Love comes and goes. Or does it? Ostensibly, in this world at least, we meet people, partners, friends and foes...only to part later on. Whether in this life or beyond, what about taking afresh look at unresolved issues we've left behind us?  Making up with enemies who could as well have been friends in different circumstances.

Some of us have fallen out with God, 

Stories of believers turning away from God. abound. So do stories of atheists turning to faith. Others remain adamant disbelievers till the bitter end. For them death is nothing more than the end of them, full stop, The body goes back to the earth it came from, as ashes or in a coffin.

Survivers of near-death encounters tell a different story.

The different story is told by a number of NDE experiencers who, gazing at their bruised body from the ceiling of an  operation room after some deadly accident, have reported feeling more alive than they'd ever been. Never mind that their heart's electrical activity showed a flat line on the electrocardiogram for several minutes. According to esoteric authorities (who write books on the afterlife), patients who didn't survive surgery can sometimes be in denial of their passing long after their bodies were burried. Other late persons wake up to the reality of their death only upon meeting a long-gone relative who'd come to greet them at the threshold of the hereafter. Others realise their postion upon being told by the late relative, or by what they perceived as a Being of Light, "You're time hasn't come yet, you must return to your physical body."

In some reports experiencers are given the choice to resume their earthly life. Despite their strong attraction to soar up to the light before their spirit, they may choose to continue their incarnation for the sake of  dependant children, or of a needy spouse,