Write a five page essay on the following theme:

In the first half of this quarter, we examined the ways in which various religious traditions have denied the finality of death by casting death as a transition to another sort of life. This death-as-transition perspective is reflected in religious doctrines concerning the afterlife of the dead, as well as in funerary practices and various types of rituals observed to feed, commemorate, ward off, or otherwise satisfy the dead.

Drawing on data from at least three of the following traditions, write an essay to support the argument that every world religion denies that death is final.

1. Ancient Mesopotamia

2. Ancient Egypt

3. Ancient Greece

4. Islam

5. Zoroastrianism

6. Christianity

7.Tibetan Buddhism