Matters of Life and Death keywords

The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body

The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised

When someone who is about to die has an out-of-body experience

Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts

The belief that after death, your soul is reborn in a new body

The belief that life is holy and belongs to God

The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive

Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide

The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease

Ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason to thinking they would want you to do so

The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living

Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death