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
Definition of righteous
Morally right
Definition of rites
Religious ceremony
Definition of Reconciliation
To ‘make up’ a friendship or relationship
Definition of redemption
Sins can be forgiven and a person can be redeemed
What is reincarnation?
Rebirth of soul in another body
What is repentance?
Saying and feeling truly sorry
What is the resurrection?
Raised from the dead into a new life
Definition of salvation
Jesus came to Earth to save people from sin, achieved this when he died on the cross
What is the soul?
Non physical part of body that is invisible
Common ideas of the soul
- Non physical part of human, part of God in humans, divine spark
- Invisible
- Lives on after body dies
- Spiritual aspect, unique, humans distinct from animal kingdom
- In conflict with body throughout life
- Aims to be united with God
Christian beliefs on soul
- Everyone has a soul that is separate from physical body
- ‘created man in his image’ - divine spark
- Animals formed ‘out of the ground’, whilst with Adam - God ‘breathed into his nostrils the breath of life’
- Spiritual part connected to God
St Paul’s belief about body and soul
- They are in conflict (body wants natural desires, soul wants spiritual satisfaction)
- Spirit should guide you in order to be united with God after death
- Proof that soul reunites with God is the resurrection of Jesus
Life after death quote from Jesus
“I am the resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”
Do Christians believe in reincarnation?
No. However, believe there will be a resurrection of the body on the Day of Judgment
Christian beliefs about heaven
- Go to heaven if you follow God’s way on Earth and don’t sin
- Place free of suffering, eternity with God
- Sinners that repent may enter
- “a mansion with many rooms”, “my father’s house”
- ‘There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain.’
- State of mind, not something physical that can be described
Christian beliefs about hell
- Pain and suffering
- Absence of God
- For those who reject Jesus’s teachings
- “a lake of everlasting fire”
- State of mind
Reason why Roman Catholics believe in purgatory
No one is perfect enough to go straight to the presence of God
Christian beliefs about God as a judge
- ultimate and only judge of all humanity
- Judge each person individually according to how they lived their lives, their faith and actions at the end of the world
- Judge the ‘living and the dead’ at the end of time
2 other names given to Jesus
‘Saviour of the World’ and ‘Redeemer’
What do Christians believe they will receive through devotion to Jesus?
Salvation and redemption
How do Roman Catholics believe people can lead better lives?
By confessing their sins to a priest who will forgive them
Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
- Sheep were good (“I was sick and you looked after me”) and so rewarded with heaven
- Goats were bad (“I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me”) and punished with hell
The sheep followed what commandment?
“Love thy neighbour”
What does the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus show?
- God will punish those who don’t help poor with Hell
- Cannot reach God from hell
Examples of Christian funeral rites
- Bible reading
- Prayers
- Eulogy
- Hymns
- Committal
Quote from the Committal
“earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust”
How do funeral rites aim to support the bereaved?
- Comfort and hope that the deceased is in heaven
- Chance to say goodbye formally
- Celebrate and remember the life of the deceased
- Closure and peace
- Support (solace) from friends and family
