The Afterlife

Could knowledge about what happens after we die be common knowledge?

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost. Ecclesiastes 9:5 CJB

For as far back as we can find, people have had ceremonies for burying the dad and some kind of belief in a hereafter. Every culture seems to understand that there has to be more to our existence than what we experience here on Earth. Why do you think that is? I think it's common knowledge; life has meaning and is merely a chapter in our ultimate destination!

Beliefs

Here are a few different views of the afterlife, from around the world and throughout time

• Egyptians mumified bodies and buried people with their possessions/treasures in belief that it would serve them in the afterlife.
• Nirvana - Buddhism and Hinduism
• Valhalla - Norse Mythology
• Sheol - Judaism / Christianity
• Heaven/Hell - Christianity
• Purgatory - Catholicism
• Hades - Greek Mythology

References

1. "Afterlife Religion". Encyclopedia Britannica; visited August 2021
2. "How the Major Religions View the Afterlife". Encyclopedia; visited August 2021
3. "Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt". Museum of Art and Archaeology; visited August 2021