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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which country or region, if you feel comfortable sharing?

If most people didn't believe in life after death, what were ways that people coped with suffering and mortality?[/quote]

Embedded here is a false assumption that if you don't believe in life after death, you need a way of coping with suffering and mortality.

Religion makes that connection, but many people do not.

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I’m from Japan. I vaguely know some religious people (maybe a handful) but they are rare.
There’s no connection between  ‘comfort in knowing about some afterlife’ with alleviating suffering.
At least I don’t think it’s intuitive for people who haven’t been told that since early childhood.
How do we cope with life being finite? I don’t know..it just doesn’t sound that depressing I guess?
On the other hand it’s scary to believe in something (life? one’s soul?) that is eternal and lasts forever and ever.
Maybe to us life is like the seasons- constantly changing, coming and going, as they should.
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This sounds good and very healthy. As a former religious believer, I still haven't completely come to terms with death. Not concerned about going to hell -- but going nowhere, i.e., ceasing to exist. 
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What about it concerns you, in particular? There are threads on this that might be helpful. [/quote]

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