This leaves the question, is death a bad thing? Taking into account the possibility of a bad afterlife, death, according to religions, isn’t a bad thing. In fact, most religions address it as a very good thing. Religions like Buddhism associate the world we are living in now with desire and consequently, suffering. Death for Buddhists is a sort of break from the this material world, and acts as hope for a release from it (Nirvana). Religions like Islam and Christianity think of death as hope too. Death is their judgement, a time to hope for a promising afterlife. Of course, with the possibility of a bad afterlife, people of these religions may fear death too, but death still is portrayed with a comforting
This leaves the question, is death a bad thing? Taking into account the possibility of a bad afterlife, death, according to religions, isn’t a bad thing. In fact, most religions address it as a very good thing. Religions like Buddhism associate the world we are living in now with desire and consequently, suffering. Death for Buddhists is a sort of break from the this material world, and acts as hope for a release from it (Nirvana). Religions like Islam and Christianity think of death as hope too. Death is their judgement, a time to hope for a promising afterlife. Of course, with the possibility of a bad afterlife, people of these religions may fear death too, but death still is portrayed with a comforting