Life After Death

Over the years, human beings have wondered about what happens when they die. Thinking about Death is something that probably everyone has done at some time of their life.

The will of trying to understand how lives end should be understood, and considered perfectly normal by everyone else.

The Many Visions.

There are many ways which people can see Death through. Philosophers would talk about the soul and the World of Ideas, and religious ones would talk about Heaven, Hell, reincarnation and dozens of other concepts. For biologists and scientists, Death is just a natural phenomenon.

Science. “The individual died 23 hours ago.”

Seen through a scientific perspective, Death is nothing but the process which is characterized by the end of a living organism’s life. Life beings die because they must be replaced by the new ones, and if this didn’t happen the World would be eventually full of organisms, and because that without Death, there wouldn’t be evolution. Although very related to biology, Death expands of course to areas like Legal Medicine. As no organism can live forever, due to the causes above, their lives have to end and their bodies eaten by other beings. Serving as food and decreasing the World’s population, the dead being did its “job.”

Philosophy. “Where is my soul…?”

A new vision, and inside one, there are many views of many philosophers about what happens after you die. My opinion is philosophic: I believe that after we die, our souls are transferred to bodies that are about to being made. This means that one of us could have been Napoleon, for example. His soul would be transferred from person to person and a body of today would eventually have it. In fact, it doesn’t quite require being a person. According to me, and lots of other people, a soul of the XXI century could have belonged to a Tyrannosaurus of 66 million years ago. The amount of times that soul was transferred would be huge, of millions of years.

However, this particular theory has a problem: World Population. From the moment it suggests that souls are transferred, it ignores the chance of creating new souls. However, the population of Earth is always increasing, which means that even if everyone died and new people were born, there would still be more people. Those people got to have a soul, which means the theory is wrong. Also, it can’t explain how the first soul was created, from the first life being.

Again, there are many views of many philosophers, and many of them fall into this inconvenient.

Religion. “Behave, or go to Hell.”

A classic opinion many people is share is that after you die, there’s two places possible (which means that you still live in a foreign World): Heaven and Hell. If you’ve a good person, good for others, honest, sincere, you’re likely to go Heaven. If you behaved badly, been selfish, scrooge, a hell raiser, then Hell would be your next home. The way you are judged varies from religion to religion. Ancient Egyptians believed it was a God who did it, and Christians talk about the Purgatory.

Beyond the Heaven-Hell vision, there are many others. Buddhists tell us about reincarnation, which is a totally different process from evaluating your soul and picking your destiny by that. Reincarnation won’t be too different from the soul transferring. However, soul evaluation comes bother us again: Some of the religions who support reincarnation say that if you’re a good soul, you’d reincarnate into a person, if a bad one, an animal.

So it ends.

This is a really thin explanation about Life after Death. There are thousands of other theories that make this article seem an incomplete freak. However, I hope it wakes your interest in the theme.