Fear of the unknown is a natural reaction that makes even the most notorious atheist, albeit to a minimal extent, believe and adhere to certain rules of behavior in the process, before and after the funeral.

To help the soul of the departed to leave easily material world, you need not only to know the recommendations, but also to understand their deep meaning. Not everyone knows how to behave correctly if such a grief happened in the family. Therefore, we have compiled a detailed article describing the rules of what you can and cannot do.

In Orthodoxy, commemoration after death is held 3 times. On the third day after death, on the ninth, fortieth. The essence of the ritual is a memorial meal. Relatives, acquaintances gather at a common table. They remember the deceased, his good deeds, stories from life.

— On the 3rd day after death (on the same day the funeral is also held), everyone who wants to honor the memory of the deceased gathers. The Christian is first taken to the burial rite in the church or chapel of the cemetery. The unbaptized dead, after parting with the house, are immediately taken to the cemetery. Then everyone returns to the house for the wake. The family of the deceased does not sit at this memorial table.

- In the first seven days after the death of a person, do not take anything out of the house.

— On the 9th day after death, relatives go to the temple, order a memorial service, lay a second memorial table at home, only close relatives are called to honor the memory of the deceased. The commemoration is reminiscent of a family dinner, with the difference that the photo of the deceased is not far from the refectory table. Next to the picture of the deceased put a glass of water or vodka, a slice of bread.

— On the 40th day after the death of a person, a third memorial table is arranged, everyone is invited. On this day, those who could not attend the funeral usually come to the wake. In the church I order Sorokoust - forty liturgies.

- From the day of the funeral until the 40th day, remembering the name of the deceased, we must pronounce the verbal charm formula for ourselves and all the living. At the same time, the same words are a symbolic wish for the deceased: "Earth rest in peace", thereby expressing wishes for his soul to be in paradise.

- After the 40th day and over the next three years, we will say a different wish formula: "Kingdom of heaven to him". Thus, we wish the deceased an afterlife in paradise. These words should be addressed to any deceased, regardless of the circumstances of his life and death. Guided by the biblical commandment "Judge not, lest you be judged".

- During the year following the death of a person, none of the family members has the moral right to take part in any festive celebration.

- None of the family members of the deceased (including the second degree of kinship) could marry or marry during the period of mourning.

- If a relative of the 1st or 2nd degree of kinship has died in the family and a year has not yet passed after his death, then such a family does not have the right to paint eggs red for Easter (they must be white or some other color - blue, black , green) and, accordingly, take part in the celebrations of Easter night.

- After the death of her husband, the wife is forbidden for a year to wash anything on the day of the week on which the trouble happened.

- For a year after death, everything in the house where the deceased lived remains in a state of rest or permanence: repairs cannot be made, furniture rearranged, nothing is given away or sold from the things of the deceased until the soul of the deceased reaches eternal rest.

- Exactly one year after death, the family of the deceased celebrates a memorial meal (“please”) - the 4th, final memorial family and birth table. It must be remembered that the living cannot be congratulated on their birthday in advance, and the final memorial table should be arranged either exactly one year later, or 1-3 days earlier.

On this day, you need to go to the temple and order a memorial service for the deceased, go to the cemetery - visit the grave.

As soon as the last memorial meal is over, the family is again included in the traditional scheme of festive regulations of the folk calendar, becomes a full member of the community, has the right to take part in any tribal celebrations, including weddings.

- A monument on the grave can only be erected after a year after the death of a person. And it is necessary to remember Golden Rule folk culture: "Do not chapay the land pasture Pakravou da Radaunshchy." This means that if the year of the deceased fell at the end of October, i.e. after the Intercession (and for the entire subsequent period up to Radunitsa), then the monument can only be erected in the spring, after Radunitsa.

- After the installation of the monument, the cross (usually wooden) is placed next to the grave for another year, and then thrown away. It can also be buried under a flower garden or under a gravestone.

- You can marry (get married) after the death of one of the spouses only after a year. If a woman married a second time, then the new husband became the full owner-owner only after seven years.

- If the spouses were married, then after the death of the husband, his wife took his ring, and if she no longer remarried, then both wedding rings were placed in her coffin.

- If the husband buried his wife, then her wedding ring remained with him, and after his death, both rings were placed in his coffin, so that when they met in the Kingdom of Heaven, they would say: “I brought our rings with which the Lord God crowned us.

For three years, the birthday of the deceased and the day of his death are celebrated. After this period, only the day of death and all annual church holidays of commemoration of ancestors are celebrated.

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Cemetery visit throughout the year

During the first year and all subsequent years, you can go to the cemetery only on Saturdays (except for 9, 40 days after death and church holidays of honoring ancestors, such as Radunitsa or Autumn Grandfathers). These are the days of commemoration of the dead recognized by the church. Try to convince your relatives that you should not constantly come to the grave to the deceased, thereby harming their health.
Visit the cemetery before 12 noon.
Whichever way you come to the cemetery, come back the same way.

• Meatfare Saturday is the Saturday in the ninth week before Easter.
• Ecumenical Parental Saturday - Saturday in the second week of Great Lent.
• Ecumenical Parental Saturday - Saturday in the third week of Great Lent.
• Ecumenical Parental Saturday - Saturday in the fourth week of Great Lent.
• Radunitsa - Tuesday in the second week after Easter.
• Trinity Saturday is the Saturday in the seventh week after Easter.
• Dmitrievskaya Saturday - Saturday in the third week after.

How to dress for the anniversary of death?

Clothing for the anniversary of death is of no small importance. If a trip to the cemetery is planned before the memorial dinner, weather conditions should be taken into account. To visit the church, women need to prepare a headdress (shawl).

For all funeral events, dress strictly. Shorts, deep neckline, bows and ruffles will look indecent. Bright, colorful colors are best avoided. business, office suits, closed shoes, strict dresses in muted tones - an appropriate choice for a mourning date.

Is it possible to make repairs after the funeral?

According to signs that are not related to Orthodoxy, repairs in the house where the deceased lived cannot be done within 40 days. You can not make any changes to the interior. In addition, all belongings of the deceased must be thrown away after 40 days. And on the bed on which a person died, his blood relatives should not sleep at all. From an ethical point of view, the repair will only refresh the state of the mourners of the loss of people. It will help to get rid of things reminiscent of a person. Although many, in memory of a departed loved one, seek to keep for themselves some of what belongs to him. According to signs, this is again not worth doing. Therefore, repair will be a good solution in all cases.

Can I clean up after the funeral?

While the dead in the house you can not clean and take out the trash. It is believed that the rest of the family members will die. When the deceased was taken out of the house, it is necessary to thoroughly wash the floor. It is forbidden for blood relatives to do this. Orthodox Church also denies this point and considers it superstition.

When we lose loved ones, we feel the pain of loss. It seems that the dead will call, come, return. It is necessary to pull yourself together and try not to "drown" the soul, pouring out a stream of tears. For the first three days, she is close to her loved ones, not getting used to her condition.

The grief of relatives has a negative effect on the incorporeal shell. After the spirit left the body, he continued the difficult path to the Kingdom of God. By keeping the Christian scriptures, relatives can make it easier to consider the deceased. Especially, this applies to 40 days after the death of a person.

Traditions

Spirit happens in places associated with memories, feelings. After that, the verdict is announced to him. This stage occurs 40 days after the death of a person. Do not stop praying for his soul. You will help the deceased to be cleansed of sins. The memorial evening, which is held on the 40th day, is organized in a close circle. Do you want to keep the customs of the church? Better check with the priest: what can and cannot be done.

Drinking is usually prohibited alcoholic beverages, feast.

Table menu for the commemoration of 40 days after the death of a person

This includes meals:

• Compote or kvass drink.
• Light canapes.
• Salads.
• Baking (pancakes, pies).
• Funeral kutya from grain, with honey.
• Cutlets, fish.
• Where is the spirit going?

For 40 days after the death of a person, his soul returns to his native walls. This is the last visit. She says goodbye to her loved ones and relatives in order to leave for eternal rest. The soul is allowed to visit places that were dear to her when she was in the physical body. Although relatives may not feel a strong presence of mind. If you want to provide him with peace, invite the person who organizes the memorial evening with all the rites. He will cope with the emotional situation and help to avoid tears that will not bring happiness to the soul of the deceased. The torment of loved ones can, on the contrary, weigh down the sentence. If you do not want to involve third parties in what is happening, buy a psalter. It describes 40 days after a person's death.

Alms

A special clause for 40 days after the death of a person. Gather the belongings of the deceased and distribute them to those in need. No need to throw away! Instead, make donations to the temple. These are clothes, personal belongings of the deceased. Leave yourself memorable copies that you will not be able to part with. It's okay if you give some clothes to friends and acquaintances of the deceased. The amount of alms that you donate to the temple, no matter how mercantile it sounds, is taken into account when deciding on the soul of the deceased. Give alms to passers-by and they will pray for the repose of your relative.

Canons prescribed by the Church for 40 days after the death of a person

For 40 days after the death of a person, do not stop reading prayer words. This must be done both in God's house and in one's own dwelling. Wake should be organized in the temple if the deceased was a believer. The priest can even allow a meal in the church dining room if the deceased relative was listed as a parishioner. On this day, remember all the good things about a person, this will ease his lot before the Lord God. Book a memorial service.

What to consider when conducting the ceremony for 40 days after the death of a person?

• First a prayer service - then a meal.
• Remember the good deeds of the deceased.
• Do not drink alcohol, and do not allow fun on the memorial evening.

What should relatives do up to 40 days after the death of a person?

• Do not touch the things of the deceased.
• Do not rearrange the furniture in his house/room.
• Try not to speak badly about the dead.
• Try to do as many good deeds as possible on behalf of your deceased.
• Be sure to hang mirrors at home, otherwise the soul can get lost in them. Interestingly, this custom, in the church's view, is considered superstition.

Outcome:

After 40 days after the death of a person, “X-hour” begins. The soul has gone through all the ordeals of hell. The guardian angel presented the good deeds of the deceased to the judgment of the Almighty. The spirit visited paradise and saw the horrors of the Underworld. Now nothing depends on him. Angels and demons will keep a record of the good and bad deeds of the deceased. Relatives tirelessly prayed on earth for his soul. That is also taken into account when making a final verdict. Thus, the soul forever breaks the connection with the material world.

Advice: after the loss of a beloved husband, brother, father, go to the monastery, order a magpie. Monks every day for 40 days after the death of a person will commemorate your deceased. The soul went to the afterlife, and it can only be helped by prayers.

The question, of course, is very interesting to many, and there are two most popular views on it: scientific and religious.

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What happens to the soul after death?

This question is of interest to many people, and now in Russia there is even an institution that is trying to measure the soul, weigh it and film it on camera. But in the Vedas it is described that the soul is immeasurable, it is eternal and always existing, and is equal to one ten thousandth of the tip of a hair, that is, very small. It is practically impossible to measure it with any material instruments. Think for yourself, how can you measure the intangible with tangible instruments? This is a mystery to people, a mystery.

The Vedas say that the tunnel described by survivors clinical death is nothing but a channel in our body. There are 9 main openings in our body - ears, eyes, nostrils, navel, anus, genitals. There is a channel in the head called sushumna, you can feel it - if you close your ears, you will hear a noise. Temechko is also a channel through which the soul can exit. She can exit through any of these channels. After death, experienced people can determine to which sphere of being the soul went. If it came out through the mouth, then the soul returns to the earth again, if through the left nostril - towards the moon, through the right - towards the sun, if through the navel - it goes to the planetary systems that are below the Earth, and if through the genitals, then it enters to the lower realms. It so happened that I saw a lot of dying people in my life, in particular the death of my grandfather. At the moment of death, he opened his mouth, then there was a big exhalation. His soul came out through his mouth. Thus, the life force, together with the soul, leaves through these channels.

Where do the souls of the dead go?

After the soul has left the body, for 40 days it will stay in the place where it lived. It happens that people, after the funeral, feel that someone is present in the house. If you want to feel like a ghost, imagine eating ice cream in a plastic bag: there are possibilities, but you can't do anything, you can't taste anything, you can't touch anything, you can't physically move. When a ghost looks in the mirror, he does not see himself, and feels shock. Hence the custom of covering mirrors.

The first day after the death of the physical body, the soul is in shock because it cannot understand how it will live without the body. Therefore it is customary in India to immediately destroy the body. If the body is dead for a long time, the soul will constantly circle around it. If the body is buried, she will see the decomposition process. Until the body rots, the soul will stay with it, because during its lifetime it was very attached to its outer shell, practically identified itself with it, the body was the most valuable and expensive.

On the 3-4th day, the soul comes to its senses a little, gets rid of the body, walks around the neighborhood, and returns to the house. Relatives do not need to arrange tantrums and loud sobs, the soul hears everything, and experiences these torments. At this time, you need to read the scriptures and literally explain what the soul should do next. Spirits hear everything, they are next to us. Death is a transition new life death as such does not exist. Just as in life we ​​change clothes, so the soul changes one body for another. The soul during this period does not experience physical pain, but psychological pain, it is very worried and does not know what to do next. Therefore, it is necessary to help the soul and calm it down.

Then you need to feed her. When stress passes, the soul wants to eat. This state appears in the same way as during life. The subtle body wants to taste. And in response to this we put a glass of vodka and bread. Think for yourself, when you are hungry and thirsty, you are offered a dry crust of bread and vodka! How will you feel?

You can facilitate the further life of the soul after death. For this, the first 40 days do not need to touch anything in the room of the deceased and do not start sharing his things. After 40 days, on behalf of the deceased, you can do some good deed and transfer the power of this deed to him - for example, keep a fast on his birthday and declare that the power of fasting passes to the deceased. In order to help the deceased, you need to earn this right. Just lighting a candle is not enough. In particular, you can feed the priests or distribute alms, plant a tree, and all this must be done on behalf of the deceased.

The scriptures say that after 40 days the soul comes to the bank of the river called Virajya. This river is teeming with various fish and monsters. There is a boat near the river, and if the soul has enough piety to pay for the boat, it swims across, and if not, then it swims - this is the way to the courtroom. After the soul has crossed this river, the god of death Yamaraj awaits it, or in Egypt it is called Anibus. A conversation is being held with him, the whole life is shown as if on a film. There the further destiny is determined: in what body the soul will be born again and in what world.

By performing certain rituals, the ancestors can greatly help the dead, facilitate their further path, and even literally pull them out of hell.

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Does a person feel the approach of his death

If in terms of premonitions, then there are examples in history when people predicted their death over the next few days. But this does not mean that everyone is capable of this. And don't forget about the great power of coincidences.

It may be interesting to know if a person is able to understand that he is dying:

• We all feel the deterioration of our own condition.
• Although not all internal organs have pain receptors, in our body there are more than enough of them.
• We even feel the arrival of a banal SARS. What can we say about death.
• Regardless of our desires, the body does not want to die in a panic and activates all resources to fight a serious condition.
• This process may be accompanied by convulsions, pain syndrome, expressed by shortness of breath.
• But not every sharp deterioration well-being indicates the approach of death. Most often, the alarm will be false, so you should not panic in advance.
• Do not try to cope with conditions close to critical on your own. Call for help from everyone you can.

Signs of approaching death

As death approaches, a person may experience some physical and emotional changes, such as:

• Excessive drowsiness and weakness, at the same time periods of wakefulness decrease, energy fades.
• Breathing changes, periods of rapid breathing are replaced by respiratory arrests.
• Hearing and vision change, for example, a person hears and sees things that others do not notice.
• The appetite worsens, the person drinks and eats less than usual.
• Changes in the urinary and gastrointestinal systems. Your urine may turn dark brown or dark red, and you may also have bad (hard) stools.
• Body temperature fluctuates from very high to very low.
• Emotional changes, a person is not interested in the outside world and individual details Everyday life such as time and date.

Please explain what the 3rd, 9th and 40th days after the death of a person mean. What is going through and where is the soul of the deceased these days?

Priest Afanasy Gumerov, a resident of the Sretensky Monastery, answers:

Our earthly existence is a preparation for the future life: “it is appointed for men to die once, and then judgment” (Heb. 9:27). Post-mortem experiences testify that, freed from bodily stoutness, the soul becomes more active. The trials that she undergoes immediately after separation from the body are of a spiritual and moral nature. All that she did good and bad remains. Therefore, for the soul, from the very beginning of the afterlife (even before the Judgment), joys or sufferings begin, depending on how it lived on earth. Reverend John Cassian writes: “the souls of the dead not only do not lose their feelings, but they do not lose their dispositions, i.e. hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, and some of what they expect for themselves at the universal judgment, they already begin to anticipate, contrary to the opinion of some unbelievers, that after the exodus from this life they are destroyed into nothing; they become even more alive and zealously cling to the glorification of God” (Conversation 1, ch. 14). In the first two days, freed from the mortal body, the soul enjoys freedom and can visit those places on earth that were dear to her. But on the third day it falls into other areas. A revelation given by an angel to Saint Macarius of Alexandria (he died in 395) is known: “When an offering takes place in the Church on the third day, the soul of the deceased receives relief from the angel guarding it in sorrow, which it feels from separation from the body; receives because the doxology and offering in the Church of God has been completed for her, which is why a good hope is born in her. For in the course of two days the soul, together with the angels who are with it, is allowed to walk the earth wherever it wishes. Therefore, the soul that loves the body sometimes wanders around the house in which it was separated from the body, sometimes around the tomb in which the body is laid.<...>And the virtuous soul goes to those places where it used to do the right thing. On the third day, He who rose from the dead on the third day - the God of all - commands, in imitation of His Resurrection, to ascend to heaven for every Christian soul to worship the God of all. So it is the custom of the good Church to make an offering and prayer for the soul on the third day. After worshiping God, He is commanded to show the soul the various and pleasant abodes of the saints and the beauty of paradise. All this is considered by the soul for six days, wondering and glorifying the Creator of all this - God. Contemplating all this, she changes and forgets the sorrow she had while in the body. But if she is guilty of sins, then at the sight of the pleasures of the saints, she begins to grieve and reproach herself, saying: “Alas!” to me! How I fussed in that world! Carried away by the satisfaction of lusts, I spent most of my life in carelessness and did not serve God as I should, so that I could also be rewarded with this goodness.<...>After considering all the joys of the righteous for six days, she again ascends by angels to worship God. So, the Church does well, making services and offerings for the deceased on the ninth day. After the second worship, the Lord of all again commands to take the soul to hell and show it the places of torment located there, the different sections of hell and the various wicked torments.<...>Through these various places of torment the soul rushes about for thirty days, trembling, lest it itself be condemned to imprisonment in them. On the fortieth day, she again ascends to worship God; and then the Judge determines a decent place for her in deeds<...>So, the Church is doing the right thing, making commemoration of the departed and those who received Baptism ”(St. Macarius of Alexandria. A word on the exodus of the souls of the righteous and sinners ..., - “Christian Reading”, 1831, part 43, p. 123-31; “How to conduct soul for the first forty days after leaving the body, M., 1999, pp. 13-19).

Modern man can do almost anything, but the mystery of death remains a mystery even today. No one can say exactly what awaits after the death of the physical body, what path the soul has to overcome and whether it will be. Nevertheless, numerous testimonies from near-death survivors suggest that life on the other side is real. And religion teaches how to overcome the path to Eternity and find endless joy.

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Where does the soul go after death?

According to church ideas, after death, the soul will have to go through 20 ordeals - terrible trials of mortal sins. This will make it possible to determine whether the soul is worthy of entering the Kingdom of the Lord, where infinite grace and peace await it. These ordeals are terrible, even the Holy Virgin Mary, according to biblical texts, was afraid of them and prayed to her son for permission to avoid death torments.

Not a single newly-departed will be able to avoid ordeals. But the soul can be helped: for this, loved ones who have remained on mortal earth light candles, fast and pray.

Consistently, the soul falls from one level of ordeals to another, each of which is more terrible and painful than the previous one. Here is their list:

1. Idle talk is a passion for empty words and excessive talk.
2. Lying is the intentional deception of others for their own benefit.
3. Slander is the spread of false rumors about a third person and the condemnation of other people's actions.
4. Gluttony is an excessive love of food.
5. Idleness is laziness and life in inaction.
6. Theft is the misappropriation of another's property.
7. Covetousness - excessive attachment to material values.
8. Covetousness is the desire to obtain values ​​dishonestly.
9. Untruth in deeds and deeds - craving to commit dishonest actions.
10. Envy is the desire to take possession of the same that the neighbor has.
11. Pride is the veneration of oneself above others.
12. Anger and fury.
13. Resentment - the storage in the memory of other people's misdeeds, a thirst for revenge.
14. Murder.
15. Sorcery is the use of magic.
16. Fornication - promiscuity.
17. Adultery is adultery.
18. Sodomy - God denies the unions of a man and a man, a woman and a woman.
19. Heresy is the denial of our God.
20. Cruelty - a callous heart, immunity to someone else's grief.

7 deadly sins

Most ordeals are a standard idea of ​​the virtues of a person, prescribed for every righteous person by the law of God. The soul will be able to reach Paradise, only having successfully passed through all the ordeals. If she does not pass at least one test, the ethereal body will get stuck at this level and will be forever tormented by Demons.

Where does a person go after death?

The ordeals of the soul come on the 3rd day after death and last as long as the sins a person committed during his earthly life. Only on the 40th day after death will the final decision be made on where the soul will spend eternity - in Hellfire or in Paradise, near the Lord God.

Every soul can be saved, for God is merciful: repentance will cleanse from the sins of even the most fallen person, if sincerely.

In Paradise, the soul does not know worries, does not feel any desires, earthly passions are no longer known to it: the only emotion is the joy of being near the Lord. In hell, souls are tormented and tormented for eternity, even after the Universal Resurrection, their souls, united with the flesh, will continue to suffer.

What happens 9, 40 days and six months after death

After death, everything that happens to the soul is not subject to its will: the newly deceased is left to humble himself and accept the new reality meekly and with dignity. For the first 2 days, the soul stays close to the physical shell, it says goodbye to its native places, to loved ones. At this time, she is accompanied by angels and demons - each side is trying to lure the soul to its side.

Angels and demons fight for every soul

On the 3rd day, ordeals begin, during this period, relatives should pray especially a lot and earnestly. After the cessation of ordeals, the angels will take the soul to Paradise - to show the bliss that can await it in eternity. For 6 days, the soul forgets about all worries and diligently repents of sins committed knowingly and unknown.

On the 9th day, the soul cleansed of sins again appears before the face of God. Relatives and friends should pray for the deceased, ask for mercy for him. There is no need for tears and groaning, only good things are remembered about the newly deceased.

It is best to dine on day 9 with kutya flavored with honey, symbolizing the sweet life under the Lord God. After the 9th day, the angels will show the soul of the deceased Hell and torment awaiting those who lived unrighteously.

Pastor V. I. Savchak will tell about what happens to the soul after death on each day:

On the 40th day, the soul reaches Mount Sinai and appears before the face of the Lord for the third time: it is on this day that the question of where the soul will spend eternity is finally decided. Commemorations and prayers of relatives will be able to smooth out the earthly sins of the deceased.

Six months after the death of the bodily soul, the penultimate time will visit relatives and friends: they are no longer able to change its fate in eternal life, it remains only to remember the good and pray fervently for eternal peace.

Orthodoxy and death

For a believing Orthodox person, life and death are inseparable. Death is perceived calmly and solemnly, as the beginning of the transition to eternity. A Christian believes that everyone will be rewarded according to their deeds, therefore they are more concerned not about the number of days lived, but about being filled with good deeds and deeds. After death, the Last Judgment awaits the soul, at which it will be decided whether a person will enter the Kingdom of God or go straight to Gehenna Fiery for grave sins.

Icon doomsday in the Church of the Nativity

The teaching of Christ instructs his followers: do not be afraid of death, for this is not the end. Live in such a way that you spend eternity before the face of God. This postulate contains a huge power that gives hope for an endless life and humility before death.

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The soul of a child

Saying goodbye to a child is a great grief, but do not grieve unnecessarily, the soul of a baby not burdened with sins will go to a better place. Until the age of 14, it is believed that the child does not bear full responsibility for his actions, because he did not have time to reach the age of desires. At this time, the child may be physically weak, but his soul is endowed with great wisdom: often babies remember their past reincarnations, memories of which pop up in fragments in their minds.

Nobody dies without their own consent- death comes at the moment when the soul of a person calls for it. The death of a child is his own choice, just the soul decided to return home - to heaven.

Children perceive death differently than adults. After the death of a relative, the child will be perplexed - why is everyone grieving? He doesn't understand why going back to heaven is something bad. At the moment of his own death, the child does not feel any grief, or the bitterness of parting, or regrets - he often does not even understand that he has parted with life, feeling happy, as before.

After death, the soul of the child lives in joy in the First Heaven.

The soul is met by a relative who loved him or simply by a bright essence who loved children during his lifetime. Here, life is as similar as possible to earthly life: he has a house and toys, friends and relatives. Any desire of the soul is fulfilled in the blink of an eye.

Children whose lives were interrupted in the womb - due to abortion, miscarriage or improper birth - also do not suffer, do not suffer. Their soul remains attached to the mother, she becomes the first in line for physical incarnation during the next pregnancy of a woman.

Soul of the suicidal

From time immemorial, suicide has been considered a grave sin - in this way a person violates the intent of God, taking away the life bestowed by the Almighty. Only the Creator has the right to control destinies, and the idea of ​​laying hands on oneself was given by Satan, who tempts and tests a person.

Gustave Dore. Suicide forest

A person who died a natural death experiences bliss and relief, but for a suicide, the torment is just beginning. One man could not come to terms with the death of his wife and decided to lay hands on himself in order to reunite with his beloved. However, he was not at all nearby: the man was resuscitated and asked about that side of life. According to him, this is something terrible, the feeling of horror never goes away, the feeling of inner torture is endless.

After death, the soul of a suicide seeks the Heavenly Gates, but they are locked. Then she tries to return to the body again - but this also turns out to be impossible. The soul is in limbo, experiencing terrible torment until the moment when a person was destined to die.

All the people who managed to be saved after death from suicide describe terrible pictures. The soul is in an endless fall, which cannot be interrupted, the tongues of hellish flames tickle the skin and become closer and closer. Most of the saved are haunted by nightmare visions for the rest of their days. If thoughts of interrupting life with your own hands creep into your head, you need to remember: there is always a way out.

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Souls of animals

Regarding animals, clergy and mediums do not have an unequivocal answer to the question of the last refuge for souls. However, some holy men unequivocally speak of the possibility of introducing the beast to the Kingdom of Heaven. The Apostle Paul directly declares that after death the animal is waiting for deliverance from slavery and earthly suffering, adheres to this point of view and St. Simeon the New Theologian, saying that, serving in a mortal body, the soul of an animal will taste highest good after physical death.

The souls of animals will find liberation from the slave share after the death of the physical.

The point of view on this account of Theophan the Recluse is interesting: the saint believed that after death all the souls of living beings (except people) join the great World Soul, created by the Creator long before the creation of the world.

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Thinking about death and fearing it is completely normal. Each person wants to look behind the veil of the eternal mystery of Life and find out what awaits beyond its borders. Thanatology proves that from the time of the Ancient World, people prepared for death in advance, thought about it as a part of life, and this was perhaps the greatest wisdom of our ancestors.

Parapsychologists say that after the death of a person, the soul experiences the same feelings as a person during physical death, so it is important to remain calm and confident until the very last breath.

After death, the soul is waiting for exactly what a person deserved during his lifetime: infinity, which he will spend on the other side, depends on his actions and deeds. Years lived with dignity, offenders forgiven, warm relationships with loved ones will help the soul to be in the best place where peace, all-consuming love and bliss await her.

Death is an inevitable reality that everyone will face sooner or later. But this is not the end - only the physical shell dies, and the human soul acquires true immortality, so there is no need to be sad, it is worth letting go of your soul with a light heart, dreaming that one day you will be able to meet again - already on the other side of life.

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