This title offers insight into views on death and dying from the world's major faith's.Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from all major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, this book offers important information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths. The second part of this book adds a necessary and truly unique perspective - a personal look at how people actually die in the various world religions, as told by a hospital chaplain, with anecdotes and experiences that illuminates the death process.Each chapter engages the theology of each religion, giving quotes from the literature of their respective scriptural traditions, to explain the process of dying, death, and the afterlife. In doing so, each author draws on the history of the respective tradition and looks at real life figures, exemplars of the tradition, showing how practitioners view death and hope to one day engage the death process themselves.