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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