Last time I put my two cents in on a post like this, the Christian fanatics jumped all over me and said that only those saved by Jesus go to heaven and the rest of us will go to hell. Just wait until they wake up and start posting
@Jenny1234 Christians are arrogant like that. They're going to get a Hell of a shock when they find themselves facing Odin at the Doors to Valhalla. :)
SW-User
I was legally dead for three minutes and I saw and felt nothing ...just black ..darkness
@Zingastar it happens when mind is not capable of thinking, someone goes to comma. We can't see or experience what happens after death. But only the soul. Soul is speechless.
@Zingastar When christians have a near death experioence, they often like to claim they were really dead and that they saw their god or some other vision that "proves" their god is real. @SW-User had an NDE but didn't see anything, thus proving, to the same standard, that "god" doesn't exist.
@SW-User I don't think you were legally dead according to the UK definition: [quote]The accepted standard is that death is: “the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness, combined with irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe… and therefore irreversible cessation of the integrative function of the brainstem”[/quote] Nor under the US rule: [quote]The key statutory requirement under the UDDA is that an individual must have undergone “the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain”, and that a determination of death “must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.”[/quote] https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anae.14568
So many sad comments on this. Especially to see it as God wanting to harm or send people to hell. That has never been the case, and he never left us to guess about what happens after death, but this is as far as I'm going to take it, because hateful people on here accuse Christians of too many awful, ugly things, lie about them and target them, and I'm not going to feed into that type nasty attitude.
At the time of death or shortly thereafter the person's spirit or soul leaves their body. Some spirits stay on earth while others may travel elsewhere.
I think the Tibetans have it right. Thousands of Buddhist monks over a thousand years have explored the Bardo (The state between death and the next life). I recommend The Tibetan Book of the Dead to see their results. I prefer the Robert Thurman translation. And it has a great introduction to Tibetan Buddhist history.
When I think about dying it terrifies me because I imagine unbearable suffocating for several minutes. I hope some biological function prevents it from being unbearably painful.
