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Las Vegas businessman offers $ 1 million for proof of life after death

A Las Vegas businessman is offering nearly $ 1 million to answer one of history's eternal questions: "Is there life after death?" Robert Bigelow thinks he knows the answer, but he wonders if you know writes Pix11.

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Robert Bigelow does not skimp on why he is running the competition: “Personally, I don’t need to be convinced. All this is not about that at all. It's not about me. "

The question is as old as human life itself. What happens when we die? Where are we going? Will we come back?

Believers are convinced that they know the answer, but Robert Bigelow is not looking for the spiritual, he wants proof. He is looking for science.

“We're looking for more commentary based on an evidence-based approach,” Bigelow says. “Witnesses matter.”

Bigelow finds it important enough that he invests nearly a million dollars of his personal fortune in prize money for any qualified candidate who submits an essay of 25 words or less with the best evidence of "survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death."

Lesley Keane is one of five judges for the competition.

“This will shock the scientific world. It will change our understanding of the reality we live in,” she says.

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Keen is the accomplished author of several books of his own, including Surviving Death: A Journalist Explores the Evidence for the Afterlife, based on the six-part Netflix documentary of the same name.

“You know, there is a lot of evidence. This suggests that consciousness, as we know it, may function independently of the brain. Whether or not it survives death, there is plenty of evidence to suggest it will. However, I don't think we will ever have 100% proof. And maybe it’s better if we don’t find out,” says Keane.

Bigelow understands the space business; it is collaborating with the space program to develop expandable living quarters for the ISS and other projects. He is able to finance Bigelow Aerospace in large part due to his extensive real estate holdings, including Budget Suites of America. But Bigelow's passion has always been connected with the unexplained - UFOs and paranormal phenomena.

“This is beyond the five senses with which we are familiar. This is beyond all physics, there is no explanation for this. So our physics is very, very incomplete. Extremely incomplete,” Bigelow adds.

“If there really is an afterlife, it reframes everything we think about what we do here,” says Gard Jameson, a professor of philosophy at UNLV. Jameson discusses existential questions throughout his lessons and philosophy studies, but he's not afraid to quote physics.

“Everything we know from the second law of thermodynamics is conserved. Whether it's a material, a body, the energy of that body, or whatever, if the laws of physics dictate that everything happens in one form or another," Jameson says.

This brings us back to Bigelow's question, in no small part prompted by the recent death of his wife.

“I would say I had a renewed interest because of my wife’s death, but I was very interested in it in the 1980s,” Bigelow says.

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Candidates for the competition are not allowed to quote from Scripture, but research on the topic may lead to conclusions with familiar religious connotations.

“I really think there will be no evidence. I mean, solid evidence that there is an afterlife. I think the point of this is to get the strongest possible evidence,” Keane says.

The Bigelow competition has already begun and will take most of the year to determine the winners and, perhaps, find the answer to the most important question in life.

“I like the phenomenal aspects, those are the two holy grails. What happens to you after you die is the first Holy Grail. And secondly, are we alone? says Bigelow.

Applications are now being reviewed. To find out how you can participate, see the competition rules here. The application deadline is February 28th.

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