the comfort given by religions to the dying and the mourning and beliefs about life after death

• Christianity teaches that there is an afterlife, comforting those who are dying and left behind 
• those who follow their faith can ask for forgiveness, and so death can be seen as the beginning 
• Buddhists believe in reincarnation or rebirth, and so good people have nothing to worry 

• hospices provide care for patients being the complete package
• they are based on Christian foundations 
• patients receive palliative care- pain relief to maintain comfort 
• they can die with dignity and also give practical support to comfort the relatives  

• Christians believe in Heaven and Hell and R.C’s believe in purgatory  
• their is a Judgement Day where people are judged on their actions in their lives
• Jesus tells them that they will be brought back to life John 11:25
• St. Paul teaches us about life after death and how the body will transformed from the physical to the spiritual

• non-religious people may believe in the afterlife e.g travelling through a tunnel of light, ghosts and remembering their reincarnations of past lives 
• BUT science shows that the body decays, no-one has resurrected to tell us, end of life is literal, life support machines prove the brain dies before the body