Let's write about the possibility of life after death....

Yes, there really is a blog about the subject of life after death....(*a personal story via my husband is this blog's postscript).

I suppose the question is, “What is hard proof?” 

A "Let's Write" echo published in the Quora* blog:

Personally, writes Christopher Pearsall, "I already know the answer".

When I was 12 years old I drowned. My mother saved me but not before quite a bit of work and more minutes than I care to count. During those minutes I saw everything my mother was doing to resuscitate me. I saw the breathing. I saw the chest compressions. I saw the people standing around. I heard what they were saying. I even remember trying to speak to my mother saying that I was okay and felt fine even though I saw my body lifeless on the sand. I can remember everything and the whole event in vivid detail.

Scientists theorize that when we die our brain still has electric energy, which causes us to remember or possibly hear certain things when we are resuscitated. This is the closest I have found to any sort of possible explanation. However, the explanation fails in my case. I SAW everything from an aerial view in vivid detail. While I might somehow have heard things through electrical impulses or some semi-conscious level, there is no way I could have seen things and then described them from floating a good 10 to 12 feet above my body and the circle of people surrounding me with such precision.

I was out of my body. I was my spirit but yet wholly me without physical form. I was peaceful as if in another dimension. No one could hear me. No one could see me as I verbalized in some manner that I “felt fine” despite what I was seeing because my mother was so panicked and upset. I then found myself suddenly literally pulled back into my body.

Is this hard proof? To me it is. I am as grounded as it gets when it comes to practical explanations for things but this is not something in all of my life that could be explained away by science or anyone.

I don’t have to believe in God or a supreme being; nor do you. But as a lawyer (Mr. Pearsall is a Rhode Island Family lawyer), who now thinks critically and tries to explain everything possible and find evidence of it, I still have no doubt that I not only touched, but was literally “in”, some level of what exists beyond this life.

Our body may degrade but I can assure anyone who wants to know: There is some sort of life… after death.

*Although my husband did not experience a "life after death" event, he did touch it, metaphorically.  When he was about 10 years old, he was with a group of kids who were swimming during the summer at a local unsupervised site in Maine. As kids tend to do, there was a lot of competition for the group about who could swim fastest from the shore out to a floating dock. During the flurry caused by the splashing water, he began to loose his energy and was unable to reach out to touch the safety of the floating dock. Instead, he found himself flailing and unable to stay afloat. When he looked up in panic to see if there was anyone to help him, he saw a lovely young woman on the dock who reached out exclusively to him and she said, "Just take my hand."  Somehow, he was able to touch her hand and she brought him to safety. After the incident, he was unable to locate the woman who touched him and saved him from near death. His was not a "life after death" experience, but he was never able to overcome the sense of gratitude he felt when he was touched by someone who he never knew and never saw again. In fact, my husband believes he saw and touched his Guardian Angel.

*Quora: A social question-and-answer website based in Mountain View, California, United States, and founded on June 25, 2009. The website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that have been submitted by other users. (AKA....a blog.)