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Questions about survival after death, rebirth, heaven, hell, resurrection, spirits, consciousness, near-death experiences, and claims about what may or may not continue after bodily death.
Life after death is possible as a concept, but possibility is not evidence. To demonstrate survival, evidence must show that personal consciousness continues after irreversible bodily death and can produce verifiable effects.
Brain injury, anaesthesia, sleep, drugs and neurological disease can alter or remove conscious experience. This provides strong evidence that human consciousness depends upon the brain, although the ultimate nature of consciousness remains disputed.
Near-death experiences can be vivid, structured and life-changing. They deserve serious investigation. The central question is whether they demonstrate consciousness outside the brain or experiences produced during a severely altered brain state.
Life after death is one of the deepest human questions. It is connected to grief, fear, justice, identity, religion and hope. A reasoned approach must treat the subject seriously without pretending to know more than the evidence allows.
Philosopher · Commonly placed in the early centuries CE; exact dates uncertain · Jain philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, karma and liberation
Umasvati, also called Umasvami, is the Jain philosopher associated with the Tattvartha Sutra, an influential systematic presentation of Jain doctrine.
Fear of death is understandable. A reasoned response is not to pretend death is easy, but to examine what is feared and how that fear affects life.
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