In the beginning there was darkness. Then there was light. Then there was consciousness. Then there were questions and then there was religion. Why are we? Where do we come from? Why does the world and nature act as it does? What happens when we die? The movie “Flatliners”, looked to explore this.
"Today is a good day to die!" says Nelson, an ambitious and fame-seeking medical student. Recruiting four other students for a daring, arrogant experiment in which they plan to see what lies beyond life, they take turns stopping their hearts until the monitors that read their vital signs indicate nothing but flat lines: i.e., they are dead. Minutes later, the other team members, armed with an array of medical equipment, step in to revive them.

Each student has a different reason for wanting to take part in the secret experiment. Rachel, contemplating her deceased father, wants to make sure that when you die you're going to a good place.

Nelson, an egomaniac, wants to die and come back with the answers to life and death, because he believes that philosophy and religion have failed, so it is now up to the physical scientists. However, soon after his life-after-death experience, the supernatural begins to intrude violently upon his reality through strange occurrences and shadowy characters who tell him, "In the end, we all know what we've done."

Joe, the promiscuous womanizer, begins to have negative experiences, too, after he dies and is revived. His sexual conquests come back to haunt him, as he has to face what he has done to the young women who trusted him.

David goes under next, and a schoolmate he scorned and laughed at during childhood later materializes to give him the same treatment. The last to take a peek at the afterlife is Rachel, whose near-death journey returns her to childhood to relive her dad's traumatic suicide. She is subsequently hounded