Can We Survive Death?

What am I, how did I get here and where am I going? The most important question is “what am I?”. If I am just a combination of my physical and mental wheels turning, then how can I expect to survive? If I subscribe to the idea of the soul, what is it? Is it matter or energy? Do I need faith to guide me in my search for understanding life and death or can I use my own feelings and reasoning?

Does a soul enter my body at birth or during gestation or is it something that grows? Is it made by my undergoing certain kinds of experiences as is stated in Monty Python’s Meaning Of Life? And am I so desperate that I turn to some movie for answers?

Some people feel that to know what happens after death I must observe the way nature works. If I can understand the recurring patterns in life, then maybe I can understand what death is and how it affects me.

Here, in a nutshell is what science can tell us about the survival of consciousness after death:

“If consciousness is energy, then I suppose you don’t need proof that it survives death, because proof already exists: the First Law of Thermodynamics – energy is neither created or destroyed. Though it’s hard to take much comfort from this. Who wants to spend eternity as a blip, a gnat’s fart, of disordered energy, with no brain at your disposal to help you remember or imagine or solve the Sunday crossword? What would it be like? Would there even be a be? Nahum uses the analogy of the computer: perhaps you’d be the operating system, stripped of its programs and interfaces. Heaven as the back of the closet where the broken-down Dells and Compaqs go.

If we are to eventually have our answer, our proof, it will no doubt come to us courtesy of quantum theory, or whatever takes its place. Few of us will understand it well enough to take much comfort, however, if indeed comfort is what it offers. I recommend that you enjoy life without worrying about the “after” bit, and keep in mind that one day altogether too soon, bad luck or genetics will hand you the answer.”
newscientist.com

One of the areas of life experience that is supposed to help us understand what death is about is the Near Death Experience. Here is a video that will give you some insight into that subject.