RE: Is there any evidence we dont live on in some way after death
July 14, 2011 at 6:43 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2011 at 7:02 am by Napoléon.)
You must first ask what it is which you define as life. Or even 'living'.
Now personally when discussing humans I would tend to accept that in order to 'be alive' the brain must be active in some way.
When you die, the brain ceases to operate, and due to this the bodily functions you would associate with a living creature stop also.
Short answer is without the brain there is no organically possible way of having conscious thought, nor any way to operate an advanced organism such as a human being without a brain. When the impulses in the brain stop, that is when it is generally accepted that a person is dead. So scientifically there is no 'life after death', in any form because in order to have such 'life' you must be 'alive' which is what I have described as above. The whole premise of death is that there is no life. No function. No brain activity. Nothing.
Any form of life after death would be in no way recognisable or similar to life as it is now, that is ofcourse if it is at all possible (which if you look at it from a scientific perspective is not because it goes against the very definition of what being 'alive' is).
Essentially any reasoning for life after death is simply wishful thinking, and as the scientific descriptions and evidence of what happens when we die contradict it, people generally only believe in life after death because they can't comprehend the fact that once you die, you die.
I look at it as though we just simply revert to the state which we were before we were born. No consciousness, no life.
PS. I've just tried to outline why life after death is a contradiction by it's own very nature. If you want 'evidence' go read a biology book. Alternatively you can look at this Wiki page to see exactly what the scientific descriptions are regarding what happens when you die: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
In order to understand why there is no life after death, maybe you should try and understand what 'life' is and what 'death' is. The two are not compatible. You are either one or the other.
Now personally when discussing humans I would tend to accept that in order to 'be alive' the brain must be active in some way.
When you die, the brain ceases to operate, and due to this the bodily functions you would associate with a living creature stop also.
Short answer is without the brain there is no organically possible way of having conscious thought, nor any way to operate an advanced organism such as a human being without a brain. When the impulses in the brain stop, that is when it is generally accepted that a person is dead. So scientifically there is no 'life after death', in any form because in order to have such 'life' you must be 'alive' which is what I have described as above. The whole premise of death is that there is no life. No function. No brain activity. Nothing.
Any form of life after death would be in no way recognisable or similar to life as it is now, that is ofcourse if it is at all possible (which if you look at it from a scientific perspective is not because it goes against the very definition of what being 'alive' is).
Essentially any reasoning for life after death is simply wishful thinking, and as the scientific descriptions and evidence of what happens when we die contradict it, people generally only believe in life after death because they can't comprehend the fact that once you die, you die.
I look at it as though we just simply revert to the state which we were before we were born. No consciousness, no life.
PS. I've just tried to outline why life after death is a contradiction by it's own very nature. If you want 'evidence' go read a biology book. Alternatively you can look at this Wiki page to see exactly what the scientific descriptions are regarding what happens when you die: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
In order to understand why there is no life after death, maybe you should try and understand what 'life' is and what 'death' is. The two are not compatible. You are either one or the other.
