Where do people go after death? To heaven or to hell, and how to explain death from a scientific point of view?

Do you know where people go when they die? Is it the underworld or the hell?

ancient legend

Where do people go after death? There have been many sayings since ancient times. People in different places have their own views, and different religions have different views.

Some people believe that after death, the soul will be separated from the human body, some will go to the sky, some will go to the underworld, and some will remain in the world. According to the research, this argument should originate from Taoism or Mohism. The Mohists advocated both love and non-attack, but at the same time they also respected ghosts and gods very much.

And Taoism was first recorded when Taoism was established, and there was a record of respecting ghosts and gods. Taoists believe that after a person dies, he will first be interrogated in the underworld, and then judge his fate after death based on his actions during his lifetime.

These sayings have been passed down from generation to generation by ancient people, and have become very mythical features. For example, people think that some fresh and refined saints will ride cranes after death and go to the West Kunlun Mountains in the sky to become immortals. Journey to the West" legend.

And some national heroes and famous generals of the dynasty will go to the top of Mount Tai in their souls after death. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is written: "The souls of the dead of the Chinese people return to the Daishan Mountains. Mount Tai, as the honor of the Five Sacred Mountains, is also located in the place where the sun rises in the east, so it is regarded as the birthplace of all things.

It is also considered to be a place that connects heaven and earth. It is recorded in the "Three Religions Origins and Streams Searching for Gods": Taishan is the ancestor of the mountains, the ancestor of the Five Mountains, the grandson of the Emperor of Heaven, and the house of the gods. It can be seen that Mount Tai's position in people's hearts. As for those who do many evils, you can guess where they will go after death without me telling you?

There are also some people who think that what happens to a person after death is too vague. Rather than talking about "death", they value the meaning of "life" more, and believe that they should do more meaningful things in a limited life. Confucianism is the representative. In modern times, "death" has once again aroused people's interest, and they want to know what "death" really feels like? To this end, an experiment was also carried out.

near-death experience

If you want to know what happens after death, you must first experience a death, and how to experience death has become the key to research. Until one day, a 19-year-old girl named Christina was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment because of a serious car accident.

When Christina was sent to the hospital, she had no heartbeat. When the doctors thought that Christina had no hope of treatment, Christina miraculously recovered her vital features, which surprised the doctors who had been rescued.

Later, in the conversation with Christina, she said that during the rescue process, her consciousness seemed to fly from her body to the ceiling, and she could vaguely see the doctor struggling to rescue and hear the doctor's dialogue.

Later, she felt that she had entered another world, which was very beautiful and very warm. Perhaps knowing that she was dying, she calmed down and felt the surrounding environment. Then she saw her deceased grandparents, she went up to try to hug grandpa, after hugging she heard grandpa say: go back. Then he woke up in the hospital bed.

This experience gave scientists a very important idea, that is, "near-death experience". That is, a near-death experience, a process that allows people to "experience death" in a sense.

So scientists began to look around for cases of near-death experiences, and obtained materials by talking to them. Some scientists even conducted "death experiments" for this purpose. By injecting drugs, the experimenters entered a state of unconsciousness. To achieve the purpose of "near death".

According to the collected data and experimental results, scientists have found that people will generate a hallucination after dying. This hallucination is related to everyone's cognition, and there is no fixed picture. To know what death really goes through, scientists need further research.

But we can perfectly explain death from a material point of view.

material cycle

Many secular people believe that the soul will be separated from the body after death. When we all know that these are unscientific claims, how can we use science to refute them? There was once a popular science article, and there was an interesting counterattack.

When you become a ghost, your feet are no longer made of matter, so you cannot walk. And your body is not made of matter, so you can't even do basic reflected light, so no one can see you. Your soul doesn't have the structure of human organs, you can't even think, you can't cry, you can't scream.

If we put aside all thoughts and look at death only from the point of view of atoms, you will find that the "immortality" that people seek is always with us.

When a person's life comes to an end, the cells in the body will gradually lose their activity, and the mitochondria in the cells will no longer produce energy. Human muscle fibers gradually become inactive, and the nervous system stops working. At this time, there will be no life activities in the human body, and some will only be left to decompose your microorganisms.

Next you'll be pushed into a cremation furnace, where your body will soon turn to dust at 900 degrees. Humans are also composed of a large number of molecules, of which carbon is the most abundant. Therefore, when a person is cremated, a large amount of carbon dioxide is produced, and of course there are also a small amount of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and other atomic compounds, which are part of your body.

These substances will participate in the earth's carbon cycle and contribute to the operation of the earth's environment. Whether the remaining ashes are scattered into the sea or buried in the soil, they will eventually be converted into nutrients for plants. Although human life is not eternal, physically you are always there.