End of Life Flashcards
What is the afterlife?
Life after death
What is the bereaved?
Person/people who has lost a loved one
What is the body?
Physical part of you that is visible
What is the burial?
Body placed into coffin and lowered into ground
What is the Committal?
Body committed to ground accompanied by prayers
What is deja vu?
Feeling you’ve been to a place before when you know you couldn’t have
Definition of deceased
Someone who has died
What is the Eulogy?
Speech/talk about deceased person’s life
Definition of funeral
Service that occurs after someone has died
Definition of funeral rites
Customs and ceremonies that happen after a person has died
Definition of heaven
Christian idea of paradise where you go to be with God forever
Definition of hell
Place of punishment, absent from God forever
What is hypnosis?
Idea that person goes back in time to remember events buried deep in their memory
What is a near death experience?
Unusual experience that takes place on brink of death recounted by person on recovery
Usually out of body experience or vision of tunnel of light
Definition of parables
Stories by Jesus to give religious meaning
Definition of predestination
Idea that God has already decided who goes to heaven or hell
Definition of premonition
Strong feeling something is about to happen
What is Purgatory?
Roman Catholic belief that many souls go to purgatory to cleanse sins as no one is perfect enough to go straight to heaven