Life After Death Essay

Of all human stages of development and transition, none of them has profound effect and overwhelming disturbance as death. The surviving members of the deceased’s family and other close loved ones are always at a loss and the grieving that ensues thereafter is of untold emotional torment (Sherman et al., 2003). On the spiritual perspective, death is mourned with the recluse and thought of continuance of life after death. Death is increasingly being viewed as a rite of passage and is not a finality as previously perceived in the preceding ages of our current generations. However, this perspective is speculative in nature for there is no living human being that has marched on with the personal study of the afterlife and come back to life in human …show more content…
It is a research that presents the different arguments that have been brought forward with regards to death. It goes without saying that death is a universal human experience but societal responses towards death are different. Certain factors influence the ways in which different communities or groups of people react with regards to death. The research will focus on determining the conceptualizations of death from the Eastern Orthodox perspective and also from the medieval perspective. This paper will also seek to relate the similarities and the differences of the two perspectives taking keen interest in their …show more content…
Since the dead were gone, there is perceived that there is no need to focus on the dead. In turn focusing on those that are left behind is held in high regard for they still have a life to lead. The dead were assumed to be living a new form of life elsewhere and were never going to come back to the living. It was therefore a futile attempt to purport to be interceding for the dead rather than focusing on building a virtuous life that would be rewarded afterwards (Zohar & Noham,