Flashcards
GCSE RE KEYWORDS life and death
Cards in this deck (8)
- 1AFTERLIFElife after death; the belief that existence continues after physical death
- 2ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITYensuring that the demands placed on 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.+
- 3EUTHANASIAfrom Greek, eu ‘good’ + 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.
- 4EVOLUTIONthe process by which different living creatures are believed to have developed from earlier. Less complex forms during the history of the earth.
- 5ABORTIONwhen a pregnancy is ended so that it does not result in the birth of a child.
- 6QUALITY OF LIFEthe extent to which life is meaningful and pleasurable
- 7SANCITITY OF LIFEthe belief that life is precious, or sacred. For many religious believers, only human life holds this special status,
- 8SOULthe 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.