People With University Degree Fear Death Less 473
An anonymous reader writes "People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level. In addition, fear of death is more common among women than men, which affects their children's perception of death."
Grad studies (Score:5, Funny)
Dilbert (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed (Score:5, Funny)
But they fear typographical errors much more :-)
Re:What about the people in US Government? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Odd. (Score:5, Funny)
Honestly, I can't for the life of me see why theists think that religion brings peace and comfort
Religion brings money and political power. If you can't derive peace and comfort from those, there's no hope for you!
Re:Odd. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Odd. (Score:4, Funny)
Just wait til you graduate from "I can't even tell anymore whether I'm trolling at any given time."
I hope they weren't being literal (Score:5, Funny)
From the article:
at present, the education system does not have any formal and systematic method to deal with death in class. If death were introduced in the education system, children would have a more real and intense approach to life, and many of the problems derived from the mourning process in the adulthood would be prevented.
I hope they mean the topic of death rather than death itself. I don't really want our teachers killing anybody as an object lesson.
Clearly! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Odd. (Score:5, Funny)
It's a lot easier in the pulpit than it is in the pews.
Hell, you just have to pass around a plate and people put their hard-earned money on it. As a former altar boy I was fascinated by the collection. In my church, they had guys come down the aisle with these baskets with long handles, because they were afraid to pass a plate and tempt the believers with actually handling a dishful of money. It seemed like a great racket, and I may have gone into the church business, until I learned that the Priests got zero pussy. I remember asking my older brother what kind sex Father Moran was getting, and when he answered "None", I thought he said "Nun" and figured he was banging Sister Margaret Mary. Well, Sister Margaret Mary was a dead ringer for Dick Cheney, so I figured maybe there were better rackets to make an easy buck. That's when I decided to become an English major. Well, it was a long while before I started making any real money, and by then I had to join another kind of priesthood called "Academia", but I got to bang a lot of goth chicks (or what would be called goth today), who looked a whole lot better than Sister Mary Margaret. By the way, if you're college age and you're staying away from the goth chicks because you think they'd be no fun in the sack, don't be a dope. The pale makeup and dour expression both come off when they get a few drinks in them and they turn into more fun than Chucky Cheese on weed.
Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah. Religion. Fuck them. And if you're an altar boy wondering what kind of sex your priest gets, stop wondering right now and run away because it's a trap!
Re:Odd. (Score:4, Funny)
if you're an altar boy wondering what kind of sex your priest gets, stop wondering right now and run away because it's a trap!
Please never mention sex in the same sentence as "it's a trap!" again - horrifying mental images result!
Re:Odd. (Score:4, Funny)
I think there is a part of the Bible that says the only unforgivable sin, the only thing that can keep you from going to heaven, is the complete and absolute rejection of God. However, since God is infinite and unknowable you can't really reject him completely. You can reject the parts you know about, but not the parts you don't know about. You might not even want to reject those parts if you did know about them. Ergo, no one goes to hell.