Death in Different ReligionsDeath has a great impact on people's lives such that they learn to appreciate life or even live it to the fullest. But what happens to us after death? Many religions have answered this question according to their faith. Buddhism is a religion in which Buddhists believe in the concept of death and reincarnation or rebirth. On the other hand, Christians believe that after death you enter a period of dormancy and until the second coming of Jesus you will be awakened and decide your fate whether you will go to heaven or hell depending on how you lived your life. Christianity teaches salvation from sin through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Through Him we also obtain the gift of eternal life. Christianity began as a missionary religion and has become the most widespread faith in the world today. It focuses on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The traditional story of Jesus tells of the birth, in a stable in Bethlehem in the Holy Land, of a young virgin called Mary, who became pregnant with the son of God through the work of the Holy Spirit. The story of Jesus' birth is told in the writings of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament of the Bible. The New Testament, a collection of twenty-seven books written in the century following Jesus' death in AD 30, has been significant in shaping the teachings, ethics, rituals, organization, and mission of the church in the world (Van Voorst 245) . Christians believe that his birth is the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Jewish Old Testament which stated that a Messiah would free the Jewish people from captivity ("The Basics"). Christians ultimately believe in two places to go after death, Heaven where eternity is spent in a state that is beautiful beyond our ability to conceive, or Hell, where eternity is spent with Satan and his demons. All are tormented and tortured, isolated from God, without any hope of mercy or relief (Robinson). Many Christians believe that when a person dies, he enters complete oblivion - a state of non-existence. They remain dormant. At the time of Jesus' second coming, the dead are resurrected and judged. Those who were saved while on earth will be given special bodies and will go to Heaven unlike the unsaved who will go to Hell for eternal punishment (Robinson).