Various institutions have performed research about the afterlife near death experiences or about consciousness after death finding proof that life continues after death there have been many cases of near death experiences where people have had an encounter with the afterlife such as seeing the light or meeting their loved ones who passed away . Death was at the centre of life in the middle ages in a way that might seem shocking to us today with high rates of infant mortality disease famine the constant presence of war and the inability of medicine to deal with common injuries death was a brutal part of most peoples everyday experience as a result attitudes towards life were very . What is death death occurs when the heart stops beating we call this death by cardiopulmonary criteria and it is how death is defined for more than 95 percent of people a person stops breathing and their brain shuts down causing all life processes to cease. Facing death and the life after throughout his long evangelistic career and in his many books dr billy graham has told millions about christs offer of eternal life now he calls for christians to confront the sobering face of death realistically but with the confidence that through christ the final enemy can be conquered throughout his long