Life After Death
As the irritating, yet monotonous beeps of the life-monitor in the
emergency room began to slowly die away, George struggled to hang on. It's not
my time yet, he thought. Please, give me just one more day… The beeps soon
became increasingly far in between, while the doctors frantically bustled on in
a futile attempt to stabilize the dying man like a bunch of panicking bees
trying to save their doomed hive from a pouring rain. The world turned hazy,
then completely dark, as George felt himself slowly floating into the darkness.
He flew and flew without end. Then there was the light - that infamous "light
at the end of the tunnel." (Randles 2) It gave out a strange, comforting ...
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wanted to stay right
here, basking in the light of love. But he felt something pull him back. Wait,
not yet, he thought. It's not my time yet... The next moment, George was
somehow reunited with his physical body, lying on that uncomfortable hospital
bed, amidst the doctors sighing in relief, surrounded no longer by that soft
glow, but again by that rhythmic beep, beep, beep…
Is there a parallel between George's account of a near-death experience
(NDE), and what really happens when we ourselves die? Is there indeed a part of
us that conquers death and continues to live a different kind of existence where
it has new powers and undergoes unfamiliar experiences? Is there really a
heaven, or numerous heavens, full of blissful joys awaiting some of us and a
hell, or countless hells, full of different punishments for others? Or is
physical death, in fact, the end of life as we know it? Such questions about
death and dying has intrigued humanity since the dawn of time. One area ...
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the
world above, and the aged boatman Charon ferried the souls of the dead across
these waters. Somewhere in the darkness of the underworld Hades' palace was
located. It was represented as a many-gated, dark and gloomy place, thronged
with guests, and set in the midst of shadowy fields and an apparition-haunted
landscape.
To Greeks and Romans, life after death was not a pleasant thing. Hades,
a dark and gloomy place, was originally the apparent destination for all - the
good and the bad. Perhaps with the unintended influence of the incipient
contemporary Christianity, Hades was mollified into a much more organized place,
giving rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked. One ...
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