Endless fascination with the possibility of the "afterlife" ;

jings "Angel with attitiude* you may well be (and a feisty one at that) but I thought your post to Balini "Perhaps our spirits find those of the ones that we miss so much" was a truly nice thought and a lovely response.

I have a few nurse friends and they all have experiences of a light leaving a person just before they passed away.

When my mum died my OH and I were standing in the front room feeling dazed and bewildered when the TV suddenly turned on.

Mum had been only been gone for a few hours.

My OH who was a skeptic was shocked because there was no way the TV could have turned on by itself. He tried to blame to dog who was sitting next to the control box on the settee but the TV could only come on by pressing the switch on the side of the TV.

I think it may have been mum on her journey to the afterlife. I hope it was.

My MIL's watch stopped at the time of her death but that could have been because she was too ill to wind it up. Life and death are full of coincidences.

I most definetly believe in the Afterlife, I have had my proof, which will take too long to tell the story why I am convinced. I have no fear of death! Also I believe in Reincarnation which is another fascinating topic.

n sh sh

These clocks have superior knowledge............. The one in our bedroom always knows when its battery has run out - it stops.

My 200year old clock (long case) which has been in my family since 1917, stopped on the day my husband's terminal cancer was diagnosed.
I'm not superstitious, but it was odd.

I was being serious (about the clock). I thought it might have been one of those you had to wind up every day.

Yes Balini you made a good point. I don't know the answer, but NotTooOld is correct that if you and your wife found love then that is more, much more, than some people have. Hold on to your memories until you find your wife again.

Tick tock

Jingl, are you winding us up?
The song......My Grandfathers Clock? just asking!

Never to go again?

Balini - what a very sad post. You must be missing your wife very much. You write that if there is no afterlife 'my whole existence will have been pointless' - but as it seems you have had a very happy marriage, that cannot be so? If you and your wife were happy, as seems to be the case, you probably brought happiness to others as well as to each other, so your existence has certainly not been pointless. Take heart!

Ninety years it had stood there. Then stopped. Short.

Ana

I don't honestly think it matters if we believe/ don't believe in an afterlife, we will find out soon enough/ or will we? I think we should probably be open minded to the possibility of it though, because we don't know what the heck it's all about, living on a spinning orb in space. Who knows?Nobody should feel that it's all been pointless though, we don't know that as a fact, and we may well be reunited with anyone we have ever loved.

The smell of cigarette smoke is one of those unexplainable experiences that might convince me...it happens here now and then without any logical explanation - no smokers in the house, windows closed and the house situated away from passers-by. If a proper explanation cropped up I'd be OK but until then I'm tempted to think my dad and/or my son (both smokers) are letting me know they aren't so far away...maybe...

A Dyland Thomas fan rosesarered ? I can't see the connection between the topic on this thread where some choose to share very private experiences and Under Milkwood unless you are comparing the posts with a writers imagination , if so how unkind

Dawn??? Fforeggub!

Technically, I should not have delivered that message, as I am still alive.

Pops head in door, ' this is MI 5 right?' No? Wrong thread, oops.But as I'm here..... Pssst, hands over secret cryptic message, and vanishes in a puff of smoke.Message reads 'meet at dawn, Llareggub'

Perhaps because he hadn't wound it up?

(not being facetious, just a possibilty that came to mind...)

My grandad's clock stopped the day he died.

I can't remember whether it was the first or second Christmas day after my father died. I was washing up and suddenly I was aware of a strong smell of cigars. I really disliked the smell growing up, my father has been the only person I've known who smoked them.
Also the day my brother in law died my husbands watch stopped around 10am. We don't know what time he died that day as he was alone. I've heard of this happening to other people.
Definately unexplained events which perhaps show that we don't know everything ...... yet

(trying) to get back to the original post...

IMO any conversation to do with afterlife causes controversy, with those who believe there must be 'something more than all this'...those who believe they have proof of something more than all this, and those who believe that when we die - that's it.

Someone who witnesses something 'unexplainable' may seek to find a logical/scientific explanation for the occurrence, and if there is one (which there mostly is) will rest assured. However, this isn't always the case, and for many folk things happen for which, after extensive scientific research, no reasonable explanation can be found. Luckily the majority of us go through life with no spooky incidences at all (well...not that we know of.

To me there seems to be two areas of exploration. Firstly knowledge gained by the use of ouija boards, seances, etc, and secondly physical spirit/haunting/ghost experiences that can happen whether you believe 'in all that stuff', or not. I believe the difference between these two areas is firstly the use of paraphernalia has come about through our natural curiosity to gain knowledge of everything that goes on around us - with a need to have proof, whereas the other spiritual/haunting area is beyond our knowledge, and quite often cannot, by means of logic, or science, be explained, which is extremely threatening to us.

Right....fire away.