Molly Farrell-Savage Essays - Religion, Philosophy, Belief

Molly Farrell-Savage McEachen K Introduction to Psychology 27 February, 2014 Perceptions of Death and Dying Fredrika Verhoeven is 81 years old and lives in the Netherlands. She is Jewish and a survivor of the Holocaust. Fredrika believes that death is a natural part of life and that all deaths have meaning. Because she experienced an event where so many people died, this belief helps her to make sense of it and accept it. This is a basic belief of Judaism. Fredrika also beliefs that after death, there is no afterlife but it's not something that she think about a lot because it's important to her to focus on life now. Ricardo Valenzuela 18 years old and lives in Spain. he is very religious and firmly believes the Catholic beliefs regarding death. He believes in heaven, hell, and purgatory and that it's vital to do good in life. The afterlife is something that he think about often because he regularly attends church and goes to a Catholic school. Rachelle Essig is 48 years old and lives in America. She is Jewish but is not religious. She doesn't have firm beliefs on afterlife but she generally believes that people are reincarnated. She believes this because in nature, flowers die and come back in the spring so it seems logical to her.