What Happens After Death According to Science?

We all know that Science is a general field of study that relies on tangible objects as proof. So when it comes about death, you won’t get any explanations as compared to its philosophical counterpart.

Science don’t actually have an answer about what happens to you after death. Thus, life after death remains a huge question in the field of science.

However, science can explain about what’s going to happen to your physical body. Just like any other meat, your body will start to rot unless, it is embalmed or mummified.

Since your body ultimately stop functioning upon your death, it goes the same with your own mind. Thus, this is one of the main basis why most individuals do not believe in the after-life.

Science do not have any conclusion nor did they find any evidence if a dead person will still continue to think. You may suggest that there is NDE (Near Death Experience) and there were already countless number of individuals who experienced it.

What did these people actually experienced isn’t death but “oxygen deprivation”. You have to know that common individuals can experience NDE as long as they get revive within 3 minutes period. Why? It’s because your brain cells can only last such time duration before they get permanent damage.

There is No Life after Death According to Physicist


If you believe in life-after-death then it’s too sad to say that it does not exist according to a well-respected physicist. The after-life is nothing unlike what is claimed by many fanciful beliefs. So when you die, that’s how everything ends about you. Many people actually fear no-life after death which is perhaps the reason why there are many philosophical beliefs to give them hope.

The physicist behind the claim of no-life after death is “Sean Carroll”. He is a highly respected cosmologist and physics professor at the “California Institute of Technology”. Carroll strongly believe in himself that he finally solved the huge debate about the afterlife through his extensive study of the law of physics.

He claimed that, “in order for the after-life to exist, consciousness needs to be separated from our physical body”.

Carroll seem to have a point here. Throughout history, there wasn’t any record about someone being able to separate his consciousness from his own physical body. It really does sound quite impossible to happen. Thus, there is a huge possibility that Carroll is right about his theory.

His further theory suggests that everything on this world are made out of particles of atom and that includes your own thoughts or consciousness.

Atom

Now, the reason why some individuals experience NDE is that, the atoms that are composed of your consciousness tends to remain much longer when it gets separated from your physical body. This also explains the existence of ghosts or spirit of the dead being sighted and even captured on cameras.

It is indeed a very interesting theory by Carroll but there is one huge question from the critics that also gave me a doubt. There is actually no proof that consciousness are made out of atoms.

Hint of the After-Life Based on Scientific Discovery


If Carroll neglect the existence of life after death, his fellow scientists at the “University of Southampton” performed one of the biggest scientific study about death regarding about the after-life.

Cardiac Arrest

What they did was that, they put a lot of effort conducting close observations and examinations to a total of 2000 patients who suffered from cardiac arrests. They were able to perform this study through the participation of 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria.

So what is the result?

Among all those who survived, 40 percent of them claimed that they had experienced complete “awareness and consciousness” of themselves during the time that they were clinically dead.

Most of the patients had emerged themselves into a dream-like state of consciousness. But, there was one among them with different experience. This person recalled himself leaving out of his own physical body as he get to watch the doctors and nurses performed their job at trying to revive him back.

To support his claim, he was able to recount all the details especially the actions performed by the medical staffs in resuscitating him back to life. This also includes the sounds from the environment particularly the sounds generated by the machines.

The person behind this whole scientific research was Dr. Sam Parnia. He was a former researcher of Southampton University but he transferred at the “State of university of New York”.

The main basis of Dr. Parnia’s study about the life after death is due to the reason that “when the heart stopped beating, this results in the brain putting it immediately to halt from functioning”. To be a lot more specific, it will take about 20 to 30 seconds before your brain completely shuts down itself after your heart cease from working.

Despite the 20 to 30 seconds period, conscious awareness persist to continue being experienced by the patients for up to three minutes.

Base on science itself, the brain is the one responsible in generating thoughts and consciousness. In short, when your brain stopped functioning then you should entirely lose your awareness. But through this study, it tells a different perspective.

Moreover, Dr. Parnia theorized about why not all patients didn’t experienced or had very little memories about their awareness while at the state of being clinically dead were probably due to the drugs and sedatives induced to them.

Unlocking the Secret of the After-Life through Patterns


Another researcher, Dr. David Wilde who is a psychologist of the “Nottingham Trent University” do have another different view of unlocking the secret of the after-life.

After Life Pattern

Dr. Wilde is currently collecting data from various individuals who had experiences with NDE and OBE (Out of the body experience). He believes that through a sufficient gathered data, Dr. Wilde or someone with better logical skill can analyze and discover a pattern.

Conclusion

Can you just imagine if science can discover everything about the after-life?

Chances are, you will be able to prepare yourself from what it is about to come when you die but, only if there is a life-after death.

If there is no life-after death that awaits us at the end then perhaps, this will teach all individuals to put so much value into their lives. This would involve learning to enjoy a lot of things that this world has to offer.

But so far, science is still very far from discovering life after death to provide us any solid evidence. Thus, your fate when your die currently all depends on your own psychological belief.

Do You Have Fear of No Life After Death?

We all know that death is a part of human life and it is inevitable. No one can stop or prevent it from happening where no one has yet to discover a way to immortality which may never going to happen.

Since death puts a final end to a person’s life here on earth, majority of individuals will naturally feel fear about losing their very existence and what they are about to face in the after-life.

Individuals who are at a limited time of being alive due to their severe health conditions are the ones who are often preoccupied with so much worriedness. They worry too much about what will happen to them when they die.

There is no medical cure that can permanently stop a person from worrying but only though counseling. Although, counseling isn’t really effective for everyone because a person’s thought will never go away where it keeps on coming back.

So a person who is dying due to his incurable condition, every time that he counts the remaining days of his life, this will let him be reminded about his approaching death. It is actually a psychological issue that can be so hard to face and overcome.

Psychological Fear

But for a normal healthy person, dying isn’t yet an important issue, that is why they can easily just go on with their own life.

Ignoring Death


Ignoring Death

Perhaps, one of the best way to overcome your fear and anxiety about death is just to ignore anything about death. Think of it as not a big issue which is just a part of life. In short, learn to accept it.

If you are actually in constant fear because you believe that there is no life after death, then you really have to change your philosophical view to a more suitable one. You have to know that there is still no solid evidence that can really supply us with the necessary information about the after-life. Thus, everything relies on your own belief.

By having the right and acceptable belief into your own mind, you will be able to learn and accept death which allows you to overcome the anxiety caused by it especially when your time is about to come.

No Idea about the After Life


No Idea About Death

There are some people who do not totally care about their death and the after-life. Majority of them don’t even have any philosophical beliefs that can guide them about what to expect.

Thus, when their time is about to come to an end, they are the ones who will most likely to suffer so much fear and anxiety.

The feeling is like, you are left clueless not knowing what to do with the remaining time that you still have. There will be a lot of sudden questions about death circulating into their unprepared minds which makes them totally feel disabling.

Philosophical beliefs about life after death


Philosophical Belief

The best way to actually overcome your fear of death particularly if you are afraid that there is no life after death is through philosophical belief.

Go find a spiritual belief that can answer everything that you ask about life after death that really do make sense. There are so many spiritual beliefs out there that you can choose from so I can’t recommend which one of them is right for you. In short, you have to figure it out for yourself.

Through philosophical belief, your mental state will learn to accept that there is a life after death. And common among them all, you will be given a new life into a new world where you will either be punished for your evil sins or rewarded for your good deeds that you’ve done on this physical realm.

3 Common Questions Why People Fear Death


People who found themselves complete happiness on this world that we live today are the ones who often experience so much anxiety due to death. Their fear of death even becomes stronger when they suddenly felt sick or acquired some serious health conditions.

As they get reminded that we all humans needs to die, questions like the following keeps on boggling their own minds.

Is there really life after death?

There are already many individuals who experienced “death for a short while” then they got miraculously revived back to life to share what they experienced. However, their stories seem to be quite different from one another.

In my own opinion, I think that an experience where all the system of your body shuts down for a short amount of time then you suddenly came back to life isn’t considered death. What I consider as death is when a person dies, the body should remain dead for at least several days or even much longer. And when that person came back to life after those number of days, the experience that he or she had maybe more acceptable.

Unfortunately, no one would be able to come back to life for such a long period of time. Since by the time that the human body is dead, all its system will stop to function. This will result into quick deterioration of all the vital parts.

Most parts of your body such as your bone, tendon and skin can survive for as long as 8 to 12 hours period. But as for the brain, the cells can only last for 3 minutes. This is the reason why people who can come back to life after being clinically dead for more than 3 minutes is very rare.

So going back to the question, sad to say that there is still no solid and acceptable answer that we on this current generation cannot accept regarding about life after death.

Is there a God or deities?


Another common question that is related to death is the existence of God or deities.

Again, this is a question with no straight answer. It is more about your spiritual belief of what you want to believe.

Why do we have to die?


If we are going to answer this question according to the field of science, you will simply get an explanation about the cells particularly the aging process of the human body.

But when it comes to spiritual religion, you may get an explanation that God designed it that way for He prepared a much better place for those people who have faith in Him.

Conclusion

People who believes in life after death do have nothing to fear about when they die. But for those who have the opposite belief, they do fear it especially when they have so much to loss on this physical world.

So if you are one among them, the best possible way to overcome your fear is to find a philosophical view about the after-life that you are willing to learn and accept.