afterlife
If there is one constant in this world, it would surely be death. Dying is an unavoidable part of life. Indeed, everything that lives will at sometime die. The fear of death is held by everyone. Perhaps it is the correlation of death with pain or the unknown state of the human consciousness after death, maybe a combination of both, that creates this fear. The fear felt is undoubtedly universal, however, the ways in which it is dealt with are varied and diverse. The concept of human mortality and how it is dealt with is dependent upon one s society or culture. For it is the society that has great impact on the individual s beliefs. Hence, it is also possible for other cultures to influence the people of a different culture on such comprehensions. The primary and traditional way men and women have made dying a less depressing and disturbing idea is though religion. Various religions offer the comforting conception of death as a begining for another life or perhaps a continuation for the former. Christians, for example, believe that souls that have lived by the words of their God will exist eternally in heaven as divine beings themselves. This conception of an afterlife is generally what we people who are
existance is revolved around God and that good deeds will bring people closer to perfection. by the past. Such a future is boundless and exciting and at the same time frightening. The world accelerating and accumilating momentum to the present, it is logical and rational thought that has eased human fear of death. Philosophers and critical thinkers have deduced that death is a contained increasingly ironic and torturous punishments. These levels corresponded to the Epic of Gilgamesh. The death of the protagonist s friend, Enkidu, allows the reader a glimpse life. Looking at what little literature that has been found which has been writen by the less and less useful to the people of today. People who desire a definite answer. Hence, the come about. Starting from Ancient Greece and continuing though the Renaissance then Death is dealt with differently by people of different cultures, but these cultures were in the future holds to be one without faiths. Cultural influence though religion and concepts of the
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