I am secretly hoping that there is an afterlife, and indeed meaning to our
lives and my own. I mean its extremely weird to think that I mean nothing in the
universe when I have so much conscious thought and can think about these
possibilities in the first place.

  I think to say we mean nothing when we can even explore these limits in the first
place is a contradiction.

  This is an interesting one isn’t it, this life after death debate.
I must say that whilst I agree totally with your theory that it must be a
50/50 chance, I would like to add a little extra.

  I see it like this. To you and I, and anybody else that follows the
same logic, there must indeed be a 50/50 chance. In other words, there either
is, or there isn’t a life after death. The reason it’s a 50/50 for us, is
simply because (as you have said), we have no proof either way, either from
evidence or experience.

  But what about those people that claim to have experienced a life
after death scenario? If their claims where true and they really have
experienced another life, then they would know it to be a fact i.e. 100%,
a fact, no question about it, (even if they couldn’t prove it to another
person)!

  Now I’m not suggesting that any of these people are telling the
real truth, and in any case I could never know (unless they could offer proof)
because I would need to have experienced it myself in order to substantiate
their claim. It is entirely for this reason, that I feel it is important for
me not to dismiss their claims out of hand. After all, how could I possibly
have an opinion on something that I have absolutely no knowledge about,
something that I don’t even know is real.

  These people may just be stark raving mad, or simply have received
signals from their brain, telling them that life after death is real (and
making up an experience), even though it’s not.

  My point is this. The 50/50 theory may be acceptable to the inexperienced
like you and me, but to the experienced, it would be a false concept.
The experienced would know that our 50/50 theory is wrong. They would know
that when we die we are re-born or exist in some other way, shape or form,
because they would have experienced it, wouldn’t they?

  If this were the case, the experienced ones would look at
people like you and me and take pity on us. They would surely want to let
us know that there was life after death, if only we’d listen. Imagine
their frustration when we laughed at them and called them mad when they
tried to tell us.

  Without the ability to prove it beyond any reasonable doubt to us,
 the iexperienced would simply have to stand back and watch us go
through our entire lives just wondering! Yet, if only we’d listen, we would
know. If only we would believe them, we could live our lives today, safe in
the knowledge that when we finished our lives, we would be ready for the
next one!

  Why is it that those of us who did not have a
particular religion 'forced' upon us as youngsters, & were given the
opportunity to choose, when we are old enough to understand what we
believed in, have mostly chosen NOT to believe in organised religion?

  Answers obvious isn't it!? 

  I really hope there is an afterlife and i hope this makes sense. I
didn't used to believe in it but now after lots of research I am
beginning to believe in it all!  But again there is still that 50%
chance!!! But if there wasnt an afterlife then how can ghosts exist
and why would loads of people from all religions in the world be
telling such similar stories about their NDE's. The Bible says
something about what happens to us so why would the bible lie?

  Mediums can have contact with the dead so that means that physical
bodies cant be entirely dead - it cant be the end of the world as
how could mediums talk to the dead? Their spirits would have to be
somewhere, else the mediums couldnt contact them!

  But why cant mediums sense guardian angels but they can sense ghosts?
Also if there really is an afterlife why isnt guardian angels really
guarding people and why isnt the guardian angels of people who are
now ghosts not helping them to heaven instead of them being frustrated
at their place of haunt?  Scientists put it down to the work of the
brain but I am really hoping there is another world out there!

  But then even if you can get as much evidence as poss about an
afterlife - you can never really be sure!! Theres only one way
that you can proove there is an afterlife and thats when you die!!!
But when some people die due to murders etc why cant they make
themselves appear to people they love etc so they know they're alright!
Why does God not do this or let people come back from the dead in
another form to show people on earth that there really is an
afterlife!!! The afterlife will certainly continue to keep me confused
and interested until the day I die.

  I have always thought that this life had significance, i.e. that we
were here for a purpose, and this idea was strengthened when my
husband and I had a baby boy who was stillborn two years ago. The
experience was very traumatic but was accompanied not only by a
sense that Joshua continues to exist in some form, but by a very
powerful sense of what was important. I remember thinking at the
time that all that mattered was love and more than that, that love
was the only reality and the only law in the universe. This experience
has not faded, and it was the most certain feeling that I have ever
had. I don't suppose that this proves anything scientific, but for me,
I hope that this 'truth' will be the foundation of the rest of my
life. I was a Christian once, but I never found a truth as personal
as this, although Christian theology does say that God is love.