What happens after death? My current opinion At this point in time‚ I think that when you die‚ the body decomposes and rots away along with the brain‚ thoughts‚ experiences ect… At the point of death‚ energy leaves your body which previously granted you consciousness and the ability to carry out the life processes. This is the soul‚ when the soul exits the body; it is judged by the ‘higher power’ and then either sent to heaven or sent back to Earth as a punishment. It takes on another body generally
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Lauren Cole ‘A disembodied existence after death is entirely possible’ Discuss. Plato takes a dualist view and therefore believes that a disembodied existence is entirely possible and the soul is distinct from the body. At our death‚ the soul is set free from the body where it has been ‘imprisoned’ and it is now able to achieve its ultimate goal and reach the world of the forms. The soul is the only immortal part of the body and survived the world of the forms before it came entrapped in the
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In Plato’s dialogue Phaedo‚ there are a series of arguments presented by Socrates as proofs for the existence of the soul after death. The final and most convincing argument works as a direct application of Socrates’ idea of the Forms. Socrates begins to examine the question of whether the soul exists after death by establishing the basis upon which his proof must function. Socrates takes his idea of Forms to be the most certain of all of his theories and so he contends that it ought to be the basis
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Compare and Contrast two beliefs of Life after Death? Resurrection and reincarnation both have the same basic belief‚ that there is life after death‚ but the concept of the two beliefs are very different in several ways. Reincarnation is a Dualist belief and is a rebirth into a new form of existence that may be totally different from the first form of existence. For example‚ a human could get reincarnated as an animal such as a cow. The cow is a totally different form than a human. On the other
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Life and death‚ and much more‚ life-after-death constitute issues that we may never completely comprehend with our limited human intellect. The question of the possibility of an afterlife is one to which most religions have had to provide answers. Judaism‚ as a religion‚ at some point in its history had to confront this question. The aim of this essay then is to point out how the Israelites‚ as a religious people‚ came to answer this question of the possibility of an afterlife. We would notice as
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Everyone dies. The causes of death and the symptoms leading up to it are well researched‚ but the universal phenomenon of what happens to humans after they die remains a mystery. While there are many theories and personal opinions on what may occur‚ no one has been able to find concrete evidence on whether there is in fact an afterlife. One would think that as technology is quickly advancing‚ people would at least have an idea of what occurs‚ but this age-old question continues to be a well-kept
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play Hamlet‚ the author William Shakespeare‚ portrays the character of Hamlet‚ who struggles throughout the play to understand the idea whether is it better to live or to die‚ which leaves the universal question unanswered: “What awaits humans after death?” Throughout the play‚ this question plagues Hamlet if he should take his life and if it is morally the right thing to do; in which he utters the phrase “To be or to not be: that is the question; / Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer.” In
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A near death experience‚ also referred as NDE‚ is a psychological event that may occur when a person is close to death‚ or in a situation of suffering serious physical or emotional problems. Most NDE’s are peaceful and loving‚ but some are disturbing. All NDE’s are unique in a way‚ but as a group they share common features. During a NDE‚ individuals may feel intense emotions‚ commonly peace‚ well-being‚ and loved. Others are marked by fear‚ horror‚ and loss. Another common feature is a rapid movement
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inherently evil or good? Human beings are naturally selfish and carnal beings‚ having these tendencies from birth without having to be taught. Basic and consistent human behavior‚ Barbara Tuchman’s “This is the End of the World: The Black Death‚” and Philip Gourevitch’s “After the Genocide” reflect how Thomas Hobbes’ theory of human behavior may‚ very likely be true. At a very young age‚ humans show signs of selfishness and greed. An infant or toddler naturally wants all the toys for their
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500 BCE. Both religions have a concept of life after death. There are some concepts about life after death that relate to one another in both Islam and Hinduism but are carried out in different ways. In Islam‚ the body of a dead person will be buried in a grave with white sheets wrapped around them. The reason why bodies are wrapped in white sheets instead of being placed in a tomb is because the process of crossing over to the other side after death will be much faster. In Hinduism‚ the bodies of
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