Illness and Dying HW 17

When I think of illness and dying the first thought that comes to my mind is what happens after you die. I feel that this is something that comes to everybody's mind at least once. There are so many different approaches and religions that try to explain what happens after you die. But I realize that it is impossible for me to know, or for anyone to truly know. If somebody claims to have talked to god and nobody was there then it could be a lie or maybe that person is crazy. It is also quite possible that this person did speak to god. It just seems like religion is just a way to tell people how to live using the one thing that they hold dearest to them, which is their lives and their families lives. As I said I would never be able to know what happens. I have had numerous thoughts about what could happen but that is just a prediction. It seems like there is just nothingness afterword but that brings up body and spirit. Weather the body and spirit are separate or if it is all one. If the body and mind are separate then there are endless possibilities to what the afterlife is but if not it seems like literally a dead end. I have no idea what exactly illness is. Whenever I have had been sick I have never really felt like I had microscopic organisms attacking me from the inside. To me that sounds a bit abstract but this is what I have been taught my whole life so that is what I have to go with. But I still have never seen any germs or any sicknesses so I can't really know for sure what it is that makes people sick. I have always been taught that dying and illness are very serious things which is true. You always have to treat sick people good and always respect the dead. Nothing really that seems unreasonable. When a person dies all they leave behind is there memories, which is really the only thing we all have, so in respect to that many try to keep the memory of that person alive.