Please circle the appropriate number below each statement to indicate the degree to which you agree or disagree with that statement.

1.  It is important to lead my life according to my religious beliefs.

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2.  After my death, my life will still have meaning through the lives of my children.

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3.  The fundamental relation between humankind and nature gives my life meaning.

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4.  It is important to write, create, or build something that will exist after my death.

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5.  The meaning of life is determined by my religious beliefs.

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6.  Being part of nature is an important aid in my spiritual fulfillment.

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7.  It is important to know that many of my beliefs, values, and attitudes will continue in my children.

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8.  It is important to know that people will continue to value or use my ideas or things that I have made after my death.

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9.  It is important to follow your religious beliefs in order to assure spiritual attainment after death.

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10.  Since life is so short, it is important to me to enjoy as many pleasurable and exciting things as possible.

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11.  I am in nature and nature is in me.

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12.  It is important to me to have children to carry on my family line.

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13.  Death is a graduation to a higher existence.

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14.  After my death, my life will still have meaning through the things I have made or created.

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15.  Being with nature gives me a sense of peace and tranquility about my life.

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16.  I would do almost anything that would be pleasurable or exciting to me.

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17.  Practicing my religion assures me of eternal peace.

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18.  I would do almost anything to ensure the future of my children.

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19.  Some of the goals I have achieved in my life will continue to benefit people after my death.

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20.  It is important to me to understand one's place in nature and humankind's relationship with all living things.

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21.  I would do almost anything to ensure that I live my life according to my religious beliefs.

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22.  It is important for me to know that I will have a positive effect on the lives of people who live on after my death.

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23.  It is important for me to tell my children about past generations to keep memories of relatives alive.

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24.  I feel most alive when I am alone with nature.

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25.  After I die, I will be with God or in harmony with some higher principle of the universe.

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26.  Long after my death, people will remember that I was here.

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27.  It is important for me to live my life to the fullest by experiencing as much of it as I can.

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28.  It is important to know that my friends and the people that I have been close to will remember me after I am dead.

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29.  Some part of me (that is, my soul or spirit) will continue to exist after my death.

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30.  I feel harmoniously related to nature in such a way that my own death seems unimportant.

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31.  I would do almost anything to ensure that my life made a valuable contribution to my fellow humans.

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32.  My relationship with God and nature are one and the same.

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33.  What makes life meaningful is some of the great experiences that I have had.

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34.  What I have accomplished in my work will continue to benefit people after my death.

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1.  I see death as a passage to an eternal and blessed place.

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2.  I am tired of living.

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3.  I am worried about dying a violent death.

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4.  Death is simply part of the process of life.

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5.  I would neither fear death nor welcome it.

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6.  I don't see any purpose or meaning in prolonging this life.

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7.  I fear dying a painful death.

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8.  I find it difficult to face up to the ultimate fact of death.

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9.  I don't see any point in worrying about death.

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10.  I worry about dying an untimely death.

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11.  I look forward to a life after death.

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12.  I feel that there is nothing to look forward to in this world.

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13.  I believe that I will be in a blissful state after I die.

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14.  I fear dying a slow death.

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15.  Death makes little difference to me one way or another.

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16.  I am resigned to the fact that we all have to die.

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17.  I am disturbed when I think of the shortness of life.

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18.  To fear pain makes sense, but death is merely a relief from pain.

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19.  I believe the afterlife will be a much better place than this world.

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20.  The prospect of my own death arouses anxiety in me.

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21.  I see death as a relief from the burden of this life.

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