Less than two out of ten either tend to doubt it or believe death is, indeed, the end. This proportion of believers is significantly less than the American population at large. Not surprisingly, religiosity has a profound role in shaping students' understandings of death. A joining of the spirit with a universal cosmic consciousness. Termination of this life but with survival of the spirit.
Most deaths result directly from the conscious efforts by the persons who die.
462 As can be seen, the greater individuals' religiosity the greater their attribution of personal complicity. Those claiming to only some or no interest declined slightly from 41 percent to 36 percent. At a minimum, one would sure know how to pace expenditures of retirement savings. In light of the growing sense of importance of mourning ritual we saw above, perhaps this impressive decline in the percentage of students disapproving of personally being displayed in an open casket should come as no surprise. Here we can see the rapid dissipation of nuclear war concerns with the ending of the Cold War .