Three main versions of what happens to people after death

In the culture of Western civilizations, there are three basic concepts about what happens to people after death. This is the concept of posthumous existence in Paradise or Hell in religions, the concept of materialists and reincarnation (the concept of the cycle of rebirths).

The most common version of what happens to people after death is the concept of Hell and Paradise. But this is characteristic only of Western religions. According to this concept, the Supreme Being judges human souls after their death. Interestingly, in some cultures, people are punished for certain actions, but in others they are completely for others. In the end, it turns out that most souls go to hell, where they are doomed to eternal torment and incredible suffering. Only a small percentage of those observing the strict rules of the righteous have a chance to enter Paradise.

In the science of Western civilization, the concept of materialism was most widely spread. What happens to people after death in the opinion of the materialists? Consciousness - as a product of brain activity - completely ceases its activity after the death of the brain itself. On the other hand, a lot of different studies, which were conducted mainly in American and English clinics, show that in the majority of people during a clinical death consciousness is not interrupted even with absolute absence of brain activity. Also, the flow of sensations is not interrupted.

During these studies, whose purpose was to explain what happens to people after death, scientists were interested not in the nature of individual experiences (most people claimed to have seen their body from outside, heard some voices), and the very facts of these experiences were in fact The moment of death. The absence of electrical impulses of the brain put science at a dead end. When decent statistics were accumulated, the scientists came to the conclusion that the very existence of experiences does not at all depend on whether brain activity and electrical nerve impulses are stopped during a clinical death or whether they continue. If we accept the theory that consciousness is a product of the brain, then a person will not be able to experience anything in the absence of brain activity. That is, he is not able to realize the fact that he died. However, studies contradict the theory.

Finally, there is another concept that tries to answer the question: "What happens to people after death?" This is the theory of rebirth (about reincarnation). According to this view, our consciousness does not disappear after the death of the physical body. It, like everything that surrounds us, simply passes into other forms and states. After the death of a mother, father, son, daughter or other close person, many people prefer to believe this theory. In the case of the Celts, for example, there was a custom in which a person who borrowed money wrote a will. After his death, he promised to return this money, but in a different body. And this practice was considered normal. Reincarnation is found not only among the peoples of the East. Still Pythagoras became one of the first philosophers who openly expressed ideas about the rebirth of souls. The scholar himself often said that he remembers his past incarnations.