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Religious perspectives Most religions describe the afterlife as the continuation of a person's identity or consciousness after the body dies, either in another realm or through rebirth 8 9 . A very common idea is that how you lived determines what happens next 11 . Christianity and related traditions Mainstream...
The big split: something continues, or nothing continues Beliefs about death fall into two broad families. One says the essential part of a person—identity or consciousness—continues after the body dies, either in a supernatural realm or through rebirth into this world 41 42 . The other says death simply ends...
The big picture: aging is a side effect, not a plan Evolutionary biologists generally treat aging as a non adaptive by product or side effect of evolution, not as a beneficial, designed process 1 52 53 . In other words, no genes evolved specifically to cause damage and death; aging...
