Our reality is a depressing mixture of accidents, terminal illness, and homicide. A misstep down the stairs, a crash of metal on a sheet of ice, a drunken plunge. All of which have one thing in common --they lead to the inevitable conclusion of death. Our reality is that at every waking moment, we are risking our lives.
We are taught to live life to the fullest because like any other mammal, we will eventually die. So it’s impossible to not inquire about what happens after this stage. What happens to our bodies, our minds, and our very essence.
Science behind the human body has determined that any possibility of a heaven (or hell) is empirically impossible.
We are blessed with one lifetime to spend. And that is all we get. “Death
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Patients tend to regard dead relatives, important religious figures, or some variation of a light. For instance, the International Association for Near Death Studies mentions a dying woman and her experience with the afterlife after a hysterectomy, “I could feel myself leaving, and in an instant the most beautiful Beings of Light surrounded me”. Similar stories have appeared throughout media and literature for centuries. However, deathbed visions of the heightened conscious are not proof of an afterlife, but another example of human …show more content…
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around”
-Thomas Edison Our brain controls everything we do --everything we are. We can’t thrive in any world without the brain.
Life after death makes the definitive claim that the soul is not material, yet contains information like any other person. Philosophers Keith Augustine and Michael Martin used this idea to refute the afterlife “myth”. Their analysis resulted in a powerful essay spanning over 675 pages, “The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death”. They concluded that no desirable or comprehensible version of the soul could survive brain death. The brain is arguably considered the most crucial organ in the human body. It controls our actions and reactions, enables us to think and feel, and facilitates our communication --all the qualities that makes us human.
There’s a vital connection between the brain and the soul that is the foundation to the afterlife we understand. An afterlife where we have the ability to breathe and essentially live