Or maybe this is just wishful thinking. Having lost my husband, the love of my life, to complications of a bone marrow transplant only 32 days ago, I would like to believe we get to live our lives over. It took us a lifetime to find each other (he was only 48 and died the day before our first wedding anniversary), we always wished we had met 20 years earlier, had children of our own, had lived a longer life together. I'd like to believe we'll have the opportunity do that in the next life.

I dont believe any one has returned to tell us, at least no one in whom we all can agree did in fact , so the truth be told, its all speculation, sooner or later we will each find the answer to this question. In the meen time , be patient

nobody knows what will happen after death . according to mythology , god decides what to do with our soul whether to send him in heaven for his good works or to send it in hell for his bad omens acc. to your activities in your life.

Edgar, I am going to adress a few things you ave posted first. Those being, Reincarnation, Repition Of Life, De-ja-vu, Judgement Day and how God plays into these things. First, Reincarnation. Reincarnation is (in the belifes I have studied) The act of being reborn, either into a new form (I.E. Bug-->Human or Human-->Bug). Although some forms of belife involving Reincarnation believe you are reborn into a new 'Social Status' (I.E. You were dirt poor but lived a good life-->Born again a Prince and visa-versa). Now the belife of Reincarnation is held within the Boundries of Christain or Catholic Belifes, but not in the sense that you are Reborn on Earth. In these believes (as Im sure you already know, just restateing for those that don't) You are reborn either into Heaven (Golden Streets every dream you ever had will come true ect, ect, ect), or you will be cast to Hell (You are tortured, mauled, ripped to bits, ect, ect, ect) for all of eturnity. These are your places you will call home forever unless you believe in Purgatory, in which case you are a lost soul for eternity (What fun!). Now for the repitition of life. If you die and you are destend to relive the same time period over and over and over again. Then how would our history have come to be the past. By this I mean how is it that we have had steps of evolution sence the birth of 'Mankind'. Now given you theory may be possible, but at somepoint someones life would over lap anothers. Which may by all accounts tie into the feeling of 'De-ja-vu. Although I don't find repition of life practical or methodical, it very well may be that easy in which case I will have to spend a little more time on the thought. As far as 'De-ja-vu' gose I still have to stick with the small group of thoght circling that 'De-ja-vu' is nothing more than precognition by this I mean that you are exprienceing a height in you metal powers at that given point in time which transpires so fast and so strongly that you feel as though you are reliving the event. (It would be like knowing what you best frined is going to say and saying it for them. You can't read their mind, but the mental connection there is so strong that you 'feel' what they will say and say it for them or at the same time.). Now after all this being said, if you are a firm believer in God. Then your truths on Death are already very apperant to you. Yet if you are as I am and find one to many holes, one to many loops in what orginized religion feels then you stand where I do, lost and confused. Although over time I have gripped and pulled a few things from here and there and this is what I have come up with. Everyone seeks closure with the dead, and closure on what will happen to them when you do die. Death is the one thing no one will be able to lock into stone. It is for this that people fear, It is a natural state of any person to fear what they do not know. Now given that it would only seem right as to why everyone turn to religion for answers. They all claim to have the answers, as well as the reasurence that all you need to do are these things (I.E Fallow the Bible) and you will rest for eternity peacefully in a world where your every wish can come true. Dose this seem resonable? Not really no, but it dose offer comfort to those that need it. Which by all means is a good thing. Yet this dose leave controversy in alot of areas, because 'nothing can be proven, or set into stone'. I believe that what happens to you after you die is not exactly what every one says. I believe your heaven or hell is what you make it to be. By this I mean, if you die happily with a life you feel you completed and lived to the best you could. Then in the final hours you will live happily in a 'heaven' if you will. How ever if you pass with guilt or regret then your final hours will be a 'Hell'. Now I say final hours because I believe once you die, there is no eternal 'Heaven' or eternal 'Hell'. I believe that once you truely die (I.E. Brain Dead) "Thou shalt lie down with patriarchs of the infant world-with kings, The powerful of the earth-the wise, the good Fair forms, and hoarys seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher." (Quote taken from Thanatopsis by Willam Cullen Bryant) If you have not read the above poem I suggest you do it is a very powerful piece. This quote is basically saying that once you die you return to the Earth. You 'lie with kings'. To me Heaven and Hell is jus the delirium you face befor you soul rejoins with the earth, a final gift if you will (Those that die peacefully and happily with a smile). Though it can be a curse (Those that die in a furious rage screaming and taughnting of demons and pain). When all is said and done no answers no matter how sound or how believeable will be able to answer your question till you expirence it. That is the cold hard truth of it all. You are born with no other intention then to die. That to is a sad truth. To those that embrace faith, my best to you, you have found your comfort. To those of you who can't seem to find answers don't give up on it just because 'it makes you head hurt' (Taken from Edgar) the answers you seek are out there. Weather they conform to a belife already in exsistance or not, dosen't matter. As long as when the time comes for your final breath you know in your head, your heart, your soul, what is going to happen to you and you have no regrets, you will be fine. As well as more than cappible of accepting death.

this world will no longer exist.

It's all in the book of Revelation, hon. From the beginning to the end. But I warn you, 99% of it is Metaphoric. I guarentee that the rapture will happen! And did you know that no one is in heaven right now. Didn't know that, huh? Not yet, everyone is resting until Jesus comes back (The Rapture) Gods not going to give you something that's used. He wants to give us something that is totally new, brand spanking new! So hope that filled the big void.

I feel the Earth is a prison colony for all manner of souls and entities. Somewhere, sometime we have all committed a heinous crime against the fabric of the cosmos and the grand design, The Creator felt that for us to attone for those trangressions, we are to live a menial and senseless life of mortality, and possess the innate fear of dying, All of our moments on Earth are spent trying to learn from our sins and mistakes. If for some reason we do not obtain forgiveness, we are destined to live as many lives as it takes, to be able to be granted, for lack of a better term, parole. Heaven and Hell are not a factor. I think we are all heavenly and cosmic beings. There is just too much out there to not be allowed to explore the universe. When your sentence has been deemed served, and forgiven, the Creator will allow us to return to the universe, and live to enjoy all that has been provided, to enjoy exponentially for an eternity. All with the hopes and endeavors to not be in prison again. To rehabilitate and not be institutionalized

Did you ever wonder what would have happened it you had made some different choices during this life? Well, since this existance we are now experienceing is greatly influenced by its beginning,your childhood, if there is any form of existance after death it will be in our current life's past.This is why there are instances of premonition in childhood that do not occur in adulthood. Remember that dream that came true just like you dreamed it? That's because in the end of your last life you went back to some point in your childhood you felt was pivitol in your life or mabey to the very beginning.Every choice you have made in your life has influenced its direction and when we go back to live it over again we will make different choices which are controlled by our subconcious mind where the records are kept. Other than that I don't think anything happens.I belive that if we do not return to the past in our life then death is like the missing time you experience during surgery. You simply don't exist at all.