Link: Buddhist Views of the Afterlife
“Death presents an opportunity and a crisis for both the person approaching death and for the human community dealing with grief and loss,” according to Goss and Klass. These words were written about Buddhism, but they apply equally across humankind as death is the ultimate equalizer in that even money and the best medical care cannot prolong life forever. The other truism about religions is that they do not exist in a vacuum, and each religion takes characteristics from the region it was born in and from the countries its adherents migrate to.
This paper was written as a review of a book chapter exploring the Buddhist view of death.