| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Heaven | A place of paradise where God rules |
| Hell | A place of horrors where Satan rules |
| Immortality | the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
| Purgatory | a place where Catholics believe souls go after death to be purified |
| Resurrection | the belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
| Paranormal | unexplained things that are thought to have spiritual causes, for example, ghosts and mediums |
| Sanctity of Life | the belief that life is sacred and belongs to God |
| Abortion | the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
| Contraception | preventing conception from occurring. There are various forms of artificial contraception. |
| Assisted suicide | providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
| euthanasia | an easy and gentle death |
| non-voluntary euthanasia | ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but when there is a good reason for thinking they would want death, for example, switching off a life support machine |
| voluntary euthanasia | the situation where someone dying in pain asks a doctor who end his/her life painlessly |
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