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[[File:Images - 2024-05-18T211850.429.jpg|thumb|representation of a [[Sharty tripod|brimstone lesbo]] getting obliterated by a [[Joe biden|biden]] blast, an example of death]]'''Death''' is the cessation of life in a living being, whether through natural means or through killing, technically defined in sapient beings as the permanent termination of brain activity. | [[File:Images - 2024-05-18T211850.429.jpg|thumb|representation of a [[Sharty tripod|brimstone lesbo]] getting obliterated by a [[Joe biden|biden]] blast, an example of death]]'''Death''' is the cessation of life in a living being, whether through natural means or through killing, technically defined in sapient beings as the permanent termination of brain activity. Death has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion, due to the affection for the being that has died and the termination of social and familial bonds with the deceased. | ||
Fear of death is common which results in various beliefs concerning death that are held by humans as a form of coping mechanism. There are those who believe that living beings simply cease to exist upon death, while there are those who believe in an afterlife where the living being's soul and/or spirit goes to. In Abrahamic Mythology, for example, there is the belief of heaven for the righteous and the faithful and of hell for the unbelieving and the wicked. Rituals for the deceased vary from one culture to another, with the most common being the funeral which allows the friends and family of the deceased to express and share their griefs with one another and to bid farewell and even a safe journey to the preferred afterlife of the deceased. | Fear of death is common which results in various beliefs concerning death that are held by humans as a form of coping mechanism. There are those who believe that living beings simply cease to exist upon death, while there are those who believe in an afterlife where the living being's soul and/or spirit goes to. In Abrahamic Mythology, for example, there is the belief of heaven for the righteous and the faithful and of hell for the unbelieving and the wicked. Rituals for the deceased vary from one culture to another, with the most common being the funeral which allows the friends and family of the deceased to express and share their griefs with one another and to bid farewell and even a safe journey to the preferred afterlife of the deceased. | ||
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Revision as of 01:27, 26 May 2024
Death is the cessation of life in a living being, whether through natural means or through killing, technically defined in sapient beings as the permanent termination of brain activity. Death has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion, due to the affection for the being that has died and the termination of social and familial bonds with the deceased.
Fear of death is common which results in various beliefs concerning death that are held by humans as a form of coping mechanism. There are those who believe that living beings simply cease to exist upon death, while there are those who believe in an afterlife where the living being's soul and/or spirit goes to. In Abrahamic Mythology, for example, there is the belief of heaven for the righteous and the faithful and of hell for the unbelieving and the wicked. Rituals for the deceased vary from one culture to another, with the most common being the funeral which allows the friends and family of the deceased to express and share their griefs with one another and to bid farewell and even a safe journey to the preferred afterlife of the deceased.