Taking+The+Sting+Out+Of+Death+A+Christian+Educational+Perspective

Riley, Clarence E., Jr., and Gregory Green. "Taking The Sting Out Of Death: A Christian Educational Perspective." Education 133.1 (2012): 158-170. ERIC. Web. 15 June 2016.

This article outlines the methods Clarence Riley has found useful in assisting with the mourning process for those who have recently lost loved ones. Riley is a Christian, and this article goes in depth in provides insight into the American Christian culture of dealing with loss, in this case utilizing religion and using Biblical teachings to overcome grief. In the Christian faith, the death of the physical body is believed to release your soul into eternal life; if those who have passed are saved, their soul has been released to Heaven. This knowledge provides comfort to those the deceased has left behind.

Riley's article is an insightful first-hand account of how someone in the American Christian culture deals with the loss of a loved one. Having lots of first-hand experience myself in the Southern Baptist area in my life, his article is very much accurate in the way it portrays the culture.