What happens when we die?

The body’s death is a common limit, but it leaves the living with questions that observation alone does not settle. Is the person gone, transformed, awaiting new life, or caught in a longer continuity of action and consequence? Grief can make those questions intimate long before they become theology or philosophy.

Buddhist teachings place death within rebirth and the possibility of release from that cycle. The Bhagavad Gita speaks of a Self not slain with the body. Christian faith hopes for resurrection: new life given by God. Other views expect oblivion or remain with mystery. These sacred and philosophical maps meet at mortality, but none is publicly established as fact about what follows death.