The Good Funeral Guide Blog
Thursday, 12 January 2012
It’s natural to fear death and you might think that, just as naturally, religion would help you face and overcome your fears. But it ain’t necessarily so. In a recent book, Society Without God, Anne, a 43 year old Hospice nurse from Aarhus in Denmark is interviewed. The author, Robert Zuckerman records that … “She told me that in her many years of experience working with the dying, she found that it was generally the atheists who had an easier time calmly accepting their fate, while Christians had the hardest time facing death, often being racked with worry and anxiety.”
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RELATED LINK
Scandinavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists (New York Times, Feb 27, 2009)
