In the culture of Western civilizations there are three mainconcepts about what happens to people after death. This is the concept of posthumous existence in Paradise or in Hell in religions, the concept of materialists and reincarnation (the concept of the cycle of rebirth).
The most common version of whathappens to people after death, is the concept of Hell and Paradise. But this is typical only for Western religions. According to this concept, the Supreme being judges human souls after their death. Curiously, in some cultures, people are punished for some specific actions, but in others - completely for others. The result is that the majority of souls go to Hell, where they are doomed to eternal torment and incredible suffering. Only a small percentage of strict rules of the righteous have a chance to enter Paradise.
In science, Western civilization is the greatestspread the concept of materialism. What happens to people after death according to the materialists? Consciousness - as a product of the activity of the brain - 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 for most people during clinical death the consciousness is not interrupted even in the absolute absence of brain activity. Also, the flow of sensations is not interrupted.
During these studies, the purpose of which wasTo explain what happens to people after death, scientists were not interested in the nature of individual experiences (most people claimed that they saw their body from the outside, heard some voices), but the facts of these experiences at the very moment of death. The lack of electrical impulses in the brain puzzled science. When decent statistics was accumulated, the scientists came to the conclusion that the mere presence of the experiences was completely independent of whether the brain activity and electrical nerve impulses ceased during clinical death or continued. If we accept the theory that consciousness is a product of the brain, then a person will not be able to experience anything when there is no brain activity. That is, he will not be able to realize the fact that he died. However, research is contrary to theory.
Наконец, есть еще одна концепция, которая trying to answer the question: “What happens to people after death?” This is a theory about rebirths (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 transforms into other forms and states. After the death of a mother, father, son, daughter, or other loved one, many people prefer to believe this particular theory. Among the Celts, for example, there was a custom according to which a person who borrowed money wrote a testament. After death, he promised to return the money, but in a different body. And this practice was considered normal. Reincarnation is found not only among the peoples of the East. Even Pythagoras was one of the first philosophers who began to openly express ideas about the rebirth of souls. The scientist himself often said that he remembers his past incarnations.
