Essays on Life After Death

View of After Life is one of the most important parts of religious beliefs. Every religion, first of all, is based on such categories as nature of God, view of human nature, view of good and evil, view of salvation and, of course, views of the afterlife. In my mind, it is really interesting how the view of afterlife affects the people’s everyday life. It is the basic part of the religion. The most of the other things that connected with religion are proceed from the View of After Life. As an example, we will take Christianity. In ...

After analyzing the monuments of art, handed down to us from a distant era of the ancient Egyptian civilization, we can definitely identify the two main themes in the art of Egypt in the period around the IV millennium BC to 332 BCE. This is the theme of power and the theme of death. The power of the Pharaoh over the borders of Egypt, the Egyptian state supremacy over the neighboring tribes and kingdoms became firmly established. The question was how to combine it with the death, which is the worst thing that awaits man? It is not possible ...

For all my colleagues, I would like to discuss how the behavior of each of the members of the conversation at an office affected the end result of the conversation. Firstly, communication is supposed to be a back and forth process and each person involved in a setting for making a decision, needs to participate, voice their opinion and they are heard. Similarly, other people in that setting need to listen to the speaker while they are talking so that a message is conveyed properly. When everyone sat down with one person at the board jotting down the ideas ...

This paper considers the shared ideas among Homer, Dante Alighieri, Virgil, and the anonymous writer of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The idea of paradise and hell, right, and wrong, retribution, and reward are evident in the texts with some of them bearing a close resemblance to each other. For the conclusion, there will be an analysis of how the authors’ perceptions echo in present-day societies. Perhaps the most common theme availed in all the reading is pride. In the texts, pride dominates the actions of the heroes and even propels some to act irrationally for the sake ...

Summary

According to philospher Justice in Swerissen and Duckett article a good death is about how individuals wish to die and reasons on the cause of good death. It makes pain life experiences to these people and family responses to the issue of terminating his life to avoid more pschological and cycological stress. The communirty at large has arole to play in ensuring that these patients are highly protected and care. Education and setting good standards for health services ensures that good life ending for these patients and their preferences maintained. A good death is one where an individual decides ...

Epicurus viewed death as annihilation. He observed that people fear death because they think they will have unpleasant life after death. He says this fear can be removed when a personal understands death as an annihilation since the atoms that make life disperse after death. He thinks that death is neither harmful for the people who are living nor to the dead. This, he argues, is because the living are not dead while the dead do not exist. He also thinks that when people anticipate death it is erroneous for them and irrational since there is no life after ...

Dante's Inferno is considered an epic allegory about an individual's journey through hell. There are a total of nine circles located within the Earth that are explored by Dante Alighieri. Each encompasses the concept of death, among other subjects. Alighieri explores death as a punishment for sin. One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories and folk tales that offer a variety of themes and narratives. From themes such as justice to that of death, each of the stories are dramatic, suspenseful and are spread across numerous fictional genres. One key theme in the collection is death. ...

Part One

The worldview refers to a theory of the world which is used understand life. In other words, worldview refers to a mental model of reality that provided answers to various life questions through providing a framework of attitudes and ideas about life, ourselves and the world. Therefore, it creates a comprehensive system of beliefs.

Part Two

Question One According to Genesis (1:1-2), the bible accounts that God created earth and heaven. However, there was no life yet. The bible further acknowledges that God created all that is on earth through the account of creation, as detailed in Genesis 1, in six ...

The Lord of Death, in the Indian epic of Mahabharata, asked his son about the most astounding aspect of the present world. The boy responded, “It is that all around us people can be dying and we don’t believe it can happen to us” (Halifax 6). Such typical refusal to accept death’s inevitability is particularly common in the modern Western society. Generally, the mainstream philosophers shunt any interest in paranormal matters like spirit possession, extra-sensory perceptions, spirit mediumship, reincarnation, and out-of-body experiences into the dark corners of their profession (Hales 335). Eminent philosophers like Antony Flew and ...

Introduction

Use of colors is vast and are applied in a different field for various purposes. The uses of color did not come into existence in the near past, but its use began centuries ago. There is a different example where colors are useful like in medical therapy, and it is critical in assisting the patient depending on the problem the patient is having. However, the use of the color is not universal as each and every community has different utilization and understanding of different colors. However, there is a global phenomenon denoted by individual colors worldwide. For instance, red ...

Question 1

It is true that many religious traditions frequently make “truth- claims” about after life beliefs, nature of universe reality, and moral structure of human condition. Therefore, this essay focuses on three traditions, which have conflicting differences in truths that they claim. These religious traditions include Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism. The essay discusses how people in these traditions understand these truths, the differences among these three traditions in this respect, and the similarities that exist alongside these differences. Starting with Christianity religious tradition, it is worth to not that it is among the largest world religions. Christians believe ...

In today’s society, the issue of life after death forms the basis for a number of debates. At one point or the other, everyone wonders at what happens after they die. Christians, in general, believe that there is life after death. They believe that there are two places that the soul goes after a person dies, and this depends on the ways in which Christian follow the moral teachings of the Bible. While the various Christian groups believe that when an individual dies, there is hell for those who continuously disregard the Commandments and the teachings of the Bible, they ...

In the theory, Miller believes in the life after death and seems relatively unconcerned of anybody death. Miler in an argument tries to define a person where she describes the existence of a person in the future due to unavoidable fact that her body will shortly decompose, she rejects this description. According to Miller theory of personal identity, says that any person would be the same person in the future, as the person would not have changed but remain the sameness. A counter provided by Miller is that there being a soul, mind or self across time is identical across time basis ...

You Can’t Take It With You by George Kaufman and Moses Hart is a comedic play that shows how people have shallow understanding of life and how these people hold primitive thoughts about the actuality of life. It is also a play that seeks to make take life as it is and enjoy it when they still can. The play offers descriptive and episodic events inform of dialogue. While the story triggers philosophical thoughts about life and human existence, the characters in the play engages in happiness madness citing that they do so while they still can because once they ...

Religious differences between Islam and Christianity have existed since the ancient days of human kind. The reason behind such differences can be explained by the ideological distinction between the two worldviews. The existence of one is seen as a threat to the other: as the bible says in Exodus 34:14 that you shall worship no other god for the Lord. However, there are some unique instances of similarities in which the two worldviews preach to their believers. In this concern, there are many positives to take from what the two worldviews project in the life on earth. This essay will ...

Reflections drawn upon the reading of the play ‘Everyman’ as far as the issue of Death is concerned– Analysis and Presentation in detail of the author’s perception of Death and the treatment of the issue of Death on his behalf in the play ‘Everyman’ [The author’s name]

This research paper is to present you with the reflections drawn upon the reading of the play ‘Everyman’ in terms of the way Death is treated in this play on behalf of his author. The mentality of the author concerning the issue of Death as depicted in this particular ...

The exploratory man expects nothing around a soul with the exception that it is a stream of awareness existing separated from the physical form. How it may exist, man does not ask, until he is persuaded that there is proof of its actual existence, and afterward an expansive number of partnered issues emerge (Inbar, par.2). Death is a subject which is of the deepest concern to everybody. One day or another, all must pass on. The fear of death surrounds the lives of all individuals. It carries impressively unnecessary distress, enduring and uneasiness to the survivors who are on edge to think ...

In Christian way of life, people commonly use the word myth for tiers parable, falsehood, and fibber. Reliant on the conception tiers fables and desecration conveyed disparity that would unfavorably influence many people. People realized that life interpretation is genuine to the creation stories. Creation stories and myths affect people’s understanding in diverse ways. This is because people tend to belief mostly on weather updates of experts in their field of specialization forgetting its part of creation and weather experts cannot examine the exact results at times they get expected results but not at all. This is because ...

According to Lopez (2010) Christians believe in life after death. The holy, those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and have repented of their sins, will go to live in happiness with God, Jesus, the angels, and the fathers of Christianity. They will be delivered of all suffering and live in harmony with all other creatures such as wild animals. Their body will be transformed. There is also a hell for those who will not have accepted salvation. They will be subjected to eternal fire, suffering from no end. According to Bainton (2000) Catholics believe in purgatory, a ...

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One of the major concepts of Confucianism is “Jen” and in Confucianism, Jen is what makes individual an individual. It is what gives self its humanity and dignity. In Confucianism, the concept of self is not an isolated one. In Confucians teaching, it is not possible to be an individual without the society and the concept of the self emerges only in the relation to others. Confucianism gives much more value to the whole society rather than individualism as it considers individuals to be a constituent of society instead of isolated objects. Confucianism propagates strong hierarchical order and persuades individuals to ...

Introduction

Is there a life after death? This is one of the questions that most people in the world have been asking themselves for years. The survival of consciousness after death is a very complex situation for most people in the world. This is the reason why it has been discussed by many philosophers as well as other people in the world. According to the researches that have been conducted by the scientist is that, they believe that the consciousness and the mind are connected in that the they functioning of how the brain works even after death (Stanislav Grof & Marjorie). The ...

Introduction

The pyramids of Egypt are undeniably full of mysteries, especially regarding how they were managed to be built. However, it seems easier to focus on the number of pyramids, instead of their architecture or engineering, because of the existence of historical texts and archaeological data found within these pyramids that could explain their purpose (Rawlison & Gilman 59-67). Most historians and scientists agree that the pyramids were made as a monument for a deceased pharaoh. The pyramids would serve as the ruler’s palace in the afterlife, so they were made with highly decorated rooms and passages filled with worldly possessions. ...

There are numerous and outstanding philosophers who have contributed to the field of philosophy and in particular on issues relating to religion. Sigmund Freud is a man who has been variously described by other scholars. Peter Gay in the biographical introduction of ‘The Future of an Illusion’ describes Freud as an atheist, who is fully convinced about the idea, and demonstrates a high degree of consistency and aggressiveness in atheism. In his book The Future of an Illusion wrote in 1927, Sigmund Freud describes various aspects relating to religion, its origin, development and the future. In essence, Freud observes religion as ...

The Qin emperor, Shihuangdi, was perhaps the most prominent emperor throughout the Chinese history. Ying Zheng invented the title Shi Huang Di, which means ‘first emperor’, because he believed that he was superior, compared to the kings of other states of China. During his reign, he unified Chinese policies and culture through standardization of written language and bureaucracy. Furthermore, he aspired to live forever and rule eternally. Some scientists believed that Huang Di was obsessed with the idea of immortality that was why he had done peculiar things in search for an eternal life (Shank, 2009). Shi Huang ...

Over many centuries, there has been a lot of credence concerning about where do our soul be gone after death or many people referred this as “life after death”. This topic has caused a huge amount of controversy, and has been strongly debated over many years. Clarence Darrow, who has been believed to be an atheist claimed that it is hard to believe that a soul exists after death simply there is no one who has taken a journey to the afterlife and come back to tell us about it. What Clarence forgets is that life after death is completely about taking a journey ...

Explain the Buddhist Anatta (no-self) doctrine and discuss whether it is compatible with the Buddhist doctrine of rebirth. What difficulties might the combination of these two doctrines generate? Buddhism is one of the oldest religions in the world. Christianity is younger on five centuries, while Islam formed twelve centuries after it. Buddhism has created a unique culture, having first appeared more than two and a half thousand years ago in India as a religious philosophical teaching. Buddhism can be seen as a religion, philosophy, ideology. It is a cultural complex, a certain way of life, and a path of spiritual development. According to Mark Siderits, “ ...

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Culture and Society

According to Zion and Kozleski (2005), culture refers to “The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to interact with their world and with one another” (p. 3). With regard to the given understanding of culture, a person’s environment provides the essential cementing in the creation and adoption of principles in life. In other words, every human being has ideologies that navigate him or her in life and eventually, said person’s comprehension of death. The aforementioned ideologies are the ...

Confucianism is a belief that is greatly valued and taken to be as more of a religion in Asian countries. These ethical beliefs were developed by the Chinese philosopher called Confucius. The founder of the Confucianism did not intend to create a new religion as he developed these moral virtues, but he rather wanted to expand on the dying Zhou religion. These ethical beliefs were developed during the spring and autumn period. Confucianism was later incorporated into the state as an ideology. Despite the impact Confucianism had on the regions where it was exposed, the founder Confucius was not well known. Confucius ...

The possibility of an afterlife

- Brief summary of the topic The fundamental question in the discussion of the afterlife is what that life will look like. When a person dies, the body becomes incapable of movement, though the body does not just disintegrate. In the Book of Psalms, chapter 104, verse 29, it is stated that it is God who gives life, and is also the one who takes that life away. Burying the remains of the person generally is done when the body is placed into a cave or pit, where the remains of the person will join the remains of the other ...

Season one of The Walking Dead introduces the viewers to a messy society. In the first season, one man tries to reunite with his family. However, his wife begins a relationship with another man, which prompts death. The episodes in the first season introduce the viewer to various characters featured in the film. People appear from the dead and live like zombies. The zombies in the series can bite and convert human beings into a zombie. This paper focuses on two characters from the first season, Shane and Rick. The paper compares and contrasts their roles as presented in the film. Furthermore, ...

Contrary to the many supernatural beings or deities worshipped by pagans or other atheists, God has been described as the only true being that controls and gives life. It gets complicated when one attempts to prove this fact since religion is heavily based on belief. The bible does not at any point define the word God. Our working definition therefore is based on what has been described in the bible and other journals that give a description. Despite not emphasizing on the definition of the word God, the bible is full of description of his actions which portray this supernatural ...

Introduction

One of the outstanding collections of contemporary art is the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) which was founded in 1964 in New York City immediately after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell tied knot. Being one of the largest privately owned contemporary art collections, the RFC showcases its collections in a 45,000 square foot warehouse owned by former Drug Enforcement Agency. The museum of RFC comprises 27 galleries, a film and lecture theatre, a research library with more than 40,000 volumes, a media room, a gift shop, a book store and a sculpture garden. The collection which is open for public view since 1996 features ...

Introduction

Some of the most interesting ideas about afterlife come from the ancient Chinese culture and the Buddhist religion. The close relationship between Chinese culture and Buddhism provides some intriguing insights into heaven and hell. Although Buddhism was introduced into China from India, some of the values of the Indian culture were not easy to understand, and this facilitated the modification of teachings of Buddha to fit the Chinese traditions and practices. The end result was Chinese Buddhism that was unique in some aspects. According to the Chinese Buddhists, death does not signify the end of life rather it is a ...

Presentation and Analysis of the author’s perception of death and the way death is treated as an issue in the play ‘Everyman’ [The author’s name]

Thesis statement

This paper is to present you with the issue of death and the way it is analyzed and presented to the readers and / or audience of the play ‘Everyman’. The way death is approached as an issue on behalf of the writer of the paly – who still nowadays remains anonymous - is mainly ironic and lies in the historical and sociological background of the year it was written. The ...

Article review

The article gives us an overview of the sleeping Eros, which is a Greek goddess of love. Since the discovery of the sculpture, it was transported and put in a museum. People from all walks of life travel just to behold how the original image looks like. This has also seen the modification of the sculpture as many artists come up with what they believe is a modern representation of the goddess. The sleeping Eros has been reproduced through paintings, wood and stone carvings and placed at strategic areas. Apart from its archaeological significance, it also has spiritual significance to the Romans ...

NATURE OF THE WORLD

WHY MATERIALISM AND IDEALISM DO NOT FIT CHRISTIAN DUALISM Metaphysics: Nature of the World Why Materialism and Idealism Do Not Fit Christian Dualism Materialism and idealism from a metaphysical point of view remain outside the belief of Christian dualism because of the lack of spiritual context of these two perspectives of the nature of the world. History reveals without a social expression of the understanding of Divine Law civilizations held little stability. Of all the civilizations embracing the ideal of Divine Law including Vedic India, Sumer, and Egypt, it is Christianity who "more than any other civilization seemed ...

Communication

Life and death understanding Life is the basic existence of humankind. The mere action of human beings in light of breathing and performing normal societal actions define life. The concept of life is a processional phenomenon that starts at the fertilization of a sperm and an ovum. The embryo undergoes a prenatal phase, peri natal phase and a postnatal phase, which is the longest external affiliation of humankind. As the development heightens, the person creates experiences through life activities, actively and circumstantially designed by the society. The final phase of human life occurs when a person stops breathing and the body functions stop ...

Introduction

In Columbia, men of the middle and upper class have always been protective and paternal towards their dependents. They have also been conscious of sheltering their wives and children from undesirable influence that might come from outside their family teachings and values. However, the poor families have not been left behind in maintaining honor in the Columbian society (Anselmi p. 32). Women’s activities in Columbia are severely circumscribed since the men are majorly concerned with protecting virtue and honor of their unmarried daughters and wives. In the ancient Columbian society, women were not allowed to do any work ...

No one can clearly articulate the feeling that one experiences at death. While many people have a fear for death, there are many people who have come back from experiences that are close to death. These people who have had near death experiences have told pleasant experiences of life after death. For many people who have experienced these near death phenomenons, they have an unquestionable and steady belief on the presence of life after death (Hoof, p. 132). However, scientists believe that near death experiences are merely hallucinations produced by dying brains that are comparable to vivid dreams. In my ...

Death is the expression of life. It has a double sense and a double meaning in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. The funeral ceremony, mourning, revenging, talking with ghosts or committing suicidal acts represent passages in the circularity of life, based on various cultural or religious beliefs. The Christian tradition implies a funeral ceremony for the dead people. Hamlet’s father did not benefit of such a ceremony after he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, who later took his throne and his wife. Nevertheless, prince Hamlet is permanently mourning him through his acts, through his perceived madness, illusory estate, and mixed thoughts: revenging ...

Introduction

Zoroastrianism, which is sometimes referred to as Mazdaism and Magianism, is a religion and religious that was found in Iran in the ancient times. At one point in time it was made a state religion in Iran and it has an estimated population of around 140,000 to 200,000. It is the religion that gave birth to most of the formal religions and has influenced other religions, which came thereafter like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Besant, 2003 p. 57).

The absolute

Zoroastrianism holds that Ahura Mazda, the eternal, holy and truth is the alpha and omega who made all things that can ...

Introduction

Life after death is one of the issues that remain a mystery to human beings. Science does not have a clear basis or theory that supports the idea that there is life after death. The afterlife is a concept that many people have tried to study and find elaborate answers to no avail. Scientists and other scholars have been able to make tremendous progress in dealing with many other issues that face human life such as diseases, protection against natural calamities and the likes. However, dealing with or doing away with death has remained an impossible task for mankind. The only valid ...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead has, as its original title, Reu nu pert em hru; translated to English, it means The Chapters of coming forth by day. This book is, essentially, a series of chapters that consist of magic spells and special formulas, which are all written in papyrus. Such collection of texts for funerary purposes began to be found around 1600 BC in Egyptian tombs. It is suppose that these texts, that gathered such spells and formulas, would be used by the deceased ones, throughout their Underworld journey. While in this journey in the Underworld, the dead ...

Literature Review

Abstract This literature review paper focusses on the subject of the role of dreams and the relationship between those dreams and hope. For this purpose three readings of different genres have been selected, to see what and how the three writers have expressed their dreams. The three pieces of literature under study are, a poem called ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake, Martin Luther’s speech ‘I have a dream’ and the speech by Abraham Lincoln, popularly known as the ‘Gettysburg Address’. ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake addresses the issue of child labor and the social oppression that a ...

Taoism and Confucianism are some of the religions that are found in china. They are believed to be having emerged at the same period in history. The two philosophies are similar in many ways even though they differ greatly. Confucianism believes in one God who they worship. However, they worship ancestors through offering sacrifices to them. They cannot be said to be monotheists. They usually worship their God in temples. All the followers of the religion are expected to worship in the temple. They allow the use of statues and pictures in the places of worship and areas ...

Turkey is one of the famous Islamic regions in the world. It harbors the most of the largest mosques worldwide. Georgia is a state found in the south--eastern location of the United States. Georgia’s largest population consists of protestant Christians. Christians in Georgia can be generally grouped into various religious affiliations like the Presbyterians, Catholics, Methodists, Pentecostals and Baptists. (Schultz, 47). The two varying religious groups are bound by different religious cultures. Culture can be defined as a group or a society where the members have a common way of living and thinking. Religion is viewed as part of culture. Understanding the ...

Islam, Judaism and Christianity are popular religions across the world. Martin (3) noted that these religions represent almost half of the world’s religious believers, with Christianity and Islam coming first and second on the world’s most popular religions respectively. They have some features in common, but continue to fall into conflict often just like it has been throughout their history. This paper has two parts. First, it notes the common elements to all the three religions. In the second part, it evaluates both historical and contemporary conflicts with respect to these religions, and the efforts that have ...

Socrates and the essence of the soul

For Socrates, it was imperative for a man, when in living his life, to give importance and emphasis to enrich his soul rather than his body. The thesis of this reading is that Man becomes a better person when he pursues not worldly desires but the virtuous life. By striving to seek the good over the evil, the right against the wrong, he becomes a well-rounded person, and become wise in his ways. For these were the essence of the soul or the most important elements in Man’s quest for and the achievement of immortality. In hindsight, it is like ...

It has many acceptances, people perceive it in different ways, there are various stories around it, but one thing is certain: nobody can escape it. This is death, the final event in people’s lives, one that cannot be avoided. The current paper treats different perspectives about death, as expressed in the works of Dylan Thomas (Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night), Wislawa Szymblorska (“On Death without Exaggeration”), Mary Oliver (“When Death Comes”), and John Donne (“Death Be Not Proud”). One’s existence on earth includes several stages from the moment when he is born until ...

Introduction

The heavenly Christmas Tree is a book by Fyodor Dostoyevski which highlights the story of a poor boy just after his mothers death. The pain of having to overcome the death of her mother on Christmas Eve as well as obtaining his necessities makes his day both hard and unbearable. To add pain to all this, nobody seems to care about him as he is encountered with negative reactions at all places he visits. The thought of how different the situation would have been if his mother were alive brings him fantasies, which are only fulfilled in his death. There is a ...

The Invention of Lying

With language and power, one is capable of achieving his/her goals just like Mark Bellison, since he does not have the power “due to his looks and unsuccessful financial situation”, Mark lies to the Bank teller that he has $800 in his account instead of $300 boosting his financial status thereby making him able to be accepted by Anna. This shows us how someone’s ability to communicate can help him/her gain some form of power or influence that he may want. There are several other instances in the movie whereby we see Mark using language to get what ...

The Epistles

The passages in I Corinthians 15:12-34 and I Thessalonians 4:13-18 has some culture and history that brings its self out. First, there is a belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus as the son of God. A certain belief precludes that God exists and is able to raise people from death as he did to Jesus. The practice of baptizing people on behalf of the dead is also a followed culture according to the passages. The people referred to in this are also seen to believe that God will also raise those who fall asleep in that is those who ...

Introduction

Death is the cessation of life or the termination of biological functions sustaining a living organism. Causes of death include: malnutrition, accidents and predation. Death has for a very long period of time been a central concern of the world’s traditions both religious and philosophical. Belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has a central aspect of religious belief.

Themes of Death and How They Compare to a Modern Epic of Gilgamesh, the Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest books which are still in use today. The influences of this book are still being seen in many modern works today. ...