Different people in the world believe in the death differently. The main reason for the mystery is the fact that no one has ever experienced death and had a chance to come back and explain the experience to people who have not yet experienced it. Different people have put across different arguments about the mystery surrounding death. However, one thing is clear to all people; that death means a loss of life to the body. The body remains on earth but is helpless and of no use without life. However the main disparity comes on the destination of the soul that is the life of a human being that departs from his body when he dies. Some believe that the one’s soul dies with the body while the rest believes of continued existence of the soul even after the death of the body. This report tries to unravel this mystery that death carries and about whether the soul exists or dies after a person has died.

Table of Contents

Title Page…………………………………………………….………..…………………………..1

Executive summary……………………………………………..…………………………………2

Table of contents……………………………………………………………..……………………3

Introduction…………………………………………………………………..……………………4

Death of the body…………………………………………………………………………….……4

Believers in faith and reincarnation……………………………………………………………… 4

Proof of life after death……………………………………………………………………………5

Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………..……….7

INTRODUCTION

The existences of many near death experiences and natural experience during birth that include common sense provide a convincing evidence of life after death through human to human reincarnation. Although immortality of the soul cannot be proved to be true, it is far beyond the common truth that the soul of a human being must have existed before his existence in the physical body. This pre-existence of the soul can be translated to show that even after death, it continues to exist waiting to be transferred to the next person.

DEATH OF THE BODY

BELEIVERS IN FAITH AND REINCARNATION

Despite the belief of the soul continued existence even after person’s death, the challenging part is to prove one’s soul continued possession of knowledge even after death (Irvine et. al 2008). This is one of the facts that challenge the theory by that those who are born should possess the same knowledge that the predecessors possessed. This is, however, explained by the cyclical argument in Phaedo by Plato (70c-72e) where he explains that after death, things come in the opposite states, those who are bright and knowledgeable in the present life will come back as humans but in opposite form where they will be less knowledgeable. This is to balance the state to ensure that extreme conditions of either positive or negative forms do not occur. This is also evidently supported by the fact that being alive and death are two different states. The two must happen for there to be a balance in human life. This further supports that the soul of the dead is given to those who are born.

PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH

(Gertz et. al 2011). Since there is no proof of prior knowledge of the same, it can be assumed that the knowledge was acquired by the soul from experience. Also, the fact that things that appear equal are not uniform in quality gives a rough idea about prior knowledge. The fact that one can think of them being equal shows one is recollecting. Since there was no source of this knowledge, it might be termed as general but still the problem of general knowledge comes to existence. This means that the general knowledge was acquired before one was born, and hence this provides a more tangible proof that our souls existed long before we were born. The fact that they existed before we were born gives a general perception that, if they existed before us then it is reasonable to conclude that even after our death, our souls will continue to exist.

Souls do not exist in a physical form. This is because the soul comprehends things that exist, but are not seen. Since the soul deals with greater things that our body can’t see, it means that the soul must be in the same form as these immaterial things. Since these things continue to exist even after death, the soul must also continue to exist the same way. This is directly opposite to the body that only deals with physical things. After death, the physical things cease to exist and so does the body. This shows that the body dies, but the soul will remain immortal.

There is also a possibility of a man to animal reincarnation. This only happens to the weak and impure souls. The invisible gods cannot let the wicked soul get back into the human soul and hence most likely the souls of those people will become donkeys or similar animals. This is also a proof of life after death although in a different form. The soul which is divine and has been purified will make its way to the divine when it is separated from the body by death, Plato Phaedo (69e-84b)

Lack of connection between the body and the soul is another supporting evidence of the possibility of life after death. The independence of the two simply shows that each pre-existed on its own. Although the body without a soul would be dead, it is evident that even after the soul departs from the body after death, the body continues to exist although with no life. This means that the two can exist without each other though the body would have no life, but the soul can stay on its own after departing from a dead body waiting to be assigned to the next person.

Conflicting body and soul is another proof of dissimilar source of the two. Mostly there will be a supremacy battle between the body and the soul in a living human being. Mostly the soul and the body are out of tune. The soul tries to rule over all components of the body dictating to them what to do which continues mostly all through a person’s life. The soul will inflict harsh and painful punishments to those body parts which go against it, and the body will be subjected to fear and intimidation. This is clear on instances where people try to beat their breast to cool down their hearts and strengthen the heart to endure whatever they are going through. If both soul and the body had the same origin, this conflict would not exist since it mostly hurts the body showing there is variation between the two.

Continued existence of the soul even after body death cannot be convincing on itself. The storage place of the soul after a person dies up until judgment for religion believers and carnation for passage of soul believers leaves a vacuum on both the beliefs (Phaedo 1966). This is only solved by both believes admitting that there exist a supreme being who controls the soul’s existence even after death. They believe that there exists God, who controls the souls of the dead. Religious believers believe that God holds the soul of the individuals before judgment while those who believe incarnation argue that God holds the souls of the dead before they are given to newborn people. This act as a proof on both sides that soul exists even after death though the body might be dead.

The uniform belief across all religions of life after death is also convincing of existence of life after death. Different religions believe that there is existence of life after death where souls will go to different places. Although most religions do not believe in reincarnation, they believe in the resurrection of the soul after which the souls will have to get their judgment from a single supreme being. This is considered reasonable since it provides a basis to believe in punishment of the wicked souls here on earth and also rewarding of those who lead a righteous life. If there existed no life after death, it would mean that the wicked would get away with their wrongs during the righteous lead a holy-harsh life just for the sake.

The theory of continued existence through carnation has, however, been challenged by the fact that each person soul must pass through judgment whether it was wicked or righteous. If the soul is continuously passed to the next person, it means that one’s wrongs that he or she does will not be accounted for after death. This would beat logic as to why people would struggle to lead a righteous life if they know all will be lost after their death.

CONCLUSION

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Irvine, A. D. 2008. Socrates on trial. Toronto, IN: The University of Toronto Press.

Gertz, R. P 2011.Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism. Leiden, IN: Brill.

Plato, P. 1966.Plato in Twelve Volumes. London IN: Harvard University Press

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