Introduction: Life after Death

Have you ever wondered what will happen to after when die? Or what happens to other people after they die?

I have..........This is not because I have a weird fascination in death or anything. I think this is because when I was younger if anyone in my family died (even my fish!) my parents used to tell my sisters and I that they had gone to heaven to be with God. Now as a twenty year old although I find it hard to believe that my fish went to heaven I often wonder what has happened to the relatives in my life who I was so close to when they died. I wonder whether for example they have gone to heaven and if they have what this place looks like and whether everyone else who dies will join them. I think the main reason why I wonder about such things is because I don't believe that at the moment of death they have ceased to be and they are nowhere looking down on us. This is because I think it makes the world seem so cold and with no purpose. I would rather believe that they have gone to heaven and on to a better place where they can look at what we are doing to make sure we are happy.

But why this topic for my blog? Well.....Although I often thought about what happened to the people who I loved and died the topic of life after death first began to really interest me after I spoke to a teacher about this topic when I was in school. The reason why I remember this teachers comments so many years later is because he told me more honestly and plainly than anyone ever has that there is no life after death and the only reason people believe there is, is because they are scared of death and it is a form of reassurance. His remarks reminded me of a statement made by Sigmund Freud that religion and the beliefs (i.e life after death) is born from man's need to make helplessness tolerable. I guess this is true for some people and I do not intend to say they are wrong. I completely understand that for some the thought of death being the end is simply incomprehensible, especially if they have recently lost a loved one and wish to find some form of condolence in this to help them get through a difficult time in their lives. However, even after all of these years thinking about this teacher's comment I fail to be convinced that there is no life after death and that people believe in it simply because they are scared of death. I therefore intend to use this blog to write about the evidence I find from the Internet researching near death experiences so that I can try to find proof of my belief that there is life after death and that there is something that lies beyond the tombstones when we die.