Life after death

Just the other day a friend of mine lost somebody close to her...and I could not help but wonder what is the point of our existence or "living", if you want it to sound meaningful, if at the end of the day we just die.

I know most of our religions believe in life after death but to a critical thinker its just that, a mere belief. Yet somehow it gives an individual a deep sense of peace even at the moment of death...research shows that non religious people are most scared of death, I guess its because it habours within it the fear of the unknown. Its like being told to walk into a dark room all alone and you have no idea what awaits you...it could be filled with beautiful things and all you have to do is switch on the light or.....full of monsters waiting to devour you!! Or maybe its just that, darkness!! Endless darkness.

Some German scientist conducted an experiment with 944 volunteers where they would put them in a state of clinical death for around 20 minutes then resuscitate them.
The long period was recently made possible by the development of the new cardiopulmonary recitation (CPR) machine called the auto pulse. Now here's the Wow effect, the machine has been used over the last few years to reanimate people who had been dead  for somewhere between 40 minutes to 1 hour!!
Anyway, The purpose of this crazy experiment was to try and establish the possibility of life after death by asking the participants to try and recall anything that happened during the "minutes of death".
All the subjects had some memory of their period of clinical death, most common memories were a feeling of detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution and the presence of an overwhelming light.
Note that the religious beliefs of the various subjects held no base to their memories.

So there you have it, Death is not the "dead end"! There is life after death. Science just echoed what religion has been telling us all this years.