Death can be a powerful influence over our religious beliefs. After my first friend died, I convinced myself that he was somewhere in an afterlife even though I had never believed in one before. When my second friend died, I convinced myself there ust be a higher power directing our fate, because I didn't want to believe I had lost two good friends due to the random circumstances of life. Once the emotions I felt from the trauma wore off, I realized that I simply believed because that's what I needed.
Death is merely the cessation of our biological functions and nothing more. It can be difficult to deal with and some people cope by putting an intentional cause behind it. All in all, death is just the ultimate reason to make the most of life.
Death is merely the cessation of our biological functions and nothing more. It can be difficult to deal with and some people cope by putting an intentional cause behind it. All in all, death is just the ultimate reason to make the most of life.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
