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

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.

No I don't either.

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.

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 ......

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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!!

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 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 ?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

mauraB Thankyou for saying what I couldn't put into words ...

I don't believe in life after death but something happened after my dear husbands very sudden death that no one can explain. My friend and I had come back from my Son's home where all our family were gathered for a BBQ it was a few months after the funeral. This was the first time I had been there without my husband. We all missed him vey much and felt he should be there too. I felt quite sad as all my family missed their Dad so much. We took pictures of our family gathering.
When my friend and I returned home we transferred the pictures on to my laptop so we could see them better. It was starting to get dark by then. I looked at them and said to my friend it's a pity my husband isn't in them too as he always was. A few minutes later we saw small sparkly lights above us on the ceiling. We couldn't believe our eyes. They were there for quite a while. My friend asked me if I had put something up on the ceiling, of course not I couldn't get up there. She said well if you haven't done anything I'm frightened. I felt frightened too. We had never seen anything like that before. I thought it was my beloved husband letting me know that he was with me. This happened several times in the same room in the evenings. But it hasn't happened again. I just don't understand how it happened or how it works but I now feel there must be something that can make it happen. You see my beloved died very suddenly without warning and he had never been ill. So we never had time to say goodbye. It is just so awful but I still feel he is with me which is comforting. I miss him so much and I always will.

rascal I am so sorry to read of your loss . I lost my daughter suddenly and was not able to say goodbye. This is traumatic for us and causes deep shock which takes time to pass. I think it also means that it can take longer for us to grieve. I hope you can be gentle with yourself and that others around you are supportive.

There are so many posts here about inexplicable experiences. Thank you for sharing.

Hello imperfect27 thank you. This happened a few years ago but I will never get over it. We just have to try to do our best. I am so sorry about your Daughter. Life can be so difficult at times. Terrible things can happen that we would never expect. Yes it was a huge shock for me and my family. I really wish he would just come back home but unfortunately that's not to be. My best wishes to you and your family.

Yes I do believe, and I have had MY proof!

It was mauraB's first post I was agreeing with not the pierced ears one.

does anyone think or believe that it makes a difference (experiencing things) if the person has been cremated or buried.

Meaning, if a person has been cremated do people experience happenings or is it only with people that have been buried.

My dh was cremated just over 3 yrs ago now and other than dreams(and the robin visiting) I have yet to experience anything else...but I will live in hope...