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Matters of Life and Death Key Words
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- 1ParanormalUnexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, e.g. ghosts and mediums
- 2HeavenA place of paradise where God rules
- 3HellA place of horrors where Satan rules
- 4Immortality of the SoulThe idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
- 5ResurrectionThe belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
- 6AbortionThe removal of the foetus from the womb before it can survive
- 7Assisted SuicideProviding an seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
- 8EuthanasiaAn easy and gentle death
- 9Non-Voluntary EuthanasiaEnding 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
- 10Voluntary EuthanasiaWhen someone dying in pain asks a doctor to end his/her life personally
- 11Sanctity of LifeThe belief that all life is holy and belongs to God
- 12PurgatoryA place Catholics believe you go so as to work off sins before going to heaven
- 13Quality of LifeThe idea that life must have some benefits to be worth living
- 14ReincarnationThe belief that after death souls are reborn in a new body
- 15Near Death Experience (NDE)When someone about to die has an out of body experience
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- GCSE Religious Studies (Matters of Life and Death (U1)) FlashCards sobre Matters of Life and Death Key Words, criado por CalicoChameleon em 08-05-2016.
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