RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Endangerment, Organ Transplantation, Ernest Becker

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2M03
• Professor: Sherry Smith

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Slide 7 depicts death personified as a skeletal figure. Slide 8 depicts the common image of the grim reaper; often portrayed as skeletal, or as an elderly man almost always carrying a scythe. The grim reapers purpose is to carry the souls of the dead to the afterlife. Slide 9 kali, a hindu goddess of death. Slide 10 in hindu tradition, yama the god of death and lord of. Our reactions to death are learned; not biological. We learn how we are supposed to think, feel, and behave due to our cultural values and the expectations place upon us by society. We get excited talking about birth for new life, in almost every culture, people discuss death with reluctance. The actual meaning and concepts of death differ from culture to culture. In some culture, death involves different conditions; sleep, illness, or reaching a certain age. In the west, the total cessation of life is cellular death with complete non-functionality.