MENDOZA, JURIS RENIER C.

LAW 4 JUNE 5, 2019

MR. MIGUEL P. BOLO JR. ENGLISH 20 SAT 8AM-5PM

Life After Death: Is it Real or Not?

Fifteen years ago, my father passed away due to a heart attack. It was really hard to accept that he
was gone since we expected him to return and to settle finally with us – his family who was longing
for him. Our excitement abruptly covered by extreme loneliness. The laughter turned into tears. A
complete family that I really wanted remained incomplete. Yet, something made me feel like he was
with us. He was looking at us, witnessing what we do. So, I asked myself: “Is there really a life after
death?”

After death, we are permanently asleep and unconscious; we don’t know the passing of time, days,
and years as well as the changes in the living world. The Bible says “For the living know that they will
die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.”
(Ecclesiastes 9:5, NIV) It connotes not just the fact of death but also the idea that even after one’s
death, he could be totally forgotten. However, being a Roman Catholic, we were taught about the
existence of a spirit or soul attached to our body. When one dies, his soul will separate from his body.
It will wander first in the world of living before it will face judgment whether it will have eternal
happiness with God Almighty or it will have eternal suffering in the fires of hell.

Hence, in view of the foregoing, there is indeed a life after death. This does not mean that man is
immortal, but only to point out that after death, we will a second life in another form – as a spirit or
soul. In this second life, all our sufferings during the time we are still living will be gone.