Matters of Life and Death Key Words

Question	Answer
Paranormal	Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, e.g. ghosts and mediums
Heaven	A place of paradise where God rules
Hell	A place of horrors where Satan rules
Immortality of the Soul	The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
Resurrection	The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
Abortion	The removal of the foetus from the womb before it can survive
Assisted Suicide	Providing an seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
Euthanasia	An easy and gentle death
Non-Voluntary Euthanasia	Ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so e.g. switching off a life support machine
Voluntary Euthanasia	When someone dying in pain asks a doctor to end his/her life personally
Sanctity of Life	The belief that all life is holy and belongs to God
Purgatory	A place Catholics believe you go so as to work off sins before going to heaven
Quality of Life	The idea that life must have some benefits to be worth living
Reincarnation	The belief that after death souls are reborn in a new body
Near Death Experience (NDE)	When someone about to die has an out of body experience

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