Cultural Analysis On Death And The Afterlife

If there is constant in this world, it will definitely die. Death is an inevitable part of life. Indeed, everything in life will die at some point. Everyone is afraid of death. Perhaps it is a correlation between death and the unknown state of death and suffering causing death and the human conscious after death, perhaps the combination of the two. Fear is undoubtedly universal, but there are many ways to deal with it. The concept of human death and how it is handled depends on that person's society and culture.

Death is a deniable fact, but the interpretation of death depends on culture. The course topics are as follows. The world after death (or the world after death): treatment of corpses, funeral. In this course we will explore the answers to the problems of meaning of death in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Japan is a particularly interesting case as it has two major religious traditions, Buddhism and Shinto. These have very different views on the concept of death and the world after death. Especially when exploring death, Japanese themes include ancestral worship, funeral, cemetery, and brain death. Short stories and movies are used. Encourage students to take an excursion

The afterlife: the destiny of mankind after death (Smith and Green 1995: 31). The explanation of the afterlife depends on culture, history, geographical background (see the book of death in Egypt and the book of death of Tibet). In Oriental religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, reincarnation is the concept of the Hereafter. In the monotheism of Judaism, the debate about the world after Christianity and Islam after death requires that individuals enter heaven or hell according to God's judgment (Hinnells 1984: 25-26).

The ancient Egyptian culture has a complex belief about the death and post-mortem world that has been developed for thousands of years. The Egyptians will see a continuation of their secular life in the future; death is not a final state, but a transition period from the life cycle to the world of the dead from the life cycle. Egyptian faith includes a strict tomb and funeral to ensure that individuals continue to exist around the world. These customs include protecting the deceased's body. By mummification, the body became a new body destined to wake up again. People believe that the soul and personality of a deceased person remain in the body even after death, it is essential to protect the body. If there is no physical body, the soul will disappear.

In ancient Egypt, people believed that after the death, the destiny of the world after the death of a person depends on the hearts of people. During the mummification, the human heart is kept in the body so that it can enter the post-mortem world with the corpses. When it dies, God Anubis who passed away enters the underworld (Duat) which weighs the hearts of people to some extent against the wings of the goddess of women's order, truth, and justice. If the heart is heavier than the wing, which means that this person is worse than good, the mind is swallowed by Ammit, the devil in the head of the crocodile, the first half of the leopard's body, and the hippopotamus with the arm of the goat. When a person's heart is swallowed by Ammit, he dies with a second death and completely annihilates.