Talk:Death and culture

biased section
I am removing the abortion section. It is completely unsourced, uses loaded terms, and has no place in the article. YVNP (talk) 08:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Birth in heaven
In Christianity, there is a popular notion that death is a second birth, a kind of birth in heaven, especially for saints. It would be interesting if there could be a note on that. ADM (talk) 13:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

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 * Hello. This article was overall very helpful in the understanding of death and its meaning throughout different countries, cultures, and religions. The facts were referenced correctly, however a lot of the facts came from websites that were not considered a 100% reliable source for information. The article stayed relevant to the topic of Death and culture throughout, however there was one section in specific where I felt myself getting distracted from the point of the article: the section on warfare. I understand the importance of background information, however, personally I was getting distracted. The viewpoints throughout the article remain relatively neutral, however, there were some places where religion was talked about and there were some religions that were underrepresented. For example, Christianity and Islam were talked about several times, but I wish there were more information on how other religions, like Judaism or Buddhism, reacted to death. I have a few suggestions to improve this article. First, I would include more recent information for topics such as suicide and suicide attacks. Unfortunately, terrorism exists in the world and there are examples of suicide bombers taking the lives of innocent people as well as themselves. Second, I would include a wider range of religions when the topic of settlement of dead bodies and grief practices is discussed. Lastly, I think there were a lot of different topics talked about throughout the article. The focus was death and culture; I would have loved to read more in-depth about how different cultures around the world treat death and react to it. Overall, this article was very informational and it was worth the read!Berman madison (talk) 01:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Help Wanted: Resources for Death in Mythology/Religion/Traditions
Recent vandalism over at List of death deities exposed a real issue with the selection criteria for that article. Specifically, most of the entities listed either are not deities per se (think San Pascualito and Gede Nibo), or they are gods, but not gods explicitly of death (think Hades and Anubis). Finding wording to define what is and is not appropriate for such an article is a challenge, and sourcing is a nightmare. A scholarly search for 'death' yields several thousand years of writing about grief and loss, and adding 'god', 'myth' or 'religion' gets you into a quagmire of Abrahamic and Buddhist dissertations that lead in circles. Does anyone here have recommendations for tertiary works or overviews that might help? If so, could you respond here or join the discussion over at List of death deities? Please & Thank You, Last1in (talk) 13:18, 13 September 2023 (UTC)