Afterlife

Does one necessarily imply the other?, does it work both ways or only one way?

no, no, no and it works both ways, depending on how you define god and afterlife, it may only work one way

The catholic faith is:

When we die, our soul is directly judged. This judgement will result in:

1. Our soul goes to heaven, we meet our Loving God, our Creator and stay there permanently.

2. Our soul goes to hell, where we’re separated permanently from our God, cannot be changed anymore. This is very sad.

3. Our soul goes to the waiting room (purgatory), where our soul needs to confess the sins during eartly life. Once the sins are confessed, our soul goes to heaven.

When Jesus comes for the second time on judgment day (dooms day), His judgement just confirms the above judgement – and our body joins our soul again.

Up to now, the persons who have both body and soul in heaven are Jesus and Mary – all the rest of the saints in heaven , their body are still on earth.

God loves us all!

Or is there a scientific explanation for them eg hallucinations because of the brain shutting down? Are there NDEs that science cannot explain?

There is research that already shows its electrical and chemical activity in the brain causing the hallucinations.

Thank you

If you die with mortal sin (sin on purpose) on your soul or you lead a bad life you go to hell.

If you lead a good life you go to Purgatory which means you ARE going to Heaven

If you lead a very good life you go directly to Heaven

Afterlife can include any version or religion for that matter such as nirvana heaven hell an underworld for all spirits whatever as long as you have a spirit, and nothingness is basically you live and die then idk disintigrate in your coffin or whatever, include reasons for your choice.

Both scare me. Non-existence is scary as hell, but so is eternal existence. I used to sit in church and contemplate both, and I could never figure out which one was scarier. I’d always try to wrap my head around existing forever. There would always be another day, and another, and another, and there would never be a last day, a last moment, and that scrambles my brain in a way I can’t describe. But then… not existing at all, just… ceasing to be… that also frightens me beyond words.

Afterlife can include any version or religion for that matter such as nirvana heaven hell an underworld for all spirits whatever as long as you have a spirit, and nothingness is basically you live and die then idk disintigrate in your coffin or whatever, include reasons for your choice.

Both scare me. Non-existence is scary as hell, but so is eternal existence. I used to sit in church and contemplate both, and I could never figure out which one was scarier. I’d always try to wrap my head around existing forever. There would always be another day, and another, and another, and there would never be a last day, a last moment, and that scrambles my brain in a way I can’t describe. But then… not existing at all, just… ceasing to be… that also frightens me beyond words.

Are there any myths, stories, or beliefs about guides in the afterlife? Such as, beings – spirits, people, etc – that meet people/souls after they die to help usher them into the afterlife?
I know about the boatman and the River Styx…I’m thinking a little more personalized for the individual deathee.

in japanese mythology there are shinigami and each culture has its equivalent of Charon/shinigami just search death god on wikipedia

Does this happen around puberty or can it happen sooner?
i know little kids ask about where dead people go adn they ask aobut heaven but only cause they are conditioned to..i want to know when people become more aware about these things(death etc) on their own

About the first time they’ve had any brush with death. For me it was when my baby sister died when I was 5.

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Is the idea of your personal consciousness being lost in oblivion so enormously disturbing, that you’d rather be offered a chance to live again either in Heaven or in Hell?

Or you do feel just the opposite way?

I would imagine some R&Sers reject both these alternatives, preferring to believe in some sort of reincarnation. Are you one of them, or not so much?

Neither is comforting, but that’s to be expected- the organisms main concern is to survive so death isn’t supposed to be a comfortable idea or anything "welcome". However, I do believe that there is no afterlife in the sense that we exist as we do now, with perceptions.

I believe that as we die, our brains recognizes its end and releases chemicals that dissolve our ego into the universe, making the idea of death unrecognizable because we don’t perceive ourselves as something that could end or begin, and this state is timeless, meaning our death won’t even be perceivable to our own minds, and fear and discomfort and pain dissolve with the self.

That’s extremely comforting.

Believe in afterlife is optional. Please give a reason why dying/afterlife scares you.

It not so much that I am afraid of death. I am more afraid of the act of dying. Say if I died in my sleep, it would be find; but if I was shot and left bleeding that would scare me. The thought of knowing before you die that you are going to die, will make anyone afraid of. Like all humans, many people fear the unknown and changes. Their are a lot of speculations on the afterlife, but not that many certain answers. For those that are rooted in their religion and know that they have abide all the rules/commandment would fear it less. So to be clear to the answer to you question, I fear the process of death.