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Jacob's Ladder


Jacob's Ladder is a film which draws specific conclusions on exactly what takes
place in a person right before death, and the afterlife which await them. Hell
is seen as a temporary stop where people's memories and attachments are taken
away so that they can enter heaven cleansed of their past life in order that a
new beginning can be had. Death is seen as something that should not be feared,
it only makes your inevitable transition into the next world more difficult,
while being at peace with yourself at death allows the transition to your
afterlife to run smoothly without remorse. Heaven is seen as a good place, a
place of inner tranquillity where there is no pain. The cultural attitudes of
this film in respect to death and afterlife have undertones of the Christian
attitudes toward death and afterlife, although large differences do exist. The
central cultural attitudes toward death and afterlife in this film can be summed
up by a quotation from Jake's......

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