Life after death?

[Pretty Boy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11144442/First-hint-of-life-after-death-in-biggest-ever-scientific-study.html

Interesting read.

[Hibrandenburg]

Heard this on the World Service too today. All it really says to me is that maybe it just takes the brain a bit longer to expire than previously thought.

[steakbake]

I believe in some kind of afterlife and to be honest always have. I'm not sure how you'd set about proving it scientifically and that's what makes the difference between believing and knowing.

This is interesting though but as PB says, does it just suggest the brain lives longer than first thought?

[NAE NOOKIE]

It is quite intriguing that there are a number of people, not just in this study, who have been able to describe exactly what happened to them in A & E or the operating theatre even though .... A) They were technically dead and ... B) They were lying in such a position that they couldn't possibly have seen the movements or actions of staff unless they were as many have said floating above the scene in an 'out of body' type manner.

[PeeJay]

It is quite intriguing that there are a number of people, not just in this study, who have been able to describe exactly what happened to them in A & E or the operating theatre even though .... A) They were technically dead and ... B) They were lying in such a position that they couldn't possibly have seen the movements or actions of staff unless they were as many have said floating above the scene in an 'out of body' type manner.

A hint of the after life, in the Telegraph: how likely is that then? They were hallucinating perhaps from lack of oxygen? - I'm sure I read somewhere that in a similar previous study they attached paintings or notes to the ceiling, but strangely enough all the people who supposedly floated above the OP room/bed and could aparently describe everything happening "down below" in such lucid detail couldn't actually recall seeing any such real objects on or near the ceiling (would have been a sign that maybe there is something in all this flying around lark) - as to describing what happens in an operating theatre - how much imagination does that really take, and the fact there is an odd beep to be heard, well, what a surprise ... haven't we all been here before? :greengrin

[snooky]

Life after death is impossible - even for RFC.
Well it's life Jim, but not as we know it. :greengrin

[Stranraer]

I don't believe in life after death, God or any other superstitions but this is a really interesting article. Especially considering I've been reading Roscommon South-leitrim byelection news all day :greengrin

[judas]

I do believe strongly in death after life.

[Scottie]

Got to be something else after this.

On a side note can't wait to see a great Hibernian team upstairs that include the Famous Five playing football the way it should be played.

[Allant1981]

My other half believes in life after death and stuff like that, im one of these people who needs to see something to believe it and no one can ever prove that life after death exists so will never believe it, for me once you die thats it im afraid

[over the line]

We do live on after death, in the form of calories for worms and insects, or as compost for raised beds etc. Not sure that is what you meant though?

Personally I'm totally comfortable with that situation, I'm happy to provide the worms with an easy meal. As it says in that brilliant wildlife documentary, The Lion King, its the circle of life (or summut like that?). :)

[Big Frank]

Im afraid you die. You dont go anywhere. You cease to exist. There are no ghosts or spirits or angels (Poor Metatron:greengrin). There is no heaven and no hell.

There are, and has been for thousands and thousands of year, men with beards.

The probability of God existing is minute.

There is no proof, not a shred that we go somewhere after we die.

Those who think they go somewhere after death are deluded imho :agree:

There was though, dinosaurs.


oh aye, blind faith :faf:

[One Day Soon]

Im afraid you die. You dont go anywhere. You cease to exist. There are no ghosts or spirits or angels (Poor Metatron:greengrin). There is no heaven and no hell.

There are, and has been for thousands and thousands of year, men with beards.

The probability of God existing is minute.

There is no proof, not a shred that we go somewhere after we die.

Those who think they go somewhere after death are deluded imho :agree:

There was though, dinosaurs.


oh aye, blind faith :faf:


You've been then?

[Big Frank]

You've been then?

How can you be asking me if I've been? Been where?


I know people die and cease to exist.

I have seen this and touched dead members of my family. So thats fairly straight forward and factual.

[Geo_1875]

You've been then?

Frank is deid. Nobodies got round to telling him yet.

[TrinityHibs]

Bill Bryson's book A Short History of Almost Everything convinced me that nothing is impossible as we exist. Its a long, long, long term infinity argument but we could come back in some (any) form. This, very ropey, theory is backed up by Stephen King's Dark Tower series (I am on book 6 of 7 now) where the stories move between parallel worlds each of which are slightly different. So I am content at some point in the future (I accept it might be some time) I will come back to see us lift the Scottish Cup. This thought process makes Saturdays more acceptable.

[One Day Soon]

Frank is deid. Nobodies got round to telling him yet.

You mean he sees dead people....

[Big Frank]

Frank is deid. Nobodies got round to telling him yet.

oi! who said that. :confused:


...ofcourse you are spot on. I died with Hibernian (10mins after the league cup final in 2007)

[snooky]

We do live on after death, in the form of calories for worms and insects, or as compost for raised beds etc. Not sure that is what you meant though?

Personally I'm totally comfortable with that situation, I'm happy to provide the worms with an easy meal. As it says in that brilliant wildlife documentary, The Lion King, its the circle of life (or summut like that?). :)

Well when I go, I hope them worms like barbequed meat well done.