What Happens After Death?
“In Australia, as in Europe and North America, [after World War 1] reminders of death were put to one side and muted. Death began to move out of the centre of life and out of the family home into special, contained, places created by the churches, the funeral industry and the medical profession. The funeral industry reflected the domestic nature of earlier funerals in designating their premises as ‘funeral homes’ or ‘funeral parlours’…Death became increasingly taboo.
When we think of our mortality, the most difficult part is often not thinking of death itself, but of what happens after death. We are deluged with opinions on the subject. Some say we will be immediately plunged into heaven or hell. Some say we will be reincarnated. Others say death is the end of all existence. Even Christians – who agree that God will ultimately judge each person, sending the good to heaven and the bad to hell – may disagree over when that judgment will occur. There are two basic views on what happens to a person when he or see dies. The first view is a kind of sleep or unconsciousness – one that may last thousands of years, ending on Judgment Day. Daniel 12:12 says, “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.” Other scholars believe that a person goes immediately to heaven or hell. In Luke 23:43, Jesus tells the repentant thief on the cross: “I tell you the truth, today you will be wi
Everybody will die, that is one thing that we are absolutely certain of. What exactly is death, and what happens in the time after death? From a biological point of view, death is a process, not an event. This is because the different tissues and organs in a living body dies at different rates. We can divide death into somatic death and cellular death. Somatic death is when the individual is not longer a unit of society, because he is irreversibly unconscious, and unaware of himself and the world. Cellular death is when the cells quits respiration and metabolism. When all cells are dead, the body is dead. But all cells do not die simultaneously, except perhaps in a nuclear explosion. Even in a victim of a car bomb, where the body becomes fragmented, individual cells will continue to live for a few minutes or longer. Different celltypes can live for different times after cardiac arrest. Nervous cells in the brain are particulary vulnerable to oxygen deprivation and will die within 3-7 m
” Answer: Within the Christian faith, there is a significant amount of confusion in regards to what happens after death. Some hold that after death, everyone sleeps until the final judgment, after which everyone will be sent to Heaven or Hell. Others believe that immediately after the moment of death, people are instantly judged and send to their eternal destinations. Still others claim that when people die, their souls/spirits are sent to a temporary Heaven or Hell, to await the final resurrection, the final judgment, and then the finality of their eternal destination. So, what exactly does the Bible say happens after death? First, for the believer in Jesus Christ, the Bible tells us that after death, believers souls/spirits are taken to Heaven, because their sins were forgiven from having received Christ as Savior (John 3:16,18,36). For believers, after death is to be away from the body and at home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:23). However, passages such as 1 Cor
Unity believes that our souls are eternal and ongoing, and at death, they leave behind the physical body like an old suit of clothes. Our spiritual journey includes taking human form for a time, but the journey continues even after our life on Earth has ended. Unity often refers to funerals or memorial services as Celebrations of Life.
