Religion Humans and Death Technically, of Course,

Religion

Humans and Death

Technically, of course, it is impossible for a human being to "survive" death. The body is buried and regenerates back into the earth, and the person is gone. There is no survival, and it happens to everyone, no matter how important or insignificant his or her life has been. However, life after death is another matter. Most every religion in the world believes strongly in life after death, and many of the world's greatest thinkers engage in the belief too, if only in vague terms. For example, Plato thought that the soul survived after death and simply continued "living" by entering another body (Vardy & Arliss 123). This seems to be a fairly reasonable thought, and one that explains how many people visualize life after death.

Personally, I do not believe that human beings survive death, or "come back" after death. I personally have lost very many friends and family members, and none of them have ever "come back" and reassured me or contacted me, and some of them would, I know. I do not believe that the soul returns to another person, and that a soul can think or feel or communicate with other people. In that, I think my beliefs are close to those of Descartes, who said some of the same things. In addition, because man is simply an animal form, we can see by the animals around us that they do not "come back" or return again in another form. They simply pass on, and so do we. I believe that there is only one life and that we must live it well and be the best person we can be, because we will not get another chance at it.