Death Persuasive Speech

Death is something that everyone knows is imminent. All humans, even religious ones, know for sure that death will come. This thought can be terrifying, as death means...the end. You, and everything about you, is now solely in the works and memories you have left behind before you die, you no longer have any control. All religions conjure some way to explain death and dying to their followers; for example, why we die, what comes after death, what to do to prepare yourself for death, etc. We will now explore these questions in accordance to different religions and set out to discover why we answer those questions in the way that we do. Within many religions, your place after you die depends on the work you did as a person before you died. In Christianity, most explain this as heaven or hell; in Hinduism, it’s your place on the caste system when you are reincarnated, etc. This pressure of, what I would call, the “heaven or hell” logic creates a sort of fear within humans. The divinity is one with the power to choose whether or not you were (for lack of a better term) “good” within your life on Earth. This logic is an extremely effective way of implementing the …show more content…
This leaves the question, is death a bad thing? Taking into account the possibility of a bad afterlife, death, according to religions, isn’t a bad thing. In fact, most religions address it as a very good thing. Religions like Buddhism associate the world we are living in now with desire and consequently, suffering. Death for Buddhists is a sort of break from the this material world, and acts as hope for a release from it (Nirvana). Religions like Islam and Christianity think of death as hope too. Death is their judgement, a time to hope for a promising afterlife. Of course, with the possibility of a bad afterlife, people of these religions may fear death too, but death still is portrayed with a comforting