Many religions and philosophies attempt to answer the question: What happens after a person dies? Some religions such as Christianity and Islam believe that there is an afterlife. They believe that good, moral people enter Heaven or Paradise and that bad, immoral people go to Hell. Other religions and cultures believe that death is final and that nothing happens after a person dies. Buddhism and Hinduism have a different idea of ​​death. Both of these religions originated in India. Buddhists and Hindus believe that death is not final. They believe that a person returns after death. This process is known as reincarnation and gives people the opportunity to enter the world multiple times in different forms. Buddhists and Hindus want to re-enter the world as human beings and want to improve their status through reincarnation. In ancient India, many members of the lower castes wanted to return as members of the upper castes. While this is an important goal of reincarnation, the main goal is to achieve moksha (Hinduism) or nirvana (Buddhism). In other words, the goal is to reach a point of spiritual enlightenment that distances the person from the reincarnation process. Geoff Childs, an anthropologist examines the views of the Buddhist religion by studying the lives of people in Tibetan villages. Examine issues that negatively impact these people such as infant mortality. Look carefully at the lives of people who have been left behind by deceased loved ones, and pay particular attention to the customs and traditions surrounding the death. Tibetan Buddhists see death as a means to spiritual perfection and seek to reach this level of spiritual perfection by living spiritually meaningful lives...... middle of paper... death is not a cessation in Buddhism. Death can be seen as a new beginning. A new opportunity to achieve spiritual perfection. Infant mortality is a difficult topic to talk about for many Tibetan parents. Survivors often face poverty and other extreme hardships after the loss of a loved one. However, Buddhism offers great comfort to survivors by teaching that earthly bodies are impermanent. Tibetan cremation procedures place great importance on reincarnation. Tibetan views on death focus on nirvana and spiritual perfection. These practices are spiritually significant for both living survivors and the dead. Works Cited1 Geoff Childs Tibetan Diary From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) 41. 2 Ibid., 54. 3Ibid., 54. 4 Ibid., 54 5 Ibid., 146. 6 Ibid.., 147.