Reply #14: Death is tricky for succesful death based religions [View All]

[Az]

If a religion promotes the notion that what happens after you die is superior to what happens before, then keeping followers around becomes problematic. Whats to keep people from killing themself to enter the gates of heaven when they want to? Thus most death based religions have to concoct a very strong rejection of unnatural death.

To this end most maintain strong taboos about suicide and murder becomes a major moral travesty. Thus we have this parodox where this woman who's mind is dead but who's body continues to exist creates a moral issue. When combined with Christianities notion of a soul associated with identity rather than the brain the situation is exasterbated even further.

Because they believe the soul is something other than just the brain then a body that looks and moves like a human creates a cognitive disconnect. The presumption on their part is that the soul is still connected to the body. Killing it is murder which is an abomination. It doesn't matter to them that her brain is jello. Thats not where the soul resides.