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Life after Death?

  “National Geographic: Moment of Death”
The “National Geographic: Moment of Death” documentary is a way to explain death from the scientific perspective, or give some explanation for it.  This documentary was well done in presenting the subject on death from all different angels.  The patients and doctors spoke honestly on what they truly knew, believe, and experience.  There was enough evidence given to draw some conclusion on death.  Patients, coming near death spoke on what they saw, and you cannot just say their experience was just a hallucination.  How do you explain a situation in which a patient left his body during surgery and saw how the nurses and doctors performed the surgery?
 
This documentary showed patients in the hospitals dieing, those moments that people faced or will be facing--everyone who is once born to life will have to die.  What is interesting here is what doctors have to say about people leaving their bodies and coming back.  They know that there are too many cases when a soul leaves the body and then comes back—but can these unanswered questions on death be answered?  At the end of this movie, an elderly man shares his story.  After coming from the surgery, he was able to say how the doctor and nurses behaved during his surgery. 
 
It is important to note here, with all knowledge, technology, resource that we have now, science is still silent on what happens after death--honestly admitting that there is no scientific explanation on this subject. And this is because from the beginning it was created this way.  A human wants to give an explanation, but it's not given to him do to the way he is created.  Bible clearly teaches that God created heaven and earth, and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to develop it--this is how human genealogy started.  

However, death is part of our life story.  Bible says that after death, person goes right to heaven to stand before a holy, righteous God.  Life that does not end when a human heart stops beating, but rather goes right to God: “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”  (Hebrews 9:27-28)  As much as a human would want to escape the subject on God, he can't escape the subject of death.


This video came from National Geographic website:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3815/Overview
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