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So, what comes next?

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This is directed to the religious among you: What do you believe happens when your life on earth ends?

I'm genuinely curious about what you think. Of course, it's "nice" to believe that your relatives have gone to a better place and you will be reunited with them one day but what is that better place and what evidence is there that such places exist? Whether it's heaven, pugatory or anywhere else, do you believe you will stay there for all eternity and if so, is that comforting?

In case I am asked, my own view is that we are simply returned to the earth from which we came. There is no soul that travels elsewhere. The atoms that make up my physical being will be recycled into other forms in good time. I'm happily reconciled with that fate.

But what does your faith teach you regarding the afterlife? Do you give it any thought?

My apologies if this has been asked before!
 
I'm not really sure, and I don't practice any dogmatic religion, but if anything, I would think there's a "personality" that survives in a "mental energy" sort of fashion. Reincarnation wouldn't come as a surprise to me either. I don't worry about it. Either way, something (or nothing) inevitable.;)
 
I'll become a point of consciousness, free of physical restraints.
 
I am a Christian so I believe we either spend eternity in heaven or in hell when we die depending on if we have been forgiven of our sins atoned for by God's sacrifice on the cross. I believe we can't work our way into heaven because we'll never be able to meet the standard, which is why God removes our sins when we repent and accept Jesus, so that we can sinlessly and blamelessly enter heaven and escape a punishment of eternal hell.
 
The worms go in, the worms go out...

The worms play pinochle on my snout.
 
I'm not religious, but I know there's an afterlife if one wants it.
 
digsbe said:
I am a Christian so I believe we either spend eternity in heaven or in hell when we die depending on if we have been forgiven of our sins atoned for by God's sacrifice on the cross. I believe we can't work our way into heaven because we'll never be able to meet the standard, which is why God removes our sins when we repent and accept Jesus, so that we can sinlessly and blamelessly enter heaven and escape a punishment of eternal hell.
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Thanks digsbe.

What do you imagine heaven to be like? Presumably you go to church? Does your priest describe what to expect when you get there (or hell for that matter)?
 
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