Is there life after death?

Many people think that when we die that's it wereIt's all very mind blowing and hard to get your head
gone forever! Well this is certainly the case if youround. Psychic mediums swear blind there is life after
believe that us humans are only beings with a bodydeath as some claim they can see dead people and
which only lives with the supply of oxygen. In whichothers claim they can feel them or hear voices. People
case death occurs when the heart stops beating andall over the world go to spiritualist churches in the hope
we stop breathing in oxygen which stops our brainsthat they may get a message from the relatives'
from functioning. Sounds quite straight forward. But uswhich have passed over as it were. I myself have
humans are very complex beings and we only know abeen to a few and received messages from certain
small amount of what our brain actually does, there isrelatives and quite often I can't explain how this
so much we don't understand.woman or man standing up in front of a podium can
Now many of us believe we have a soul or a spirittell me all about my grandmother who they certainly
that without any physical substance. And this spirit orhave never met.
soul is supposed to live on after our bodies have died.Trying to understand this type of phenomena is almost
So where does this soul live? Some people think theimpossible. Scientists are doing many experiments'
brain, others think the heart or other organs. There arewhich in time might give us the answer. There are now
stories of people who have had heart transplants andmany ghost hunting shows on the TV like Most
then take on the characteristics of the person whoHaunted which are trying to prove the existence of life
died and who's heart they had. Now this person hadafter death. But as yet I haven't seen any real proof,
died and had offered their heart for transplant so howbut do we really need to see actual physical proof?
did the characteristics of that person get transferredI definitely belief there is something to it but I can't quite
to the transplant patient, the only answer I can think ofput my finger on it. I am open to things and am quite
is via a soul or spirit of some like. Tricky to image buthappy in believing things that scientists have yet to
how do you explain this strange phenomenon?prove. I have never seen an alien for example but I
So if the soul or spirit does live within the bodybelieve we would be naive to think we are the only
somewhere and then is released when we die why isplanet in the universe with life on it. I also believe that
it there in the first place? Maybe it needs a body tothere are many things we don't know about the
evolve and develop and only leaves when the bodyhuman psyche and certainly don't need scientific proof
dies.to believe things. For example you can feel or sense
Another theory is that the spirit or soul is infact thean atmosphere even if you can't see it. You can walk
energy within each of us. If this is the case then thereinto a room where two people have been arguing,
is no such thing as the death of a soul as it isthey may have made up and look fine, but you could
scientifically proven that you cannot kill energy!cut the atmosphere with a knife. Now I can't explain
Many people believe that energy which is found inthat but I know it's real and not my imagination.
every life form on earth is infact God like. Or in otherSo in answer to the initial question of is there life after
words life force, there is no higher god like spirit ordeath. I don't know. All I know is that there are ways
being, us and everyone and every living thing around issome people can get information from the dead and
this god like life force and we have evolved due to ourthis is through spiritual experience such as psychic
intelligence apparently.ability which I certainly believe in.