The doctors who monitored Uexkul reported that all clinical signs of death ("he was absent") were present and the state of death lasted 36 hours.

Dr. Moody and other scientists have described many similar cases. All of them say that a new existence does not begin beyond the threshold, but the previous one continues. There was no break in life, and the person began life there as he was at the moment of transition. Apparently, human life on earth is only the beginning, only a preparation for what awaits us all after the death of the body. What was begun here will continue there; Probably, some kind of responsibility and retribution for what was done during earthly life awaits. All the great religions speak of this. And, apparently, it is very important to cross the threshold in a state of malice, tranquility and peace, without taking with you a single dark stain on your conscience.

Christianity has always known this, which is why it advised everyone to confess and take communion before death. The state of the personality at the time of death is more important than the entire previous life of a person.

This is also evidenced by the Gospel account of Luke (23:32-33 and 39-43) about the robbers. Here it is: "They led two evildoers with Him to death. And when they came to a place called Skull, there they crucified Him and the evildoers, one on the right and the other on the left... One of them cursed Him and said: "If you are the Christ, save Yourself and us." The other, on the contrary, rebuked him and said: "Or do you not fear God, when you yourself are condemned to the same thing? And we are justly condemned, because we have received what is worthy according to our works; but He has done nothing wrong." And he said to Jesus, "Remember me, O Lord, when you come into your kingdom." And Jesus said to him, "Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

The life of the robber was bad, but repentance in the last hours before death promises a good beginning to the future existence.

Christianity has always told us this. In the Revelation of St. John the Theologian it is said: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord... they will calm down and their deeds will follow them."

Christianity has always known and taught that man is more than meat and bones or a simple combination of chemical elements, that in addition to the body man has a soul, and that at the moment of death of the body the soul does not die, but proceeds from the body and continues to live and develop in new conditions.

Here are some quotes from the Holy Scriptures. Jesus Christ Himself speaks quite definitely about eternal life. Addressing His disciples, the apostles, He said: "Verily, verily, I say to you, he who believes in Me has eternal life." This is from the Gospel of John (chapter 6, verse 47). And again: "And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28).

And here are the words of Jesus Christ: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).

And again: the first testimony is from Luke (20:38), the second from John (12:50 and 14:1-2). "But God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for with Him all are alive." "I know that His commandment is eternal life. Let not your heart be troubled" – that is, do not doubt – "in My Father's house there are many mansions..." The closest disciples of Jesus Christ were called apostles – pillars of faith. At first there were twelve, then seventy more. They came to Christ at different times. Among them were ordinary people – fishermen, there were also scientists. The Apostle Luke, one of the seventy, was a physician. They followed Christ, leaving everything behind, and gradually learning new things for them, they came to a deep faith in one God and eternal life. After that, none of them had any doubts. They saw that Jesus Christ brought the dead back to life, which meant that death on earth was not always final. They saw Jesus Christ crucified, died on the cross, rose from the tomb three days later for eternal life, and appeared to them several times in a new body. All of them devoted their lives to serving Jesus Christ, being persecuted and tormented. Eleven of the twelve were martyred. They accepted it joyfully, without hesitation, because they knew that only the body dies, and the soul cannot be killed, because it is immortal.

Many apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ, and then many saints and simply theologians, wrote that death is not the end and that the soul lives forever. If you read this without prejudice, then your soul becomes lighter, because truthful people wrote who gave their lives for what they believed in. And what they described is the result of what they have seen and experienced, and not the fruit of reflection; Not a game of the mind, but the results of experience.

One of the disciples of the Apostle Paul, knowing that his teacher was not afraid of death, asked him about it. The Apostle Paul answered: "It is good for me here and it will be good there." Speaking of life after the death of the body, he said: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).

In the same epistle, in chapter 15, he explains more: "Not all flesh is the same flesh... there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies... and as we bore the image of the earthly, we will also bear the image of the heavenly... for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality... Death! These words of the Holy Apostle Paul speak of how Christianity understands death – when a person dies, he changes his perishable, temporary body for an incorruptible, eternal body.

For the apostles and many saints, the existence of the soul was obvious, so they did not prove, did not convince, but looked at it as something self-evident. St. John the Theologian wrote the prophetic book "Apocalypse", it is also called "Revelation". There are many interesting and important things in it, many predictions that have partially already come true. In the first chapter, St. John writes, "I was in the spirit on the day of the Lord," and then describes what was shown to him when he was in the spirit, out of the body. He doesn't explain what it means to be in the spirit, but he says, "I was in the spirit," as you would say, "I was on the street" or "At my neighbor's."