Cultural Analysis on Death and the Afterlife

If there is one constant in this world, it would surely be death. Dying is an unavoidable part of life. Indeed, everything that lives will at sometime die. The fear of death is held by everyone. Perhaps it is the correlation of death with pain or the unknown state of the human consciousness after death, maybe a combination of both, that creates this fear. The fear felt is undoubtedly universal, however, the ways in which …

…tommorow will not be one which is dependent on preconceived notions and limits set by the past. Such a future is boundless and exciting and at the same time frightening. The world is in a sense shedding its old skin to make way for the new skin. Old skin being traditional ways of thought based on faith and the new skin being a mixture of ancient and new arising thought based on logic and science.