ATTITUDE TOWARDS DEATH
"In a certain sense, the acid test of a religion is how it 'teaches its followers to look on death. In the West we all of us seem to be terrified of death. But I believe that this is not the case in the East,” said Mr Anthony Weymouth in, a recent Empire broadcast, addressing Sir Zafrulla Khan, member of the Ciceroy’s Executive Council of India. “It is true on the whole,” agreed Sir Zafrulla Khan, “that we stand in far less terror of death than people do in the West. There is certainly no feeling of horror attached to the idea of death. It is regarded as a transition from a less happy to a happier state of existence, and among some people, when a person dies at a ripe age, there is actual rejoicing, rather on behalf of the person who has departed this life than expressing the feelings of the survivors.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 5
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