Hi Shorty, at 18 years old, perhaps living a very full life might be best, certainly important.

There is neither 'heaven' or 'hell', but you will continue to live in a real, solid world - the quality of which depends entirely on what you do with this one.

Shorty, do you 'wander the world' just now?

I'd say there is a heaven because I experienced it one night. This might sound contradictory, but it was better than I can remember.

Some people get stuck in their own self created darkness for a while, but if you live a good life, according to love, you won't have to worry about it.

In answering your most sincere questions shorty...

You may find it useful to do some independent research regarding texts/websites/forums (such as this), regarding afterlife experiences/explorations. Then, as Bruce has put... filter through the information and integrate into your own belief system that which resonates with you (feels right)... Also, as Bruce has put, nobody can force beliefs onto you or anyone else... you must experience things for yourself in order to fully understand/integrate them into your own belief system. Hence, Bruce has lovingly paved a road for those willing to take the journey by explaining to them ways in which they themselves can explore the afterlife/astral planes, and gather information for themselves... I do highly suggest you do some immense independent research regarding this often times, complex and sometimes difficult topic regarding the afterlife. Here's some study material that I've found personally useful regarding my own research:

1.) Bruce Moen's collection of "Afterlife Journey" books/tapes/workshops...

2.) Robert Monroe's books regarding the afterlife...

3.) "Any" independent "authentic" books regarding the afterlife...

4.) Websites that pertain to the questions you pose, including, but not limited to: "www.nderf.org"... "www.near-death.com" ... "www.astralpulse.com", & all of the sites that Kyo has so kindly posted regarding the information you so desperately seek (located under the "personalities" topic in this discussion forum)...

5.) And "much" "much" more...

(What better way to find out information about the afterlife, than from those who have been there)... and remember, hold beliefs in that which resonates with you, and you alone!

Have fun, and enjoy a little life along the way!
PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

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Hi shorty. 

Sorry to hear about your situation. I'll make a prayer for you. 

Also, if I may ask, what are you suffering with?   

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Those are some pretty interesting websites you've posted there Cosmic. 

Thanks again and god bless.

-Kevin

Shorty--- a simple answer for you.
What do you WANT your heaven to be? Do you want trees, animals, water, Ma and Dad?  When we first pass over most of us will get to take a rest, then review our physical lives. If you want helpers---there will be helpers. Slowly but surely you will "remember ALL" and then you get to choose where the next learning experience will be.  You get to choose the reception area that is most comfortable for you.
I hope this helps. Love and Light ---cat

Hi Shorty,

After reading your post, and the replies it has thus received, I thought I'd chip in with a few comments of mine own. My first thought is to wonder why someone as young as yourself at the beginning of their adult-life, should be thinking about its conclusion; but then I remembered that I was pondering upon death even earlier. Not upon death, per se, but like you, wondering if there was a continuation, or was it simply a case of fading into total oblivion?

Many accept this world to be a plane of learning for spirit. A plane of 'being' in which the rough and the smooth of the physical life experience imbues an appreciation of others on the same journey (they suffer the same storms and calms as one does) . Many again, accept the life experience as a means for the 'part' to  find a way to re-assimilate back into the 'Whole' (whatever you consider this 'Whole' to be, God, Source, Universal Conscious, etc). If you do not follow one of the ritualistic doctrines of one of the so-called 'organised' religions (as I don't), it can leave one feeling disconnected, bewildered, aimless, and unsure of perceiving a meaning to one's life.

Man is a spiritual being (having an 'inner' and 'outer' conscious experience), and as well as seeking meaning to his physical life experience - the why and wherefore of it, he also seeks meaning to its ending. By possessing the attribute of memory, he is able to look back to the earlier parts of his life, and by the same attribute, he is able to anticipate intuitively forward to the later parts, perhaps in the calm moments reflecting upon the day when his life will terminate. Ergo, it is natural that he might ask questions of his mortality, and in the asking seek some comforting enlightenment that will help to ease his anxious mind.

You have received good advice from the earlier posters, and their advice carries the common theme of 'seek and ye shall find'; I'll echo their sentiments by counseling you to seek life, for therein lay your answers. They will not be answers of definity, but of realisations, inklings of a post-mortem continuation within a brighter, more loving Consciousness. Whatever you discern that Consciousness to be, might depend upon what you encounter throughout your life, for experiences will come upon you thick and fast. They will test and challenge you, worry and trouble you, but as they do, in all of them is a growth and shaping that will help to mould the man you will come to be.

Remember always, the counsel Polonius offered to his son Laertes, "..to thine own 'self' be true..", and by this you will come to know the purpose of life as inscribed above the temple entrance in New Dehli...'Know Thy Self'! It is a covenant we all make as we step into existence.

As a rather famous Mr. Spock often stated...'Live long and prosper'.

Regards