Do you believe in life after death? - If you post ...

Imperfect27....Thanks for your lovely recommendation. I did a search for "Badger's Parting Gift" and inadvertently stumbled upon the Youtube (video) version and also found it on Amazon. Thanks once again.

Personally yes. And I've had several experiences to prove this. And my daughter had two wonderful readings from Sally Morgan and Luke Danskin, naming people, events, magical readings. But I know it's not for every one. I truly believe, not on religious grounds tho.

Life after death, wouldn't it be wonderful to meet loved ones again?

I've been very moved by some of these posts. I hope for your sakes that you find the comfort you seek.

I read somewhere a while ago: Fish believe there is only the sea.

I found that most thought provoking.

I had a white feather which floated down towards me not long after my lovely mum died, I put it in a dried flower arrangement in my bedroom where it stayed for over 20 years. Then my lovely dad sadly died too in hospital and when I got home, there on my drawers, in the bedroom laid that feather. How it had become dislodged I don't know but it was the first time it had. I would love to believe in an afterlife, some coincidences cannot easily be explained.

Funny seeing this post, as I was talking to my hubby this lunchtime and said " if I come back as someone else, I hope I have the same knowledge I have now"! Hindsight is such a wonderful!

I agree that in this modern, sceptical age many of us are so determined to reject anything other than that which we can see and touch.
Someone I'm close to saw a healer /psychic when in India. The psychic had never met the person, knew nothing at all about her. The psychic correctly identified how many siblings and the paths they followed. He talked about one relative, correctly identified their relationship and talked in accurate detail about that persons serious health problems. How ?

I'm sure we have ways of communicating which in this modern age we have largely lost. Some years ago I had a very upsetting dream about my DD, and midst all the trauma of it I noticed she had her ears pierced.
Next day I could not wait to phone her to see she was OK. I determined not to mention the nightmare!
To my relief she chatted happily. I then casually asked her if she had her ears pierced. There was along silence, then she said 'Why do you say that?' I told her I had noticed it in a dream. It transpired that the day before she had decide to have her ears pierced, she sat in the salon getting increasingly nervous and when she was called, she jumped up and ran out! I must have picked up her fright.

I certainly do! my mother died in the sixties when I was nineteen. In the 70's I went to see a spiritualist at the Spiritualist Ass of Gt Britain who a friend recommended to me. I only wanted to get through to my mother. The lady I saw knew NOTHING about me and immediately said I am getting your mother and proceeded to tell me how she died ()which were in unusual circumstances)! and told me in detail about my childhood, being sent to boarding school, my mother saying how sorry she was that I had been so unhappy there, etc etc. Everything was spot on! My grandmother who was not religious or spiritual in any way that I knew of was in a hospice in Brighton towards the end of her life. I lived in London. I always visited her at the weekend as I worked in the week. One Wednesday it was summertime I said to my son shall we go and visit nana this evening, (something I never did). We visited and she said that Dad (my grandfather) had been sitting on the end of her bed!!. She died the next day!! I was meant to be there and I do believe Dad was there. On Mother's day a few years ago I was sitting at my computer and I have a photo of my mother on a shelf nearby, it fell down. There was no vibration from anywhere, the photo was NOT near the edge of the shelf but at the back! it had never happened before nor since. I could tell you many other things that have happened!!

Yes, I believe in life after death, a spiritual life rather than a physical one.

I was with a couple of people once,2 were total strangers to me but one was a medium, Susan Roberts in Devon. She suggested she suggested we take an item from each other & see what information it gave us. I was given a ring, just an ordinary one, not valuable. 'Thats been in a fire,' I said, its owner said it had been in 2 fires, I don't know how I knew, I just did. The other was a bracelet, 'a snake has crawled over that,' I said. 'My partner keeps snakes,' its owner said. I don't know how I knew either thing, but I could 'see' snakes & fires in my mind, but not in a visual way. So I know there is more to life than what we currently understand scientifically. I know I didn't do that by summing up the person or 'cold calling' as one poster called it.

willa there is a beautiful book that helps explain loss to children - and adults alike! It is called ' Badgers Parting Gifts' and is based on the /Wind-in -the Willows characters. It starts with Badger going down the 'long tunnel' and all his friends missing him. They all come to realise that he gave them 'parting gifts' of time spent and things he taught them.

Available on an unmentionable website for 1p and good bookshops ...

I like to keep an open mind. People experience strange things when you least expect them.

My oldest daughter had an 'otherworldly' experience after my mother died. Let me add that DD is both mature and quite grounded. She and my mother were always very close so DD was understandably devastated, as we all were after our loss.

The week after the funeral, she was driving from work and listening to the news radio. The death of her grandma was still raw and she wondered whether or not she could know how much we all missed her (if such a thing was possible). Just then the volume faded and there was a lot of static. Amid the static, she heard a grainy (male) voice saying "there is life after death". Then the static became louder and she couldn't make out anything else. A few seconds later, the radio resumed as usual.

DD firmly believes that someone from beyond the grave sensed her anguish and wanted to reassure her. No one will ever convince her otherwise. She owned that car for three years and that radio never failed a single time except at that particular day and time...never before or after!

So, could it have been a radio failure and my DD simply heard what she wanted to hear in the static?...a coincidence or something else? Who knows? ....but like I said, I always keep an open mind.

The cynic in me doesn't believe in Life After Death however,
for my DGS's sake I "play along" (apologies for possible hurtful phrase but not sure how else to put it?). When my mum died last year my grandchildren visited her the day before she died. I think they all understood that they would never see her again. Well my little grandson (then 6) said "I will see grandma M again when I get to heaven won't I grandma?" What can you say? He also talks about her as though she is alive and well in heaven. "grandma M will be making pancakes in heaven won't she (it was one of their favourite thing they did together) etc.

When little Bradley Lowery died earlier this week and my little grandson was very upset indeed. However yesterday he was asking my dad if there would be any football pitches in heaven and whether there would be a ready supply of footballs?

I have said this before to Anniebach that I really wish I could have some kind of religious faith as it must bring so much comfort.

A couple of days after my mum died my daughter and I were in her kitchen when my 2 year old grandson suddenly looked up to the ceiling and said 'Hello Nanny Peg', which was what he had called my mum. A couple of weeks later I dreamed that I met her at a fair and asked her what she was doing there as she was ill. She replied 'It's okay I am alright now'. A few days after my dad died I was dozing in bed when I felt as if someone had kissed me on the lips. When I looked my husband was fast asleep right over the other side of the bed so I like to think that my dad was saying goodbye.

I really can't decide ! In theory I think not, as where on earth would all those souls go to ? back to the dust of creation ? I once read that after 50 years of death all souls are recycled and return in human form as babies ...which could explain why some people feel they have been here before ?

The only experience I can call upon for myself is my dear dad, who lived 200 miles from me, and had not been ill, suddenly appeared in my dining room door ..so clearly one evening at 11pm .....in the morning the hospital phoned to say he had been admitted having pulled the cord in his retirement flat to summon help, and had died at 11pm the previous night ......(it took them a while to find me or else, they said, I would have been called before) .....when I got back home from seeing to the funeral, sorting out his flat etc etc a strange black cat was sitting on my doorstep, obviously a stray and not very well ...I took him in and looked after him and would have kept him but he disappeared as quickly as he had arrived ! Many years later I saw a medium, as we all went from work, thinking it would be interesting ...I had never seen or heard of her before but she mentioned someone had 'passed' and that they had returned in the form of a black cat ....guess work ? maybe, I don't know !

Roll forward 30 years and I was told my cancer was terminal ....this did not upset me, I just prepared everything in advance so that when the time came no one had any problems in sorting my funeral, etc, out ....but I did lie in bed after being told and wondered if I would see all my friends and family who had died ad whether they would be the same age, or older ......this I found quite a way to alleviate any fears I may have had ...the prospect of death does not frighten me ....that, however, was six years ago ,,,I was phoned at home by a Professor who asked if I wanted to try an experimental treatment ,,,so I thought, well, what have I got to lose ? So I said yes, and just last month had my portacath for the chemo drugs taken out ! Voila ! so far so good ......

Thank you Ginny for your comments. I don't believe in after life but I always taught my children , and now my grand children, that we live on though what we teach. I know my father lives in me and I have passed on a lot of what he taught me by example to my children.

No I don't either.

Yes, I do believe, and find it comforting. Not a Christian but have had too many inexplicable experiences to be able to have any doubts whatsoever.

Anniebach - Your message literally brought me to tears, it was so moving and poignant and I totally relate to all the wonderful posts on this site today.
After losing my precious mother some 6 years ago, I eventually took the brave step of visiting a highly thought of medium. What she told me totally knocked me sideways, the accuracy of information passed on from my late father, so much detail so very personal which this lady could never have known. I came away with a lovely warm feeling that my parents were indeed reunited, and that I would one day see them again. There is so much we cannot ever understand, just have faith and take comfort.

I don't know if there's life after death. None of us does for certain. I don't believe in it. I think the dreams we sometimes have, after the death of someone close, are just that. The brain tries to make sense of what's happened. After all, if it's possible for a person who died recently to come to someone in a dream and tell them their dead relative is OK, why didn't the dead relative come much sooner to comfort them with that reassurance?

After my husband died, I had some upsetting dreams about him. In one, he was half dressed and asking me if a certain tie went well with a particular shirt. This was something he often did in life and usually without trousers! The upsetting aspect for me was that I knew he had died but he didn't know. I didn't know how to tell him.

After nine years, I still very nearly, almost call my son by my late husband's name and I certainly remember him most days. We were married for thirty three years, after all. I often say to myself, Keith would've laughed at that, or to my children, your dad would've.... This is how people live on, in our memories.

Anniebach

Thank you Imperfect27 for starting this interesting thread and to everyone for sharing some very emotional feelings. I believe we 'live' on after death but in an altered state. For me, there are so many recorded sightings and hearings of those who have died that I cannot dismiss it all as imagination.

I do not though believe in the religious heaven or hell theories of Christianity. I believe life after death and religion are two different subjects but would never deny the comfort they each can give to those who grieve.

I don't believe in a life after death. However , I do believe that each of us leave something of ourselves behind. Certainly in our genes if we have children. We also leave the things we have taught others and we all touch someone else's life . They on turn pass these things on.

A few weeks ago it was Fathers Day - my 4 year old grandson asked if I was sending a card to my father
No I said
Why not?
Because he lives a long way away
Has he died I was asked
Yes I said
Will you be 'phoning him up?

Does that mean BT knows something that the rest of us have doubts about

It gives me a lot of comfort to believe that there is life beyond this world. It gladdens me to think that I will one day meet again with my dad and those beloved that have gone before. I cannot think that there is nothing but the forever sleep.

Jesus said 'Blessed are they who have not seen yet still believe.'
I think that such are truly blessed, where else would we find such joy and consolation. Some folk say it is just the brain trying to escape reality and make sense of the incomprehensible and these folk wish us joy in our beliefs.
I thank them for that and pray that they may the same understanding.