RELIGIOUS STUDIES (life and death)

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Afterlife
Life after death; the belief that existence continues after physical death.
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Envitonmental Sustainability
Ensuring that the demands placed on the natural resources can be met without reducing capacity to allow all people and other species of animals, as well as plant life, to live well now and in the future.
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Euthanaisia
From Greek, eu 'good' and thanatos 'death'. Sometimes referred to as 'mercy killing'. The act of killing or permitting the death of a person who is suffering from a serious illness.
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Evolution
The process by which different living creatures are believed to have developed from earlier less complex forms during the history of the earth.
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Abortion
When a pregnancy is ended so that it does not result in a birth of a child.
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Quality of Life
The extent to which life is meaningless and unpleasurable.
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Sancitity of Life
The belief that life is precious, or sacred. For many religious believers, only human life holds this special status.
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Soul
The spiritual aspect of a being; that which connects someone to God. The soul is often regarded as non physical and as living on after physical death, in an afterlife.
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Ensuring that the demands placed on the natural resources can be met without reducing capacity to allow all people and other species of animals, as well as plant life, to live well now and in the future.

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Envitonmental Sustainability

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From Greek, eu 'good' and thanatos 'death'. Sometimes referred to as 'mercy killing'. The act of killing or permitting the death of a person who is suffering from a serious illness.

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The process by which different living creatures are believed to have developed from earlier less complex forms during the history of the earth.

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When a pregnancy is ended so that it does not result in a birth of a child.

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