Afterlife

High school (ages 12+)
Philosophy & Big Questions

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/afterlife

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the afterlife?The afterlife is the idea that a person's mind or spirit might continue living in another world after their body dies.
2. How do ancient Egyptians think about the afterlife?Ancient Egyptians believed the soul goes to a place called Duat, where it is judged by the god Osiris. They mummified bodies and built big tombs to help the soul travel and live forever.

Eschatology: The branch of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
Samsara: The cyclical process of death and rebirth, central to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.
Materialism: The philosophical view that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions.