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Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest
Stanislav_J writes "A US study suggests that people with strong religious beliefs appear to want doctors to do everything they can to keep them alive as death approaches. The study, following 345 patients with terminal cancer, found that 'those who regularly prayed were more than three times more likely to receive intensive life-prolonging care than those who relied least on religion.' At first blush, this appears paradoxical; one would think that a strong belief in an afterlife would lead to a more resigned acceptance of death than nonbelievers who view death as the end of existence, the annihilation of consciousness and the self. Perhaps the concept of a Judgment produces death-bed doubts? ('Am I really saved?') Or, given the Judeo-Christian abhorrence of suicide, and the belief that it is God who must ultimately decide when it is 'our time,' is it felt that refusing aggressive life support measures or resuscitation is tantamount to deliberately ending one's life prematurely?"
I can think of some unnatural religions.
Cthulhu ftaghn, RAmen!
It'd be like calamari in spaghetti sauce:)
Actually, unbaptized babies go to Limbo. Read something besides Pagan FUD please. Thank you.
Just baptize the mom first... The fetus is already awash in fluid inside her!
Osmostism.
Yeah, read the bible and get your facts straight.
Obviously, the entire post was crafted with one and only purpose in mind: to make a trollish statement about "nonbelievers who view death as the end of existence, the annihilation of consciousness and the self". The rest was added for the sole purpose to make the trolling less obvious.
but me dying eventually for some reason is.
I dunno about you, but I do know that my plan is to live forever. Everything is going according to plan so far.
Do you Gentoo!?
Those are two separate tasks.