Arts and Social Sciences Journal

Life, Death, and What is between Them? A Sneaky Look at the Other Bank

Abstract

George Makhoul Nader

When asked about the conclusion they reached, the lesson they learned, or the philosophy they created, based on their experience with death, regarding the existence or non-existence of another life after death, their responses varied according to their cultural and religious (or non-religious) backgrounds. Some of them denied the existence of another life, and considered that the person who dies... dies... but he remains alive in the memory of his beloved ones or in the memory of the generations if he has achieved in his life what makes him immortal. In other words, the other life, in the view of those, is a "thought" rather than a "being." Others were nihilistic, melancholic, and considered that death is equivalent to total absence or vanishing. The larger proportion, as expected, considered that other life is a fact and a reality, and that those who leave the earthly life move to live in peace and tranquility with their predecessors. But again, nobody ever mentioned sensual details in any aspect of the other life as they see it.