Daoism used mystical religious concepts to explain the difficult problem of death, and developed the idea that the flesh need not die, but could pass directly from this world into the next. This contrasts with how other religions, in seeking eternal life for the soul, actually regard the death of the physical body as a release.
道教以神秘的宗教理念解釋死亡的難題，發展出肉體不死，可由此世直通彼世的說法，不似其他宗教為尋求靈魂永生，反視肉體死亡為解脫。