Life after death
If there’s one certainty in life it’s that at some point it will end, perhaps today as a result of an accident, perhaps years from now from a lingering illness, or simply from the fact that our bodies wear out. In spite of our status in life or the precautions we may take, this is our lot as living organisms; it is the human story. Logically it seems futile to wonder about ourselves before our birth or at least before our conception. By the same token, the same should hold after we draw our last breath.
Yet a great many people, some three-quarters of Americans, believe in some form of life after death. Religions teach this. An equally large number of people believe in God. Beliefs are ideas and concepts that we want to be true, but haven’t been proved and thus are not facts. Science, our final arbiter as to what constitutes a fact, what is real, cannot investigate and thus prove the existence of God. But science can and for 140 years has been investigating the possible existence of life after death.
As fundamental as the possibility of an afterlife is to our understanding of what it means to be human, this research is not well known or is simply disregarded or denied on the assumption that it has not yielded good evidence for or against. It is my contention that the body of a vast number of studies, taken as a whole, does substantiate the reality of life after death. It is a fact, not a belief.
This website and blog sets out the evidence for your consideration.