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As the body of the deceased remains observably dead and eventually decomposes, afterlife belief requires the concept of a [[soul]] - a version of the deceased which continues to exist in some form after death. Although no soul has ever been detected, its existance is assumed due to the difficulty of accepting existence without an afterlife, and the resulting tendency to clutch at straw.
As the body of the deceased remains observably dead and eventually decomposes, afterlife belief requires the concept of a [[soul]] - a version of the deceased which continues to exist in some form after death. Although no soul has ever been detected, its existance is assumed due to the difficulty of accepting existence without an afterlife, and the resulting tendency to clutch at straw.
==Personification==
Certain peoples often use a personification of death. Known to us some as the Grim Reaper or simply Death. In modern times, he usually appears wearing a black hooded robe and carrying a scythe. Many religions had a god or deity who stood for death and/or the afterlife:
Ankou (Breton)
Hades and Thanatos (Greek)
Hel (Norse)
Hun-Came (Mayan)
Izanami (Shinto)
Kamatayan (Philippines)
Loki (Norse)
Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec)
The Morrigan (Irish)
Mors (Roman)
Mot (Canaanite)
Odin (Norse)
Osiris (Egyptian)
Shemal (Semitic)
Shinigami (Japanese)
Sielulintu, Kalma, Surma (Finnish)
Thanatos (Greek)
Tuoni (Finnish)
Yama (Hindu)
Yanluo (Chinese)
==Religious Interpretations==
==Religious Interpretations==