The Afterlife

Dying, everyone is afraid of it. Why should we be afraid of it? When there are many different ways we are still alive after we die. IN Christianity Heaven and Hell and God is what they believe in, if you commit murder or some sort of crime you go to Hell, if you believe in God you will go to Heaven. IN the Catholic Church Limbo is where a person dies and goes to Hell. In some Indian religions such as Hinduism the idea of Reincarnation is how they cope with dying they think we will all be reborn again.  In Christianity Heaven is the holiest place of all. They always say that God is watching down on man making sure everything is okay. They have the idea of if you believe in God you will get to spend eternity with him and also other believers.  They believe that heaven will be a place where you will get to live the rest of your time to the fullest.

In the Catholic Church, the term Limbo means an afterlife condition created by Medieval Roman Catholic theologians, but not made official Catholic doctrine. It’s another idea about the afterlife. The Catholic Church believes when a person dies and goes down into hell they will be sorted into four different parts there are; Hell of the Damned, Purgatory, Limbo of the fathers, and Limbo of the infants. Purgatory is when someone is in the process of purification or in temporary punishment. Limbo of the infants is when a child has died and was too young to commit any sins but wasn’t freed of any original sins.

Once you die Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism the believe in Reincarnation. It occurs when a the body of a human has died but the soul or spirit comes back to life in a newborn body. Other religions such as Druidism, Spiritism, and Eckankar believes in the idea of reincarnation. What riencarnaion is not, is that some people believe that someone will possesses an immortal soul which will turn them into a form of a cat after there death. This will be repeated over and over again, but if the human is lucky they will be reborn a human being again. This way of the soul moving into a different form does not exist in the Indian Religion.

When I am old I will not be afraid of dying, I will accept the fact it is my time. I will have realized I had the time to live my life I had they time to love and have a family and do the things I love to do. But when I’m this age I am afraid of dying I don’t want to have my life taken away at a young age I want to be able to love have a family and do the things I love to do. Sometimes when I am in a situation that I know is stupid and very dangerous I do think about how death can come, it’s scary to realizes that I could have died in that situation and never could have grow old. When I die I personally think the afterlife will be beautiful, I think that heaven will be bright and sunny and perfect I think if it’s my time to go to Heaven it will be great to see it but not great to leave earth.

Tuesday with Morrie

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.” The culture we have makes people feel lower about themselves. In the novel Tuesday with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, Morrie explains how the culture we have shows people young, thin, pretty and adventurous, when really some people are not. “We’re teaching the wrong things.” We’re teaching teenage girls that the only way you can be liked is if you fit the body size, you’ll only be attractive if you are thin. In magazines all it shows is how skinny girls are, and how you need to get killer abs in ten days. Also telling girls how they need to get rid of there winter chub because summer is coming. The pressure of body size destroys the self-confidence of any teenage girls. Morrie also stats that “[people] have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.” I think he is trying to say, don’t like the influence of magazines and TV fool you, don’t like the “Total Gym” or “Weight Watchers” fool you, they look for overweight people to buy into them everyday. The media displays only beautiful, young ladies, to bad there all airbrushed and unnatural. No teenage girl is like that, many try there hardest to be like like that. The media pushes girls to be like the airbrushed ladies, but in the end girls end up harming themselves just to be like them. The culture we have makes its seem like the only way we can be liked is if we have the looks, the body size, the richness, and the popularity. Lastly Morrie says that people are even more “unhappy than me-even in my present condition.” Morrie is dying, but he still sees himself as perfectly fine, he doesn't worry about his status he doesn't need to be the richest man on the block, he already feels the richest because he has the love of his friends and family around him. Most people do buy into the lottery tickets or the big cars and houses, they don't look at whats rich love and friendship is right infront of them. They focus on the big idea of being known as the rich and famous person. But Morrie understands there’s more to somebody than body size and beauty and being rich. Just look deep, the beauty spot is what inside someone.