2006-11-08 20:21:36 · 12 answers · asked by Pup 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
YES! It also helps them cope with their inadequacies, deficencies, and wrong doings.
BUT it also helps people channel their energies into a proper direction.
2006-11-08 20:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by Ancient Forever Lost 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the JWs, mostly we didn't have funerals. I've never known one to be buried anywhere, but that is just my limited experience. When my parents pass away, they will each be cremated and the ashes disposed of, probably in the garden. There will be a come all memorial the next Saturday.
JWs don't see death as an end all, but merely a step in the process toward everlasting life on Earth after the second resurrection of Revelations. They don't mourn, and for the most part, neither do the children, as they know what's ahead. This can be disconcerting to school teach and others, who think there's something abnormal in not mourning a death for any length of time.
Simply put, they cope through the use of knowledge and knowing there is nothing to worry about if you should die. No worries about an eternal hell. You are either resurrected to everlasting life, or you're not. And if you're not, no one will even remember that you ever existed, as everything from the old system will no longer have any importance.
2006-11-09 05:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 4 false religions today.Each in ancient times was begun by a false god to gain slaves after death. What they teach is deceptive and there is little truth there,about life after death in the heavens , but there is enough truth woven into it to be of some small help to people who search for good, and ask for guidance and are detrmined to find it. . If you want the truth about heaven and the history of this planet earth, read Oahspe and learn a tremendous amount about life after death. It is written (1881) by angels of hundreds and thousands of years experience. It tells you how to live and prepare. It helps you cope with death. it helps you to understand just about anything you could ask pertaining to this planet.You can get or read a copy of Oahspe free on the net; print your own 900ish page copy. Or you can get a new paperback edition through a bookstore. Or you can get an larger print better old copy if you search for one Or you can study Zoroastrianism, which preceded all the false religions. Any of these paths will help you cope in understanding and relative comfort with death.
2006-11-09 05:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by kasandra k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Partially. The religious ideas of afterlife are such that it give some comfort to the living that there is some menaing to this life, that there is something beyond. Otherwise we would all just live with the understandign that what we do becomes null and void at the moment of our death and that life is just an exercise in futility, and who wants to live in THAT world.
2006-11-09 04:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by kveldulfgondlir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is always hardest for the people left behind, but the spirit lives on an eternal journey.
2006-11-09 04:23:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have a tough time dealing with the idea of etenal Hell
2006-11-09 04:47:14 · answer #6 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Faith leads some people to unite with God in eternity.
2006-11-09 04:23:04 · answer #7 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think it depends on what you wanted to here some people might be comforted to hear that there loved ones are in heaven looking down on them, i would not be comforted by this idea as my soul-mate would not think it was heaven to be looking down on me seeing me tortured at his lose
2006-11-09 04:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by bella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes !This is by taking care of Ophans.
2006-11-09 04:25:37 · answer #9 · answered by Rozzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. If there's nothing after life, I have lost nothing.
2006-11-09 04:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋