life after death is a gross contradiction. Death is the end of life.
I believe an energy can remain for a period of time. But not in the form of ghosts. I think ghosts are the result of peoples imaginations playing all kinds of tricks on them.
But generally I believe you die and thats it. Total nothingness. Sounds depressing to some but to me its very comforting because it means there's nothing to fear.
Nope. I think that when you die, that's just it. Your thoughts, soul, everything just go away. I imagine it's like before you were conceived by your parents. You didn't exist yet, there was just nothing. I think after you die it's like that, nothingness again, but this time you're leaving a physical body behind. But mentally it's the same non-existence. Some people think that's depressing but I don't. It just makes me live my life even harder and appreciate the time I do have because I know (well, I think) that when this life is over, that's it, and if there's anything I didn't do, that's my fault and I don't get a second chance. It intrigues me sometimes when I see people living their lives a certain way because they believe they have to in order to get into heaven, or wherever. That's a complete unknown. What if there is no heaven and they wasted their lives not doing everything they wanted to because they thought something was going to happen, and it didn't? I guess we all have to go our own ways. If I could choose, I would want reincarnation. But you would have no knowledge of your past lives, or that you had lived before. You get to live different lives but you're not even aware that you are. So your innermost soul keeps living on in different bodies but everything else around you is different, and you never know it. That seems peaceful.
Yes and I'm not a religious person. But I don't think its the heaven in religious texts, like angels and such.
I just don't like the fact of not being able to see your loved ones forever after death. I truly think we'll meet again in another life or through energy or who knows.