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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Maybe concern isn't the word.  Maybe it's coming to terms with the fact that everything, including me, goes away, not to be remembered. and even if it is remembered (Let's say, if I'm Abraham Lincoln) I'm not there in any form to know about it.

Yes, I have family who will likely, hopefully,  survive me, but they will go away too, at some point.  Yes. I have done some good things, that will survive me, but ......

Yes, I can and do enjoy the moment, but the moment ends and disappears.

Thinking you'll die and go to heaven and "look down" at the goings on here or see your family again is comforting but crazy.  Thinking that you just disappear, for me is not easy to come to terms with. So I try to enjoy the moment and make the most of my good life.[/quote]

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