Life on earth is the one and only chance for people to prepare themselves for the life to come and choose to either believe or not believe in God, and death is the end of that learning opportunity. Judaism
There are a variety of beliefs about the afterlife within Judaism, but none of them contradict the preference of life over death. This is partially because death puts a cessation to the possibility of fulfilling any commandments. Language
The word "death" comes from Old English dēaþ, which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (reconstructed by etymological analysis). This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem *dheu- meaning the "process, act, condition of dying".The concept and symptoms of death, and varying degrees of delicacy used in discussion in public forums, have generated numerous scientific, legal, and socially acceptable terms or euphemisms. When a person has died, it is also said they have "passed away", "passed on", "expired", or "gone", among other socially accepted, religiously specific, slang, and irreverent terms. As a formal reference to a dead person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of "decease", as in "the deceased"; another noun form is "decedent". Bereft of life, the dead person is a "corpse", "cadaver", "body", "set of remains" or, when all flesh is gone, a "skeleton". The terms "carrion" and "carcass" are also used, usually for dead non-human animals. The ashes left after a cremation are lately called "cremains". See also
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Further reading
Cochem, Martin of (1899). "On Death" . The four last things: death, judgment, hell, heaven. Benziger Brothers.
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. (1856). "Considerations on Death" . St. Vincents Manual. John Murphy & Co.
Liguori, Alphonsus (1868). Preparation for Death . Rivingtons. Marques, Susana Moreira (13 October 2015). Now and At the Hour of Our Death. Translated by Sanches, Julia. And Other Stories. ISBN 978-1-908276-62-9. Massillon, Jean-Baptiste (1879). "On Death" . Sermons by John-Baptist Massillon. Thomas Tegg & Sons. Rosenberg, David (17 August 2014). "How One Photographer Overcame His Fear of Death by Photographing It (Walter Schels Life Before Death)". Slate. Sachs, Jessica Snyder (2001). Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death (270 pages). Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7382-0336-2. Warraich, Haider (2017). Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life. St. Martins Press. ISBN 978-1250104588. External links

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"Death". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2016. "Death" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 898–900. Best, Ben. "Causes of Death". BenBest.com. Retrieved 10 June 2016. Schels, Walter; Lakotta, Beate. "Before and After Death". LensCulture.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2016. Interviews with people dying in hospices, and portraits of them before, and shortly after, death. U.S. Census. "Causes of Death 1916". AntiqueBooks.net (scanns). Archived from the original on 18 September 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2016. How the medical profession categorized causes of death. Wald, George. "The Origin of Death". ElijahWald.com. A biologist explains life and death in different kinds of organisms, in relation to evolution.