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EDEXCEL Religious Studies: Section 2-Matters of Life and Death
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- 1What is Immortality of the Soul?The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.
- 2What is the Paranormal?Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, for example, ghosts and mediums.
- 3What is Resurrection?The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world, when it is raised.
- 4What is Reincarnation?The belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body.
- 5What is a Near-death Experience?When somebody about to die has an out-of-body experience.
- 6What is an Abortion?The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive.
- 7What is the Sanctity of Life?The belief that life is holy and belongs to God.
- 8What is Assisted Suicide?Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide.
- 9What is Euthanasia?The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease.
- 10What is Non-voluntary Euthanasia?Ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so.
- 11What is the Quality of Life?The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living.
- 12What is Voluntary Euthanasia?Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death.
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- Key words from section two of "Religion and Life: Fifth Edition by Victor W. Watton".
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- yoloswaggins · Mar 2014
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