Journal #19

I think that nature and spirituality are important for most people when thinking about life and death. Most people directly relate spirituality with life and death. Usually religion is what people use to explain what happens after life, and they use teachings of their religion during their life. On the other side, people that do not believe in a religion will most likely have to relate nature to life and death. After life the human body will decompose and become one with nature, and during life people are always around nature. We are basically living off nature all the time, and it continues to be with us even after death. Spirituality is very important in the cycle of life and death with people who believe in reincarnation. They cease to live, but they come back to life. Nature is not exactly as important unless you consider that they are coming back as something else. But they have their religion around the idea that they will keep coming back as a different being in a cycle. In short religion is a huge piece of importance for most people in their philosophies on life and death. They are constantly relating to their spiritual ideas, and they have to have faith in what is to come. Those who do not have religious beliefs are expecting to most likely have an end to their lives. The religious people almost all expect to keep on living whether it be in a new life or a new place. The atheistic people expect to have an end, but it sort of ends by infusing with nature. Everybody has their own beliefs about life and death and how things end or cease to end, but for the most part it will have some correlation to spirituality and/or nature. No matter what one of these two factors will impact somebody in the aspect of life and death whether it be a large or small influence.