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Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Jun. 2013
In our language the word deceased allows us to designate that individual who has passed away, who has died, that is, who has lost his life by x circumstance, a disease, an accident, among the most common causes, and his death occurred.
Person who has died from an accident, illness or murder
Death puts an end to life, implies the end of the life cycle of any living being, so it is the opposite of this and can happen by factors natural, for example, an illness, accidental, suffer a car accident, or intentional, when someone murders another person.
Death is the last phase of the life cycle, a cycle that begins with birth, continues with growth and reproduction and at the end of total development there is death.
Religious and philosophical beliefs about life that proceeds to death
This applies to all living beings, plants, animals and of course to people, now, with respect to the death of individuals gives rise to other considerations and meanings because the natural biological process is added the
belief religious or of any kind regarding death, especially what happens after it.There are a lot of religions, the Catholicism, for example, who believe in life on another plane when the person dies, that life develops in a place many times popularly referred to as beyond or heaven, in which if the person in life was good he may be with God.
Now, only the soul enjoys that eternal life or another life because its body is finite and reaches its end when the person dies, decomposing like any other element with organic characteristics.
This belief in an afterlife is what usually drives people who believe in this to behave well in life, with your neighbor or with those around you, because otherwise your soul will not be able to access that good life once dead.
Other religions speak instead of reincarnation, the soul being the one that continues to exist and not the physical body.
So, if we follow the proposals of some religions we will find the idea that death implies the passage to another life, another experience, in which the soul, already separated from the physical body, begins a new existence beyond earthly.
There are many beliefs, modern and legendary, around what happens to the person at his death.
Rituals
On the other hand, around death, there are also since ancient times numerous rituals that individuals put into practice once an individual dies, including: wake and funeral.
Many of them are also closely related to the religious belief that the circle intimate of the deceased at the time of his death.
The wake is a practice that takes place a few hours after the death of the person and is usually carried out in places specially designated for this ceremony, or it is also common for the wake to take place at home or in any other establishment linked to the activity or origin of the deceased.
In it, the deceased who remains in a coffin, will be contemplated, fired by their relatives, friends, acquaintances, co-workers, among others, who also approach the family there present to offer your condolences.
Once the wake is over, the funeral is carried out, which is the ceremony in which the deceased is dismissed and which may consist of cremation or burial of the deceased.
And if we go back a few thousand years we find a civilization powerful and very influential as was the Egyptian who just stood out for her particular rites at the behest of death, whose mission was to ensure immortality after it.
The citizens of power, like the pharaohs, ordered to build imposing temples so that their remains rest once dead.
In addition, they were mummified, spells were pronounced and items and belongings of the deceased were placed in the tombs because it was believed that he would need them in his other life, which began after death.
The word deceased is a term that has several synonyms, among which the following stand out: dead and deceased, meanwhile, the concept that opposes is that of alive, which implies that he has life.
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