Do you think that after death someone can become a ghost if they want to?

Question

Assuming that there really is an afterlife and that ghost are real, do you think that a person who dies can choose to become one if they want to.

Answer 1

Until Barbara Walters has an interview with a ghost, one can only guess.

Maybe when we die it's like that movie Groundhog Day, where your life just keeps replaying itself over and over.

Answer 2

No!

Answer 3

The only reasons someone will become a ghost if they die, is if they died and unnatural death or were miserable before they died. The first type (unnatural) will probably go away as time passes, and if they have good guides that continually prod them to move on. The second however, can kind of permeate the environment. They believe they belong there and will stick around.  

Answer 4

I don't think we get a choice in if we become a ghost or not. Why would anyone want to be a ghost? I think our spirits get stuck in this world until our Messiah returns for the final judgement. (Please do not judge me...I am not judging you this is just my own personal view) and decide whether we go to heaven or h**l!

Answer 5

i'm sure they can choose whether they want to or not

Answer 6

yea but there is a difference and this is why...

A ghost is someone who has passed on and is "stuck" between the physical world and the Afterlife. They do not cross through The Light to go on to the Afterlife, but stick around in this "netherworld" for one reason or another.

A spirit is a person who has passed on, but has actually gone through The Light and into the Afterlife. There they go through a life review learning process, and after that, are able to come and go between the Afterlife and our physical world.

Spirits come back to watch over us, and to comfort us. Ghosts do not.  So I believe that they can choose to become a spirit and come back.

Answer 7

No.  People who pass away are left wondering the world if they will not move on.  Three days after death a soul will see a great light- that they are ment to walk through.  Souls who are afriad of leaving the world behind, may choose not to walk through the light.   People are frightned of what comes next, and what the light will lead them too.  As result they are left wondering the world knowing they do not belong there.  Souls can stray so far from the light that they do not know how to reach it.  They can be on earth for hundreds of years until they can find a person to help guide them home.  There are people on earth with a 6th sense who can communicate with people who pass on.  They are like a beacon of light in the darkness.  Spirits are drawn to them for help.  Once this person tells them to go through the light the light will reappear and they have a chance to move on and essentially go home to the creator.  But people can also be 'ghosts' as a form of pergatory. People who did wrong in their life can be sentenced to walk the earth until the end of time.  But the time period and the punishment varies depending on the person and what wrongs they did. Other "ghosts" (i'd rather call them spirits) are evil spirits that have escaped from h**l, and they are here solely to cause pain on others, some emotional pain, others physical.  The sad part is most people do not even know they are surrounded by these spirits because they are skeptical or do not have a strong faith.

Answer 8

Ghosts are energy I don't believe there is a choice.  Many places that are haunted provide the ghost with an anchor.  

Answer 9

Nothing in nature takes someone's desire into account, I don't see why this would be any different.

Answer 10

if their want is so great that it traps them yes. some people have unfinished business. others don't realize they're dead.