Life after death? Largest-ever study. - The Independent.
Life After Death In Ancient Civilizations Death and afterlife had a big role in people’s life at the time of ancient civilizations. There are lots of tombs which come from ancient times but you cannot find other structures as much as tombs now because most of them disappeared by passage of time.
In What They Saw at the House of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Death by Karlis Osis, a noted physics professor, and Erlendur Haraldsson, a clinical psychologist. Between them, they had carefully examined 5,000 cases of death-bed visions for nearly two decades starting in 1959. These were culled from observations by 17,000 physicians and nurses.
Because there is no person who goes to death, then comeback and say there's a life after death. In the Bible, says that there's a light, NOT A LIFE. According to some of the Dictionaries, Death is defined as timeless, meaning no life at all. Scientifically based, there is no life after death.
The growing disbelief in life after death has been brought about largely by two influences. The first is science; the second is a philosophy called existentialism. Scientists question many of the biblical concepts such as the creation of the universe and the creation of the human race.
If we begin with Socrates and his idea of life after death, we can see that he implies death brings the soul to a better place. In Socrates’ final speech to the congress that denounces him to death, he states that “either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another” (Plato, p. 8).
Hence, death is inevitable and its time and place is determined even before we are born. The following verse from the Holy Quran proves that there is life after death: “And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah’s way as dead; nay, (they are) alive, but you do not perceive” (2:154).
However, for one so eager in life, Stevenson hasn’t been very co-operative in death. Ten days after he died in hospital on 8 February 2007, The New York Times ran his obituary, mentioning the lock test. Soon, emails, letters and phone calls besieged the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia, the still-active.