Thoughts About The Afterlife
What is actually on the other side?
My husband and I have a rather morbid running joke. We often ask each other if we are wearing good “ghost clothes”. Ghost clothes, of course, being the clothes that one wears when one dies and would wear forever as a ghost, haunting the living.
I don’t remember where we got that idea, online somewhere, probably, but it’s turned into one of our “things’. We like it. It suits us.
The subject of ghosts, and the afterlife in general, is one that people have many different ideas about due to their religion, lack thereof, paranormal experiences, or just about any other reasoning. The subject of ghosts is for another day.
So, what is the answer? What does happen to us when we die? That’s a topic that has boggled humankind since the very beginning, whenever that was.
The simple answer? None of us truly know, although plenty of people think they do. There are those Christians who believe that we go to Heaven if we are “saved” and to Hell if we are not, regardless of what we did in life. What entails being saved and how exactly that happens is something that no one can quite agree upon, but the more evangelical, the stricter the rules. Catholics have a whole other complicated set of rules that allow entry to Heaven. Other Christians take a more agnostic approach to…
