Can the consciousness live on after the human body dies?

[Questions]

I had a message from the 'Other Side' recently and I quite clearly heard this guy talk about the winning lottery numbers for this week. Problem was he kept calling me Dave - which is not my name - so I ignored it all.

 

[Questions]

My 4 year old son was telling me about 'silly grandad' once and I told him that he had never met him because he had died 7 years before he was born. "No he sat on my bed last week and told me some of his funny stories" my lad said.
I clipped him round the ear hole and told him not to tell lies........ But seriously it did freak me out for a couple of days before I realised he had seen some pictures of him and had heard all the tales about his storytelling and had obviously had a vivid dream.



I think.

And all the strength to you Bushy at the moment in what is so obviously such a hard time for you all.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

For what it's wort Bushy condolences on the hand you and yours have been dealt.

I was completely agnostic on an afterlife until I spent a few years as an A&E nurse. Now I am sure that there is something after this.

Not going into it but have had this proved to me more than once.

 

[Twizzle]

Recently it was discovered that there was brain activity after the body died.

After my Dad died, he came to me in a vivid dream and said that being embalmed was "an erroneous experience".
Since I didn't know what erroneous meant I had to look it up - so it wasn't me inducing the message and that dream.

 

[wunt be druv]

I was very seriously electrocuted and clearly remember laying on the floor unable to let go of the live cable in my hands,I was thinking "what a stupid way to die", somebody/something came to me and said "You're not ready yet" and pulled the wire out of my grip.When help arrived,nobody admitted to it being one of them or had seen anyone else around who could have done it.So,yes,from my own experiences there is something else,and I have to say I have never felt so relaxed and peaceful as I did at that moment I believed I was dying.

 

[perseus]

Just the gold crown (upper molar)

0-3 down to Bournemouth at home and half the Goldstone had left. I stayed on. It would have been a legend of we even crossed the half-way line., I would stay omn, back then.

What carries on I call the SOUL. That's after the maggots etc.

 

[HovaGirl]

thanks mate, i agree with you there , i also dont want to get in a religious argument , but i think that we do live on in some form , i think life , how everything was created, not just on earth , but in the infinity of space, is far too complex to have been an accident also for the human mind to understand.

More or less what I think. (Sorry to hear about your Dad.)

 

[HovaGirl]

My 4 year old son was telling me about 'silly grandad' once and I told him that he had never met him because he had died 7 years before he was born. "No he sat on my bed last week and told me some of his funny stories" my lad said.
I clipped him round the ear hole and told him not to tell lies........ But seriously it did freak me out for a couple of days before I realised he had seen some pictures of him and had heard all the tales about his storytelling and had obviously had a vivid dream.



I think.

And all the strength to you Bushy at the moment in what is so obviously such a hard time for you all.

Apparently, this sort of thing in little children is not uncommon. They start out quite spiritual and unquestioning but lose the ability by about 5 or 6 years of age.

 

[HovaGirl]

What carries on I call the SOUL.

Yes, I believe the soul is "allocated" to a body. We are our soul. The body is just a lump of chemicals and electrical impulses associated with our soul. When our bodies rot, the soul lives on and is allocated another body, but the memories are erased. Occasionally, they are not fully erased giving access to that soul's previous memories and experiences.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Each to their own views but I do question that you knew nothing before you were born...you learn about life that was before from history...so why do you know anything after you die,the body and the brain die...you don't lay there saying...'Oh! I have died' because you have nothing to think with,you don't know you have been born,you don't know about the life you've had. We like to think there is something after death because we can't imagine the world without us.These are my opinions and do not in anyway rubbish your beliefs. If I'm wrong I will come back and tell you how Albion are going to do the following season......get your bets on fellas

 

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My 4 year old son was telling me about 'silly grandad' once and I told him that he had never met him because he had died 7 years before he was born. "No he sat on my bed last week and told me some of his funny stories" my lad said.
I clipped him round the ear hole and told him not to tell lies........ But seriously it did freak me out for a couple of days before I realised he had seen some pictures of him and had heard all the tales about his storytelling and had obviously had a vivid dream.



I think.

And all the strength to you Bushy at the moment in what is so obviously such a hard time for you all.

cheers mate

 

[User removed 4]

For what it's wort Bushy condolences on the hand you and yours have been dealt.

I was completely agnostic on an afterlife until I spent a few years as an A&E nurse. Now I am sure that there is something after this.

Not going into it but have had this proved to me more than once.

thks for tha BH , i wouldnt mind hearing of your experiences in a pm ? completely understand if you dont want to though.

 

[Simster]

Sorry to hear about your parents [MENTION=11956]bushy[/MENTION]. It must be hard enough going through it with one, I can't imagine having both of them in such a bad way.

I too believe in something after death, just not sure what. I've heard too much anecdotal evidence from people I know, love and trust for it to be dismissed out of hand.

 

[User removed 4]

Sorry to hear about your parents [MENTION=11956]bushy[/MENTION]. It must be hard enough going through it with one, I can't imagine having both of them in such a bad way.

I too believe in something after death, just not sure what. I've heard too much anecdotal evidence from people I know, love and trust for it to be dismissed out of hand.

cheers simmo

 

[KZNSeagull]

Hello [MENTION=11956]bushy[/MENTION]. Am very sorry to hear about your parents.

My father was in a similar situation to yours but mercifully he passed away last night without suffering too much. My reason for writing is that if you have not done so, please make sure that you have said everything that you want to say to your parents before they go. It helps.

This is a horrible situation that you are in at the moment and I feel for you. Chin up, Chap!

 

[User removed 4]

Hello [MENTION=11956]bushy[/MENTION]. Am very sorry to hear about your parents.

My father was in a similar situation to yours but mercifully he passed away last night without suffering too much. My reason for writing is that if you have not done so, please make sure that you have said everything that you want to say to your parents before they go. It helps.

This is a horrible situation that you are in at the moment and I feel for you. Chin up, Chap!

I did think of that , especially as our relationship has sometimes been difficult, he doesnt do the " i love you dad" type conversations , so i will just have to bite the bullet and say these things anyway, so sorry to hear about your loss, but hopefully you can take comfort from the fact that your dad didnt suffer .

 

[KZNSeagull]

I did think of that , especially as our relationship has sometimes been difficult, he doesnt do the " i love you dad" type conversations , so i will just have to bite the bullet and say these things anyway, so sorry to hear about your loss, but hopefully you can take comfort from the fact that your dad didnt suffer .

Thanks.

Our relationship was difficult also. Just being there with him will help and if you feel the need to say things then do so - it is up to you. Dont think I am forcing you!!

All the best.

 

[Brovion]

I did think of that , especially as our relationship has sometimes been difficult, he doesnt do the " i love you dad" type conversations , so i will just have to bite the bullet and say these things anyway, so sorry to hear about your loss, but hopefully you can take comfort from the fact that your dad didnt suffer .

Thanks.

Our relationship was difficult also. Just being there with him will help and if you feel the need to say things then do so - it is up to you. Dont think I am forcing you!!

All the best.

Just to add my two-penn'orth: I too had an 'up and down' relationship with my dad (bastard tried to make me a Palace fan for one thing). We never said "I love you", and I think there were times when we probably didn't, but he was always my dad and certainly in the last twenty years of his life things were really good between us - or at least as good as they could be.

When he was dying I went to visit him every day in hospital. Never in that time did we say "I love you" or have any type of clear-the-air conversation. And I don't regret it; I don't think now seven years later "Oh if only ..." If either of us had said it I think it we'd have both been a bit embarrassed. Emotionally repressed some might say, but that's the way things were between us, even in the hospital we just talked about football, cricket and family matters. Everyone's different and if I could go back I wouldn't change those last few weeks.

Really sorry to hear about your dad KZNSeagull.

 

[User removed 4]

Just to add my two-penn'orth: I too had an 'up and down' relationship with my dad (bastard tried to make me a Palace fan for one thing). We never said "I love you", and I think there were times when we probably didn't, but he was always my dad and certainly in the last twenty years of his life things were really good between us - or at least as good as they could be.

When he was dying I went to visit him every day in hospital. Never in that time did we say "I love you" or have any type of clear-the-air conversation. And I don't regret it; I don't think now seven years later "Oh if only ..." If either of us had said it I think it we'd have both been a bit embarrassed. Emotionally repressed some might say, but that's the way things were between us, even in the hospital we just talked about football, cricket and family matters. Everyone's different and if I could go back I wouldn't change those last few weeks.

Really sorry to hear about your dad KZNSeagull.

You've just described to a T how it will be with my dad , I dont think there will be any need for words, just being there is enough.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Just to add my two-penn'orth: I too had an 'up and down' relationship with my dad (bastard tried to make me a Palace fan for one thing). We never said "I love you", and I think there were times when we probably didn't, but he was always my dad and certainly in the last twenty years of his life things were really good between us - or at least as good as they could be.

When he was dying I went to visit him every day in hospital. Never in that time did we say "I love you" or have any type of clear-the-air conversation. And I don't regret it; I don't think now seven years later "Oh if only ..." If either of us had said it I think it we'd have both been a bit embarrassed. Emotionally repressed some might say, but that's the way things were between us, even in the hospital we just talked about football, cricket and family matters. Everyone's different and if I could go back I wouldn't change those last few weeks.

Really sorry to hear about your dad KZNSeagull.

Thanks Brovion.

I spent 10 days with him a couple of weeks ago and whilst we didn't do the "I love you" bit either, it was nice just to be there for him. He was actually in denial that he was dying anyway, so that made things tricky, but I have no regrets. It was horrible having to say goodbye when I left and you never really know how you will react until it happens. But at least I got the chance, thankfully, which many people do not.