What happens to people after they die?
That question is the one that's asked from the perspective of someone who sees death as something foreign to themselves, but for those who have already died or had a near death experience, they would come to ask this question in a different way:
"Why did I choose to live?"
You see, after death, the after life may not have a physical space or flow of time, but it can still be experienced by the consciousness of a person's live energy.
To compare, the experiences 'there' feel more real than it does when living in the physical world with a working body, and for that reason, we keep our free will after death.
"What about our memories, what happens to them?"
You remember everything.
Every tiniest of detail from every lifetime, and on your journey to become a truly free spirit who is unbound by the impulses that memory has a grasp on the very soul of an individual, whether it be the impulse to overthink when one triggers a sense of insecurity when faced with someone he or she does not yet know how to fit into the context/intentions of their master 'plan', or the impulse to react irritably towards someone who debates against your own logic, these egos/karma is what holds a soul down to being able to master their own consciousness, and through that obtain more free will to make decisions, even in death.
While in death, 99% of the souls have the tendency or impulse to be reborn, this unconscious decision to come back to life is what some spiritual teachers refer to as, "The Cycle of Recurence", where as to make a clear definition away from the common understanding of the concept that is reincarnation, for the act of reincarnation can only be done consciously; nonimpulsive.
When the few 1% achieve mastery over their own consciousness within their lifetimes, their memories will be towards the impulses they desire to have within their next life, and that could be for various intentions, such as holding onto the tendency to seek greater knowledge, or the tendency to experience everything as purely as a child would without memory; despite the knowledge they carry.
If knowledge is no longer a burden for an individual, and they can remain true to themselves, childlike, free spirited, their intentions become very few, and they simply observe their relationship/sense-of-union to anything that they may experience within the present moment.
In that case, the last question to ask there is:
"What is there to experience after death?"
For those who remember the after life, the experience is great, but as for specific details, it's hard to comprehend while using the physical brain that holds back the enternal mind from being able to process such information, so it is only in death that this experience becomes clearer to understand for most.
However, there are masters, and these masters have been recognised and recorded into the spiritual teachings and religions.
Being masters, those on the path to enlightenment seek guidance from them while in life, and place their faith in their relationship with them even in death.
Below are some of the masters:
Jesus Christ
Arch Angel Michael
Lucifer
Buddha
Shiva
Zeus
Odin
There is a division and a hyerarchy that exists in the after life for the 1% of masters of consciousness, and the list above only includes those at the top of that hierarchy.
However, there is a divide within this hierarchy, such as the difference between angels and devils.
Because of this divide, conflict persists even in the after life, and a spiritual war goes on to this day between the greatest of masters who wish to make a move in their strategies when faced with the grand scheme of The Creator.
The Creator, as you would have guessed, is God, and no angel or devil is aware of God's grand scheme, only that there are certainties that can be responded to with their free will for whatever desire the individual may have.
However, for the greatest of masters, they are so powerful, so omniscient, that not only in the eyes of other masters of consciousness but also as a matter of fact, that they too are technically 'gods', equal to that of The Creator itself.
With this power, they become big pieces in God's grand scheme, despite them all having unique schemes of their own on the side of good or evil.
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This story is about the greatest master of them all, Arch Angel Michael, and his most recent life spent in reincarnation for the sake of gaining more knowledge about the human experience in his fight against Lucifer, his arch nemesis in both life and the after life.