Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife By Mary Roach

There is survival after death where the death becomes parts of the soul and the body.

Phaedo – the existence and nature of the afterlife and the immortality and reincarnation of the soul

When we have strong love for others, we take risks, we go against our beliefs, we put ourselves in danger, and we let our loved ones go. Without love, there would be none of that. In this book, The Dead and the Gone, written by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a comet smashes the moon closer to earth and it creates all sorts of problems. Alex, a teenage boy with two sisters, starts a long journey of survival and risks. This story is so realistic, at times was hard to read. You start to ask yourself these tough questions, like what you would do in a specific situation. Through out the whole story, love is definitely a recurring theme. It shows you how well love can hold a family is distress together.

Life after death is a very controversial topic around the world and in society. Throughout our lives, we often wonder ‘what happens when we die?’. There are many different beliefs as to what happens to our bodies and to our souls after we die. Religion provides answers to this question, however different religions offer different beliefs and answers to this question. There are two basic kinds of religion in this world: Eastern and Western. Through learning about the key beliefs of Catholics and Hindus I have been able to learn some similar and some different perspectives on the forever debatable question ‘what happens when we die?’.

Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The real question of life after death isn 't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” The idea that death is inevitable is well known by everyone, yet no one is certain as to what happens afterwards. Even though the subject of life after death has been argued for centuries by many philosophers and theologians. In the article Sign Here If You Exist, Jill Sisson Quinn adequately employs figurative language, rhetoric questionings, and personal anecdotes to demonstrate a controversial argument on the topic of life after death.

As I read the reading “death”, I can conclude that the main idea for this reading that the author wants his readers to believe that the death is not something scary. We all should not be afraid about the fact that our bodies will cease to exist after death.

There is belief of life after death. The soul of a dead person first lingers around the earth for three days as a result of separation from its body. On the third day, the soul is judged by its doings an is either taken to paradise (heaven) or to the world of punishment (hell).

All living beings promise one thing when they are born and set in existence; that they will live and then after they have exercised their temporal being they sign off to death. The contract of a human being’s life is that it comes with mortality, so we do as much as we can in

“The Universe as a Primal Scream” clearly provides a questioning emotion on the topic of what is to come afterlife. Tracy K Smith is a renowned

The novel, The Dead and the Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, is about a 17 year old boy having to be responsible for his two siblings, 12 and 14, in New York, after a natural disaster that affected many places throughout the world. In this science fiction novel, the Earth’s moon is knocked off of its orbit, and closer to the Earth, after being hit by an asteroid. This was followed by tsunamis, earthquakes, and many other natural disasters, that made food supply and comfortable shelter/ homes low, expensive, and hard to find or get, because of the gravitational pull of the moon becoming much stronger. On the first day of this catastrophe, the main characters’, Alex, Bri, and Julie, mother, Mami, was called in from the hospital, and the three never received word from her after that day. As for their father, Papi, he had gone to Puerto Rico for his mother’s funeral.

1. What proof of live after death is there besides that everything has its opposites and one must follow the other can be presented? I am not sold by this argument, as a person of science I need more than wordy speculation to spend my life preparing for the afterlife and looking forward to it.

Death is defined as the end of life; the cessation of all vital functions in an organism indicated by a loss of heartbeat, breathing and brain activity. Although this translation is more than adequate, technical references to death and dying fail to capture the essence and impact of our eternal and inevitable demise. In every era in human history, cultures have exhibited fascination in death and the afterlife. All over the globe nations practice rituals and ceremonies for their recently deceased loved ones, while other unclaimed cadavers are thrown into incinerators like useless waste material. As human beings, we all face the uncomfortable and unavoidable fact that, someday, our life will come to an end. Nonetheless, the primary hurdle that still remains is fully understanding what it means to die - which is perhaps one area of inquisition that science fails to complete.

As I have progressed in reading this book called Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives, I really come to enjoy all of the stories that David Eagleman, the author, talks about and explains. Chapters thirteen through twenty really have some interesting ideas and aspects on how the afterlife is going to be for someone. In class, we sometimes talk about how we think our afterlives are going to play out and the materials or objects that are in them. This book is really interesting and I have definitely enjoyed reading it so far.

The renowned question “What lies beyond?” has no suitable or improper answer, only well-argued and sustained responses.  Author, neuroscientist, and Stanford Professor David Eagleman takes his audience on several journeys with forty distinct destinations in effort to answer the prominent question in his book “Sum.” The brief stories entertain ideas about not only how humans get on this planet and what awaits them past the grave but what our purpose is to begin with. Eagleman engages his readers by voyaging to other dimensions using detail. The details stipulated within the stories cause the audience to feel as if they were embodying his notions. In the story Giantess he depicts the after-life by saying “

One of the strengths that this article has is that they provided a broad hypothesis. It was not specific and that gave them more room to play around with how they want to test the beliefs on life-after-death. They basically just wanted to explore from what was found in previous search on the afterlife and find more detailed data. Another strengths in this article were the specific questions that the participants were asked about their beliefs in the afterlife. The