Maybe... just maybe... loving spirits find the loving spirits that have gone before....

Would be so good.

If there is an afterlife I would like to be a pampered dog instead next time please x

Oh reincarnation is something else altogether Biddysue! Don't get us starts on that!

started! -phone has a life of its own

I think you can "come back down" for another life in order to experience and learn different aspects of a material life.

Fascinating, reincarnation is, I think. There has been some proof of its validity.

All these interesting ideas that have developed around the world! The question of what next isn't new.

Man,s eternal search for meaning and comfort, I suppose.

That's just how I feel, Jane10. When my dad knew he only had days to live he said that at least he was about to find out the answer to the great mystery. No rush for me either though {fingers crossed emoticon].

Whoops, I'd missed a whole page! I was referring to Jane's post about it being the last great adventure.

The house we live in is quite old, built at the beginning of the last century. We've lived in it for many years and have had a succession of neighbours, mainly with young children. On two separate occasions over the years, different children living in the house have seen an old lady sitting in the corner of their bedroom.
I know this isn't a thread about ghosts and apparitions, but thought I'd just pop it in anyway!
I keep an open mind.

Young children see things/people that we (mostly) don't. I remember the day after her Daddy was killed in an accident my niece then aged just 2 was sitting in the back of my car parked as we waited to collect someone. She began to smile and chatter away at someone outside the window. There was no one there. When I asked her who she was looking at and talking to she said 'my Daddy'. I really hope it was him.

I hope so too, Jane10.

Same thing with a friend's GD who was two, nearly three when friend's DS died. The GD told her mother not to shut the curtains because her daddy waved to her before she went to sleep.

A friend of my DD's had been sitting with a friend of hers every afternoon because her friend's husband had only died at home a few days before unexpectedly. A man only in his thirties, he had come home from work, said he felt unwell and collapsed and died. The young woman who had a baby had no family support, hence DD's friend was there every day. DD's friend heard the front door click this afternoon, she looked up and saw a grainy figure heading from the front door along the passage past the sitting room door. DD's friend hadn't believed in anything until that moment. The newly widowed young woman found it comforting to think her husband was still around. She said it was the time he came home from work and the way he walked to the kitchen every afternoon.

Wow Peaseblossom what a report!!! Its because of things like that I believe there is an afterlife. My mother & her sister heard a ghost in an ancient house in Branscombe, Devon called Margells & now a Landmark Trust house. Mum is a very strong, no-nonsense type of person too, if she says she heard it, she heard it!

And what this article does not mention, like so many others, is that NOT all NDEs are beautiful and wonderful, leaving the people who experience them horrified and sometimes terrified of death.

www.google.co.uk/?ion=1&espv=2#q=bad%20near%20death%20experiences

Goodness, I'm certainly not going to click on that link! Thanks for the warning, librarylady...

Ooh I am!

Wish I hadn't now.

I did and there's some very interesting bits on it if you scroll down.

Its would be a bit packed up there by now.

What a nice thought though.

My mother in law's father was a spiritualist preacher.
For the past three years she has seen various family members coming for her, but she's still here.
Perhaps that's why she's got dementia.

I had an experience when I was having an operation,apparently I had a cardiac arrest during surgery. I remember going through a dark tunnel lined with people towards a bright light I felt totally at peace and eager to go to the light but just as I got there I experienced a blinding pain and I felt myself being dragged back, waking up in the recovery room.
Yes I believe and after losing my son tragically in February I pray that we will be together again.

Im so sorry for your loss Nell.

Sorry about that, nell. I can see why you believe in the afterlife.