Afterlife

concept of afterlife has been studied throughout many religions for centuries. Islam, a religion practiced 1.8 billion people around the world. It has a concept of after-life, which teaches the continued existence of the soul and a transformed physical existence after death . In my essay, I intend to discuss Islam’s concept of the afterlife with a summary of stages involved and will focus on the overall influence it provides to the believers in this life. Islam explains the concept of afterlife…

The afterlife is referred to as the remaining human life that exists after an individual’s death. Scheffler uses this in a thought experiment in which a person is asked to imagine that he will live a normal life span. However, thirty days after his death, the earth, along with humanity and any other form of life on earth, would be destroyed. Scheffler argues that certain activities, such as cancer research, all forms of art, and procreation, are considered to matter or are motivated by the idea…

The afterlife is a concept present in some major world religions. Two include Christianity and Islam, which are two major world religions. I have always been interested in the relationship of these two religions, and wanted to know more in depth about how they compare. And so after reading Angela Sumegi’s book Understand Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions, I became fascinated with how the afterlives compared in Christianity and Islam. The afterlife…

As I explore the practices of afterlife in Hinduism, I will look at Karma, Samsara, and Moksha. Karma plays an important role in what devout Hindus follow and how they make their decisions. Samsara is a repeating cycle that continues in a person's life cycle and is affected by the decisions made during their lifetime. In this paper, I will argue that the most significant point of Hinduism is breaking the cycle of samsara to achieve moksha. In order to do this, I will explore the concepts of…

the community had different opinions about life after death and reincarnation. When he speaks to some of the adults in the Japanese community they told him that people are reincarnated or fine peace in the afterlife. Matthews explains that there is a major difference between the afterlife and…

The Afterlife dreamt about is synonymous to the Christian belief of heaven for those who were good or hell for those who are bad. To pass onto the afterlife required weighing of the heart which symbolises moral righteousness. If the person lived a sin free life, his heart will weigh the same as the ma’at feather and he would be allowed to pass on to the afterlife but if he did not pass the test of righteousness, he was devoured by the demon Ammut into oblivion. However, Christian believe that…

say they had awareness afterward and somewhat knew what was going on around them like they could distinctly remember things being said even though they had been pronounced clinically dead. Most scientists would probably say that the concept of an afterlife is either nonsense, or at the very least unprovable. Yet one expert claims he has evidence to confirm an existence beyond the grave - and it lies in quantum physics. Lanza, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina,…

War. Through Homer's Iliad and Odyssey has mentioned the possible existence and access of the Afterlife through rituals as expressed by Achilles in the Iliad after he received a premonition of his cousin Patroclus after he had not completed his funeral right and could not move forward to the realm of the dead. Homer’s Odyssey Book XI raises several important themes about the presentation of the Afterlife in Greek mythology during Homeric times. In Book XI readers see another step and obstacle…

have evolved over the years, but the perpetual emphasis on the eternal afterlife in the coveted destination that all ancient Egyptians strived to reach: The Field of Reeds, the Egyptian paradise, did not change. Many theories have argued that the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with death, whereas in fact it displayed an obsession with life and its continuation. This paper seeks to justify the Egyptian perception of afterlife as an eternal mirror image of one's life on earth; Egyptian’s earthly…

My research topic is titled ‘The Afterlife: The Perspective from Different Religions’. What is the concept of the afterlife? What is the afterlife? These are the questions that may come up in one’s mind every now and then; however, this worry may not concern some people because they believe that there is no life after death. My culture and values believe in ‘the great beyond’ and also as Johnson points out in Walters (2005) interview "Heaven doesn't exist, hell doesn't exist. We weren't alive…