PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Life Review, Limbic Lobe, Temporal Lobe
20 Oct 2016
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Jewish religion believes that one should only think about the here and now and they believe in the after life. When facing death we realize that we are unable to compete our goals and probably cannot control the situation of our death. Humans can spend their whole life loosing for meaning; finding meaning in death is even more difficult. Society has institutionalized the importance of religion but creating such ritual as the funeral. Some experts believe that religion functions to relieve anxiety due to mortality: to bring about normalcy, others say that religion may increase fears (hell etc. ) The meanings of death are socially ascribed. People tend to reject a belief in the afterlife. Tend to present-orientation for themselves and present/future for others. The idea that there is some form of judgement involved in the process. Death is a curse of adam and eve. God does not save them from death but rather saves israel for history.
