Human Growth and Development / Unit 17 HGD 2415 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Religion and Death
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The idea
Religion can comfort and give meaning, but secular people do not report more death anxiety or poorer coping than religious people.
In practice
Belief in a happy afterlife lowering anxiety, and beliefs framing death as punishment raising it.
Where people slip
The misconception is that religious people always fear death less; the very religious and the very nonreligious show similar death acceptance.
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