text: Anything is possible, and there is much we don't understand about human consciousness.\n\nWe have a "physical body" that operates on a real mechanical level, but we've never quite figured out where consciousness lives. Is it totally in the physical component of the brain, or is there a "soul" aspect that continues to live separate from the body?\n\nIf the person is entirely physical, what does that say about our value? Is there anything enduring about us as human beings, or does death mean the end? If death is the end, does anything we do have meaning or value? \n\n(Eventually everything dies, thus nothing will last -- so what's the point in the long run of doing evil or good? It's a good question.)\n\nAnyway, we simply do not have the means to determine whether life exists after death, from a science standpoint. We have a few stories of "people who came back," and we have supposed "ghost sightings," but the evidence doesn't really give us much to go on. Much of our belief in life after death comes through faith, not science.\n\nI would say, though, that a lot of things about human beings don't make sense without life after death. Why do we even have the desire at all? What about all the times we "die" to things in real life, in order to grow (i.e., give up a behavior or a crutch that feels like death -- then find ourselves better, stronger, and more rejuvenated?) \n\nThere are patterns in this life that suggest life continues after death... there's just no tangible evidence that we can "prove" it.