The idea of reunification with loved ones is very comforting. While the likelihood of a reunion after death may be low, perhaps the idea is more important than the result. In other words, if there is nothing after death, there’s still no harm in believing you may see a loved one again when you die. In fact, the thought of reuniting with loved ones after death helps many people through the [process of grief](https://www.verywellmind.com/five-stages-of-grief-4175361). It can make goodbyes seem less permanent, and provide comfort during some of the most difficult times in our lives.

**From an epistemological point of view, we cannot assert anything supernatural with certainty. Therefore, the "will" is this question renders it difficult to agree with.** The definition of knowledge accompanied with certainty has always been a central problem in the field of epistemology, the branch in philosophy that deals with knowledge. Despite this controversy, philosophers do have several general agreements on the properties of knowledge. One property of knowledge is that is cannot be mere "true belief"; at its bare minimum, knowledge must be "justified true belief", and this alone may still not be sufficient. (See the Gettier problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem) In other words, even, _even_, if we truly reunite with our loved ones after we die, that does not mean that right now we can assert that we will with certainty. We need to look if there is any possible justification behind this statement. There are two most prominent schools of epistemology, rationalism and empiricism. The former believes that reason is the source of knowledge, while the latter believes that experience takes that role. The question to be asked is, can our reunion with our loved ones be justified by either reason or experience? Reason should be easily ruled out first. There is no way by which we can arrive at the proposition "we will reunite with our loved ones" with existing principles or axioms, in the same manner as we are doing math. How about experience? Does any of our sensory faculties reveal to us the truth of this proposition? I do not believe so. Since there is no possible way to justify (or even falsify) such a proposition, this statement is not within the bounds of epistemological certainty. Therefore, we can only assert no.

**Steven Hawkins said "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers.”** This reflects how I feel about the afterlife and/or being reunited with our loved ones - that it is unfathomable. I cannot see that there is something beyond death that defies physics and biology. I think that it is of comfort to people to hope and to believe that we will be reunited with loved ones after we die but there is something too avoidant about death in this for me. The thing that is most precious about life is that it is finite and that we have to savour our loved ones and our special moments.