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2 days ago · Rejecting the Loneliness of Death. Gaiman is not observant (although he did take Hebrew and Bar Mitzvah lessons as a child), but The Sandman’s Death is a moving reflection of Judaism’s rejection of the loneliness of death. When we first meet Death in Issue #8 (and Episode 6), she is on her way to claim the soul of Harry, a Jewish man.
4 days ago · The word for “soul,” ātman, is derived from an, thus placing the concept of breath at the very core of the individual self or soul. The Hindu concept of the soul is central to an understanding of most Hindu practices related to death.
3 days ago · Immediately after death, the soul is not clothed in a physical body but in a vaporous thumb-sized structure (linga ṡarīra). This is immediately seized by two servants of Yama, the god of death, who carry it to their master for a preliminary identity check.
3 days ago · In the Nicene Creed the life of the Christian is characterized as “ eternal life.” In the Gospels and in the apostolic letters, “eternal” is first of all a temporal designation: in contrast to life of this world, eternal life has a deathless duration.
2 days ago · There is an eternal duality of the body and the soul and it is impossible for the soul to exist without the body. Therefore, reincarnations occur instantly at one's death.
2 days ago · Eternal return (or eternal recurrence) is a philosophical concept which states that time repeats itself in an infinite loop, and that exactly the same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way, over and over again, for eternity. In ancient Greece, the concept of eternal return was most prominently associated with Stoicism, the ...
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1 day ago · Philosophy of religion article index. v. t. e. The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. [ 1] The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element ...
