A) Gotami is never able to come to terms with her grief for her dead son
B) the Buddha teaches Gotami that she should not expect him to perform miracles
C) Gotami learns that death comes to everyone
D) the Buddha claims that human lives are more important than other lives
E) we are taught that death is a good thing
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A) it leads to escape from the wheel of rebirths
B) it may lead to rebirth into another life of suffering
C) it leads to a state beyond desire
D) it represents a rejection of the possibility of nirvana
E) it leads to a state that is serene and peaceful
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A) may refer to a diminished life style after death
B) often refers to what continues from oneself through one's children
C) is sometimes associated only with divine beings
D) may be given only to certain human beings
E) all of these
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A) in one of the heavens awaiting rebirth
B) in a state of eternal bliss with Brahman, having achieved liberation from the cycle of rebirths
C) immediately reborn
D) all of these
E) none of these
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A) moral persons are rewarded after they die
B) the kingdom of the dead is a dreary, unhappy place
C) it is very much like the life we know here
D) individuals are reincarnated until they learn no longer to indulge their desires
E) God will resurrect everyone either to new life or to eternal death
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A) means that the soul is necessarily tied up with a body
B) is linked to the idea of a numinous substance in humans who survives death
C) is a term for an entity that goes to heaven after death
D) all of these
E) none of these
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A) involving punishment for one's sins
B) leading to reincarnation
C) leading to permanent loss of consciousness
D) resulting in a reward for one's good deeds
E) none of these
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A) sometimes occur when one is near death
B) clearly demonstrate what the afterlife is like
C) are experiences which one has while one is dead
D) are not like other experiences people have, for instance, while they are without oxygen
E) show no similarities among people of different cultures
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A) Why was I born?
B) How are life and death related?
C) What is the meaning of my having lived?
D) Where there is death, is there no life?
E) all of these
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A) a good thing
B) a migration of the body to another place
C) a separation from all those we have ever known
D) all of these
E) none of these
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A) essential insecurity about our being can lead to overwhelming anxiety
B) society can do more to protect its members from killings like this
C) total security from tragedy is an illusion
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
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A) birth
B) death
C) dissociation from the pleasant
D) all of these
E) none of these
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A) one will see death as an irrevocable evil
B) one will hope to live on in some form of afterlife
C) one will be happy to die
D) one's attitude toward death will be influenced in some-not necessarily any obvious-way
E) one will give up hope when one is dying
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A) has her beliefs confirmed that life and death are but two parts of the same thing
B) is frightened when a snowflake lands on her finger
C) misses an opportunity to experience snow for the first time
D) is told by her parents what it means to say that her grandmother is dying
E) makes her first snowball
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A) social
B) natural
C) theological
D) biological
E) all of these
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A) one will see death as an irrevocable evil
B) one will believe that there is no afterlife
C) one will be happy to die
D) one's attitude toward death will be influenced in some-not necessarily any obvious-way
E) one will give up hope when one is dying
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A) the continuation of one's life in what one creates
B) some form of personal afterlife
C) the continuation of one's life in one's biological descendants
D) a life continued in a different, spiritual world
E) the continuation of one's life in the physical world around us
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A) suggests that life and death are not simply opposites
B) is an image portraying the notion that wherever there is life there is also death
C) symbolically opposes the notion that life and death are direct contraries to each other
D) suggests that death never completely overcomes life
E) all of these
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A) holds that there is a reincarnation, but no eternal soul
B) teaches that one ought to strive to end the cycle of rebirths
C) believes that life as it is lived here is suffering
D) all of these
E) none of these
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A) then necessarily that person also believes that death is always an evil
B) that person is less likely to want to be treated with artificial nutrition and hydration
C) he or she holds a belief similar to one of Socrates' beliefs
D) he or she will also believe that death is always a good
E) none of these
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