Death is one thing that majority of us try to avoid but death is one of the few things that is promised. We all try to define and give our opinions on what death is but the true is no one will ever be able to clearly and accurately define the process. This is why I find death so fascinating. There is a substantial amount of questions about death but majority of those questions people can’t answer accurately.
Society teaches people to honor and acknowledge people more when they are dead. I was taught to never talk bad about a dead person and show respect for the dead. The passing of my great-grandmother was like someone sticking a dagger through my family’s heart. The matriarch of our family is now gone, what were we going to do without her? The day of her funeral there were such a massive amount of people there I was overwhelmed. This lead me to the question; why is it that people are respected and acknowledged more when they are dead?
After life is a significant part of our culture and is a significant part of every religion. Different religions have different ways of honoring someone after they are no longer alive. Some ways to honor or show respect to the dead are to have funerals and bury the dead body. Even though religions might have different views of what they should do with the body after the person is dead each religion believes that this body is sacred and holy. Why do people believe that the afterlife is extremely sacred if no one can clearly explain or express what the afterlife really is since they personally didn’t experience it nor know anyone who experienced it?
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