In the world today, people are more aware of the things that happened in the early days that the people of the past did. The life after death issues were however well known to them compared to people who existed in the past. The topic is not taught in schools and many people choose to ignore it by not mentioning it.
True death takes place when the connection between the body and the soul is severed and not when the physical body stops functioning. It happens the day after a person dies and highly dependent on how quickly they have accepted their fate. The spirit of the deceased stays close to where he/she lived and tries to lead the life that they were used to.
A spiritual guide especially for someone who was close to the deceased leads one to the river known as Styx that is believed to divide the mortal world with the immortal one where people are believed to go after dying. According to the religious background of that person, the guide can be a Christian priest, a Buddhist monk or an angel. Once that river is crossed, there really is no coming back to the earth and how thing goes is based on the various beliefs of different people.
Souls of dead people are usually anxious to leave the world and go to the spiritual place and this causes them to stay for their funeral. People pass through a dark tunnel that leads to a light at the end that comes from heaven. Exorcism can be done for those spirits that have totally refused to leave earth causing disturbance to people.
For Christians, the Bible says very little about what happens to the soul between the last day when Christ comes back and after death. The bible only speaks on the resurrection on that last day and what happens later on. Christians also believe that at death, the soul does not leave the body; but both the body and the soul sleep until the day of Christ return.
Death is a depressing fact of life that people have learn to accept with scientists even gathering information and fact that tries to explain this. Part of these fact is the ability of a deceased brain to show signs of consciousness even when the body is dead and cannot function.
Some people have the chance to know when their deaths will take place when they are diagnosed with terminal diseases in the early stages; this allows them to say their goodbyes and set their things in order. Most people do not get this chance. It allows one to be acceptable of the situation and be peaceful about it.
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