Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: Lessons from World Cultures

Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death (and life), guided by a religion scholar and award-winning professor.

• By This Professor
• 01: Death's Place in Our Lives
• 02: Defining Death
• 03: Death, Illusion, and Meaning
• 04: Is It Rational to Fear Death?
• 05: Understanding and Coping with Grief
• 06: Death Rituals and the Corpse
• 07: American Death Rituals
• 08: Approaches to Dying Well
• 09: Judaism on Death and the Afterlife
• 10: Death and Hope in Christianity
• 11: Islam on Returning to God
• 12: Death, Rebirth, and Liberation in Hinduism
• 13: Buddhism on Impermanence and Mindfulness
• 14: The Process of Dying in Tibetan Buddhism
• 15: Confucian Remembrance, Daoist Forgetting
• 16: Death and Syncretism in China
• 17: Suicide Examined
• 18: The Choice of Euthanasia
• 19: Killing in War and the Pacifist Challenge
• 20: Considering Capital Punishment
• 21: Killing Non-Human Animals
• 22: Near-Death Experiences
• 23: The Pursuit of Immortality
• 24: The Value of Death