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  2. Spiritual death - Wikipedia

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    Spiritual death is dealt with in the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16, which says that those of demoniac nature engage in harmful, horrible works meant to destroy the world. They become envious of God, who is situated in their own bodies.

  3. Spiritual death in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    According to the doctrine of original sin, all people have a sinful nature and thus commit sin, and are thereby spiritually dead. Those who have faith in Jesus Christ are thereafter made spiritually alive. The unbeliever's physical death, subsequent resurrection, and final judgment is followed by the second death. [2]

  4. Stages of human death - Wikipedia

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    The certification applies to somatic death, corresponding to death of the person, which has varying definitions but most commonly describes a lack of vital signs and brain function. [9] Death at the level of cells, called molecular death or cell death, follows a matter of hours later. [10] These distinctions, and the independence of physicians ...

  5. Tukdam - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] A person is claimed to exist in this state anywhere from a minute to weeks, depending on the level of their realization, [1] but only the expert practitioners of meditation, when dying, can recognize it and use it for spiritual purposes. [4] As Sogyal Rinpoche describes it in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: [7]

  6. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, the symbol of a wheel represents the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth that happens in samsara. [6] The symbol of a grave or tomb, especially one in a picturesque or unusual location, can be used to represent death, as in Nicolas Poussin's famous painting Et in Arcadia ego. Images of life in the afterlife are also symbols of death.

  7. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    The death of a martyr or the value attributed to it is called martyrdom. In different belief systems, the criteria for being considered a martyr are different. In the Christian context, a martyr is an innocent person who, without seeking death, is murdered or put to death for his or her religious faith or convictions.

  8. Islamic view of death - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] Death is also seen as the gateway to the beginning of the afterlife. In Islamic belief, death is predetermined by God, and the exact time of a person's death is known only to God. Death is accepted as wholly natural, and merely marks a transition between the material realm and the unseen world. [10]

  9. Viaticum - Wikipedia

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    In Late Antiquity and the Early Mediaeval period in the West, the host was sometimes placed in the mouth of a person already dead. Some claim this could relate to a traditional practice [1] that scholars have compared to the pre-Christian custom of Charon's obol, a small coin placed in the mouth of the dead for passage to the afterlife and sometimes also called a viaticum in Latin literary ...