A Thinking Man's Ponderings

Before Harry died, he asked his brothers and a few close friends to hold a seance so that he could one day do the impossible and escape death. Still to this day on every Halloween a seance is held calling for the great Harry Houdini to return to Earth.

- From Wikipedia

Houdini who could escape from almost anything never made it back from death. I find this a little disturbing. If Houdini, the king of escape artists, couldn’t escape from death to send a signal from the Great Beyond, like “It’s beautiful here,” what does that say about life on the other side?

Do we just die and that’s all there is, as atheists contend? Do we blank out like in sleep and become forever obliterated? Or is there really more?

You can say religious books promise an afterlife, yet, all that is going on belief. You can say some people have died and gone to heaven and come back to tell their incredible accounts, but they were only dead for a few minutes and skeptics provide plausible arguments, such as the mind conjuring up childhood religious images, why these near death experiences may not be the final word on the afterlife. And, of course, some people claiming fantastic after death experiences could be lying.

Maybe when you’re dead you’re dead, at least to returning this world with messages from the beyond, though if you do a little research you will find some compelling accounts of after death communications where loved ones believe they have heard from deceased family members.

I choose to believe there’s more. If one of the greatest escape artists failure to break free from the chains of death portends our lives end in the grave, I could deal with that. After all who be around to worry about it, if you get what I mean.