This study tells me one thing: The religious aren't less afraid of death and neither are hey more certain about an afterlife. It's just a show.
For awhile, I suspected that religion fills a need for certainty in an uncertain world.
Certainty is a pipe dream. Nothing is fixed and no one knows what happens after death, despite what religion tells us.
Too many willingly believe in an afterlife, but studies such as this give credence to the fact that those beliefs provide little guidance when death calls.
It takes great courage to face death with the knowledge that the end is near. Holding onto beliefs in spite of supporting evidence may be fine while death seems distant, yet when those beliefs get tested the truth hits like a slap in the face.
True courage requires no fantasy of an afterlife to soften the possible truth of existence, viz., that this is all there is.
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