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PatKirby · M
This is an important point you bring up here. I think that apart from being revived from clinical death, as in a hospital or emergency room setting, no one really knows unless you actually die. People who go through these near-death/out of body experiences describe a similar ordeal - they rise above and see their body being worked on by a medical team, then they go down this tunnel of light and are reunited with loved ones and sometimes meet a powerful, yet peaceful, being of light who asks you if you'd like to stay or go back. For the ones that decide to come back, they're suddenly thrust back into their body and continue this life. I figure for those who decide to stay, well we won't be hearing from them anytime soon. They all emphasize an overwhelming sense of peace come over them and say not to be afraid of death, that it's only a transition.
Scripture calls it a soul or spirit, pseudo-science and other philosophies and people refer to it as an astral body. Either way, due to these first-hand and consistent near-death/out of body reports we keep getting from those who've actually died and came back I think that our living essence carries on after life permanently and is immutable. But I cannot prove that, I would have to die first.
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Scripture calls it a soul or spirit, pseudo-science and other philosophies and people refer to it as an astral body. Either way, due to these first-hand and consistent near-death/out of body reports we keep getting from those who've actually died and came back I think that our living essence carries on after life permanently and is immutable. But I cannot prove that, I would have to die first.
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