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View Of Death And Dying, And Other Medical Issues Through The Eyes Of People In Different Religions, Kaylie Roberts
View Of Death And Dying, And Other Medical Issues Through The Eyes Of People In Different Religions, Kaylie Roberts
Honors Theses
The process of dying, and death itself, is viewed quite differently among different religions. Other medical issues, including abortion and suicide, are also topics of debate and interest among the major religions of the world. In this thesis, five major religions are discussed: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. For the purpose ofthis thesis, Christianity was divided into two categories: Southern Baptist Convention and Roman Catholicism. Each religion has a vast amount of denominations or subgroups. However, for the information covered here, there is not a huge amount of variation among the subgroups of each religion. That is not to …