So what exactly happens after death? Do we reincarnate into a different form? Do we somehow take someone else’s body? The idea of what occurs after death has been controversy for many years. There’s has been theories and evidence that try to understand what exactly happens. According to Socrates he believes in the idea that there’s still life after death and the soul and the body are two separate things. Furthermore, his ideas would be considered what dualist beliefs. Meanwhile, another philosopher, Bertrand Russell, believes that there’s no such thing as soul and everything could be explained through physical explanation. More importantly, his ideas would be considered what materialist believe because he presumes that human being is …show more content…
The water is always changing, but it keeps to the same course because previous rain have worn a channel. While this is the case, he continues to support his argument by explaining how the brain will dissolve at death along with the memories because there’s no reason to expect “a river to persist in its old course after an earthquake has raised a mountain where a valley used to be” (Russell 89). Moreover, Russell believes that our personality are passed on by either habit or heredity and that the inherited part could be genetically passed on but doesn’t survive the dissolution of the body. Once again, the memory can be affected by the brain, “that a virtuous person be rendered vicious by encephalitis lethargic, and that a clever child can be turned into an idiot by lack of iodine” (Russell 90). Yet, still the mind might not survive because it could deteriorate because the destruction of the brain structure which only leaves to death. Besides, Russell presumed that the belief in immortality happened because people feared death. However, dualists on the other hand believe quiet differently in the idea of what happens after death.
Meanwhile, Socrates argues differently of what happens after death. Socrates would be considered someone who is dualist. A dualist is someone who believes that the body and the soul is what composes a human being. Therefore, there should be no reason to fear
According to the Bible, there is life after death. When people die, the body becomes separated from the spirit and the soul. It is the body that remains on earth while the spirit goes back to God (John 11:25). Here, depending on your deeds on earth, the spirit may be accepted into Gods kingdom (heaven) or it may be subjected to punishment through hellfire (Matthew 10:28). (625 words)
Reincarnation is the belief that when someone or thing dies that their spiritual being travels into a new-born body and continues living another life. Reincarnation is not limited to humans but also insects, animals, and in some cases even plants. With lengthy claims for centuries and even two mass religions/ways of life being dedicated to believing in reincarnation, many have the same question: Is reincarnation even real? If it is real, how does it work and where’s the science behind the belief? Where did reincarnation even come from?
For natural science, the main position on life after death is that there isn’t any. Most scientists today do not believe that any survival of human consciousness after death can occur, and above all they do not think it could be studied scientifically (Stevenson, 2000, p.10). Some do not believe in the idea of consciousness, that life is just a physical result of nature. The idea of reincarnation, or any post-life survival belief, is paranormal in this context since it goes against what scientists believe they know about the world. Naturally, this would make the idea hard to accept for those who have faith in science. Reincarnation being real would change the way we look at not only death, but life as well, and the entire creation and development
In Socrates first argument is claims that “no one knows if death may be the greatest good” and if someone has fear towards death, then they are looking at death in a wrong way. Fearing death is a mistake because we don’t really know what will happen after we die. Maybe death could be a good thing and we live an afterlife. After death is a unknown place and we can only imagine what we think might happen but we can’t guarantee it. In today’s society, there are many religions that believe in having what is called “recreation” where our physical body decays, but our spiritual body will reborn maybe as an animal or maybe another body.
Part A: What do you think happens after you die? Explain your answer. What factors have influence these views?
Socrates provides an idea that “philosophers are devoted to death”. He argues that philosophy is the practice of death and death is the separation of the soul from the body. One simply cannot study philosophy if their body is influenced by outside sources. The body distracts from reality and in order to study philosophy, one must have to act separate from your body not receiving satisfactions from life. This allows for the soul to get in touch with the pure truth. Socrates also states that the soul moves on to another life after death. He says that “there genuinely is a returning to life, the living come to be from the dead and the souls of the dead are” (Plato 46). The soul is what makes up the body. Your mind and how you act are what make up the soul. In order for there to be a new life, a soul has to be present. The souls continue to live on searching for more experiences to
What happens to our bodies when we die? There are many different options we have when it comes to the handling of our bodies; whether we choose a more traditional route, such as burial or cremation, or an alternative method such as the newer idea of being buried in a suit made of mushrooms rather than a coffin (Rogers). There’s even the third option donating your body in some way to science to aid in education and scientific advancement in the years after you are no longer alive. The concept that bothered me the most, however, between the readings and attending the field trip to the funeral home was not how to treat the body after death, but rather who decides the way in which it is treated.
Most religions do not believe life after death. Most of them believe in incarnation. But as a Christian, I believe they is heaven and hell. If you are living right with God, your soul goes back to heaven but if not, you go hell. As the bible says in Revelation 20:10 “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” (King James Bible, 2016, p.6).
What happens after death? Do souls go to Heaven? Are souls reincarcerated? Religions such as Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism believe in a form of rebirth after death. In Megan Sapnar’s “Car Wash” she uses text, sound, and animation to imitate the theory.
When you die, you are most likely taken to the afterlife, where you choose or something chooses for you the next life you live as.
For centuries, people have been fascinated with death. Many questions are asked about what happens after we die, and these questions may forever remain unanswered. As well as beliefs, everyone has an idea of what they wat to happen to them after that die. You may want to be cremated and have your ashes spread across an open meadow, or you may just want to be put in a coffin, and laid into the ground. As it was hundreds of years ago with different beliefs, it is the same today. Different religions, different Gods, and different ways of thinking. But how exactly are they different?
In this paper, I intend to explore the theory of reincarnation that is supported by witness accounts of it occurring. These testimonies will serve as evidence to validate the theory. I will discuss my personal argument as to why I believe reincarnation is not validated and does not exist. My argument will be supported by more investigations that disprove the personal stories, thereby invalidating the hypothesis.. Finally, I hope to explain why I chose my argument, one based on personal religious beliefs and lack of scientific evidence, disproves reincarnation.
Death is terrifying. Almost everyone is afraid of the uncertain, and what happens to each of us after we die is ironically one of the many unanswerable questions of the living. Despite various explanations from different religions and other theories, there is no definite answer regarding an afterlife. However there can be some validation in saying that there is life after death because the memories of a person remain alive among those who live. The dead affect the living. The dead cast a shadow on the present, and force people to reflect on their mistakes. So even after death, someone can have an impact on the actions of those they leave behind, and this is where life and death intersect.
Death is a fact of life that everyone have to go through. There are around 150,000 people die each day worldwide. A person is considered dead when the heart stops and the brain is no longer able to perceive things around. The departure is the result of many factors: illness, accident or simply due to aging. There are many questions about "life after death". One of the seemingly authentic answers based on scientific research is "the man who gives nature back what has taken from nature." Results from several studies have shown that the human body, after a period of time buried underground, decomposes into chemicals that nourish other organisms in
There could be no one that can explain life after death, not even those who study the death process. All human knowledge or thinking about death are all just the same and equal. The concept of death is it is only a part of human nature. There are so many possibilities like, it could be a termination of human body or it could be a portal to another life. Death could be a process wherein our life is continuing to extinguish until it would be gone or it