Its my birthday today! Just thought I'd mention it on this thread, it seems applicable somehow?
Dickie, thanks for the comeback, good to hear from you again mate!
Maybe the belly's and the rogers and the alampoi's, teddles and yabbies, dickies and spanky's and the rest in the world, could all get together in the next life somewhere.
Seeing that dogs are my most favourable animals, maybe I'll come back as a dog, a really big ugly s.o.b. to scare the living daylights out of those who have been bad to me in my previous life! and I'm not a vindictive person. There are literally thousands of stories similar to the ones mentioned in this thread, our brain, although evolved to what it is today, is in its own right a small powerhouse, capable of feats as in the case of Yuri Geller, bending spoons? Then theres levitation, in days gone by we had people seen as sorcerers, today they were seen as alchemists and scientists, who would have been burned at the stake for witchcraft, for even mentioning "afterlife", the ever present and more prominant discussions on the presence of ghosts, now there's something that has been blown out of proportion! Every "old" house the media come across, is all of a sudden haunted. The presence of ghosts would surely be a true sign of afterlife, if there is one, but there again, there is always an answer from a sceptic to dowse the ever enquiring human mind.

"there is always an answer from a sceptic to dowse the ever enquiring human mind."

Spanky, in our society you are free to believe whatever you want,
but of course there is no shortage of snakeoil salesmen, looking for
yet another sucker. They are not exactly uncommon :)

Cryogenics is clearly great business. Nobody has been brought back
with the technology, but people pay huge amounts for the service.
If the cleaning lady trips over the freezer plug, too bad eh.

I see death as another way. When old farts become irrational
and unable to change, its time for a younger generation. You've
been lucky, experiencing 75-90 years, enjoy it, live it, accept
it. Then let others have a go too, only so many can fit on this
planet on one time. We do actually owe other species a moral
obligation for some space on planet earth, not just wall to wall
humans.

Well happy birthday Spanky.

We'll have a tinny or 2 in your honour.

1. Melbourne is a town which really makes you wonder if there is a hereafter

2. Maybe there's no hell. Maybe hell's just having to listen to Grandpa and Grandma breathe through their noses while they eat their sandwiches.

3. You know you're close to death when the candles cost more than the cake.

4. Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative

5. For 3 days after death, the hair and fingernails continue to grow but the phone calls taper off

6. "I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter over a technicality." (Bob Hope)

Every day above the ground is a good one.

I believe we do have telepathic powers. I have often been thinking something good about a stranger, how they look nice or that I'm attracted to them and they will suddenly look at me and smile even though I havent smiled first. Everybody has had bad vibes about strangers too and I believe this is because we are picking up on the nasty thoughts or intentions in their minds by some sort of transference or telepathy.

There are instances where this mind connection happens over distance too especially with close friends or relatives.

It seems to be something random or hard to measure because it cant always be done on command as in tests and such but it definitely happens. The fact that something unexplained like this happens may indicate forces at work that we do not yet understand and may somehow be connected to afterlife transference by something that exists within the brain or it may simply be that the brain is more powerful than we realise.

As yet our children and their children are our only KNOWN hope of immortality here on earth.

Some people would think this day a lucky one, having a birthday on 07/07/007 and all, it was the same as in 07/07/1977, still no pot of gold! It is the right way of thinking, by moving on while others take your place, the cryogenic story I totally believe that they have not, as yet, brought anybody back from cryo-state and the possibility of the cleaning lady tripping over the cord put a lid on any designs I had about going into cryogenic state! I could just imagine.."we have found a cure for watsisname,...errr..why's the plug on the floor?"
I think I will opt for the worms bit.
(Thanks dickie!)

Belly, I can tell you that I have also felt those wierd, eerie kind of feelings, inexplicable as if something or someone is in your "space" or to close for comfort. Some would call it paranoia, I call it sixth sense, when your body tenses for no apparent reason as if its telling you there is something there. Yep, been there, done that, scared the living daylights out of me..next please!
Phenomina, the unsure, uncanny, the body is not often wrong, if some people learned to take more note of these natural feelings, a lot of lives could have been saved, just by trusting bodily instincts.