Death and Religion

Death is with us, it follows us, and it obsesses us. It is our eternal companion and we cannot escape from it, not only because it will come to us sooner or later, but also because of all of the people we see dying every day. Obviously for most of us, death is not indifferent and we react and cope with it differently according to our beliefs and religions. Muslims and Christians think that after death, our souls go to heaven or hell. Hinduisms believe in reincarnation, for Buddhists death is nothing but a transitional path and for Spiritualists our souls have the ability to communicate with the living. Each religion responds differently to the mystery of ceasing to exist.
What happens after death? What is next? Each religion agrees to respond to the most asked question in the history of humanity. To Christians death is a transit between life on earth and life on heaven, alongside with God. Christians think that after death, our soul survives our body, and that death is the eternal rest of our soul in God’s company. But before earning the right to go to heaven we must fulfill The Ten Commandments that Jesus, the Son of God, gave to his Disciples. A strong belief among Christians and Catholics is that there is an eternal life and that our behavior on earth will determine the place where we will finally end up after dying. There is a hell for those who did badly and there is a heaven for those who did well. They also think that some souls remain in the purgatory “(Lat., "purgare", to make clean, to purify) in accordance with Catholic teaching is a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions” (The Catholic Encyclopedia). In this state of limbo between heaven and hell, our souls remain until we earn the right to go to heaven. Whatever the case is, according to Christianity, our actions on earth will determine