• Question: is there life after death?

    Asked by 12swanb to Lyn, Katy, Paul, PB, Ruth on 21 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by carlaaa.
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      Peter Balfe answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Hard question, hard answer, no. But what do I know? I’m just a scientist.

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      Ruth Mitchell answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Debated question. I say yes. This is about religion not science – science can’t give us the answer.

      I believe there is a God and there is eternal- 2 options for of how to spend that: heaven or hell. By being in a friendship with God, we go to heaven. The reason I believe this is I don’t see a purpose to life without God or eternal life. Without them both, we are here, help some people, die and then are gone…. That’s a bit sad. Whereas God gives purpose to life and eternal life.

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      Ee Lyn Lim answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      We haven’t found a way to bring anyone back from the dead yet, so we have no one to ask! We don’t know really.

      I personally don’t have a belief either way – maybe there is, maybe there isn’t. But because I don’t know, I do everything for the present – not for something I hope will happen after I die, or in the next life, but for NOW. Help someone. Live my dream. Tell my family I love them. Because maybe there’s all there is to life.

      And if there IS a life after death, I’ll just say ‘Oops’ and start all over again! (Needless to say I don’t believe in heaven or hell…)

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      Katy Brown answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I would say no. I don’t see that as a bad thing though necessarily – we get one chance, why not make the most of it!

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      Paul Waines answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Hi 12swanb- dpends what you mean. If you mean, does our soul live on elsewhere, then I dont think so- apart from in the minds of our surviving relatives. But you could also argue that there is because our bodies go on to support millions of other tiny forms of life as they decay. If you think about it, we are all just being recycled, in a way…

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