It's to the best of our knowledge from PRI, this hour, afterlife.

You know, nobody knows what happens after we die. Maybe nothing. But a lot of people think maybe something does.

Judgment at the pearly gates, an endless walkabout in the afterlife, karmic rebirth, wherever you go,

people have ideas about life after life.

So I was in this village called Ben Chong in eastern Nepal, and I heard that a boy in the village

hadn't fallen.

Apparently he was cutting fodder from some of the higher branches on a tree,

and he fell from the tree onto a layer of stones on his back,

and he was paralyzed.

Sometimes encountering another culture's beliefs

can change what you think about life and death.

You, not a love. can change what you think about life and death.

Jeffrey Potter was filming in a tiny village in Nepal back in 2000 when he witnessed the death of a boy named Harka.

He was not expecting what happened next.

Ranjokli. What happened next? I sat with him and I watched his lungs, I suppose, fill with fluid until, you know, his eyes rolled back and, you know, I think those were his last

breaths.

The funeral would be the next day, and so as the evening wore on, fewer and fewer people

were awake, and I decided to make a little room for myself and curl up there.

And I had a dream that Arka came to me.

And so he said, I'd like to say goodbye to my mother.

Can I just borrow your body?

I'll come in through you and communicate to my mother, and then I'll go.

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