RELS 1500

What is it like after you die? The starting point of this course is the fact that it is always like something, because it seems we cannot help but imagine existence after death, whether material—in the form of a dirty skeleton--or a spirit in a blessed afterlife, from the viewpoint of the dead or of the living. If by our nature death demands a creative response from us, then that response is a key part of what it means to be human.