Matters of life and death: Non religous reasons for believing life after death

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Matters of life and death

Non religous reasons for believing in life after death

 

KEY WORDS

Near-death-experience-when someone about to die has an out of body experience.

 

1. Near-death experiences

This happens when people are clinically dead for a period of time and then come back to life. Frequently quoted in near death experiences are: feelings of peace and joy; feeling of floating above the body; seeing a bright light; entering another world;meeting dead relatives;coming to a point of no return.

2. Evidence for a spirit world

Ghosts and ouija boards appear to give evidence of the spirits or souls of dead people. The clearest evidence seems to come from mediums. Mediums claim to have the gift of communicating between the material world and the spirit world. Sometimes called pyschics,clairvoyants or spirit

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