i often think of too.....also where do you go and what are you doing straight after death.?...surely life cannot just be snuffed out...their has to be something else..
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I suppose that depends on what you personally believe in.  I was taught how to send other people back to their past lives a long time ago.  People I have sent say that I am really good at it.  I have been sent before,  but I have too much trouble letting go of my current life to experience my past lives fully.  It is possible that all those I have sent merely imagined past lives.  Only the gods can truly know.