ABSTRACT
If we carefully examine history, it is apparent that most
human endeavors focus on risk management. From the
earliest of times, hunter-gatherers managed the risks of an
inconsistent food supply by adapting to an agrarian life-
style only to find a new set of risks to manage as an agrarian
society. Not only do we attempt to manage risk in our
physical world, but we as well assume we can manage
risks outside of our physical world. Religions set forth
varying strategies to help us navigate the risks of an
unknown length of life and prepare for success in the
afterlife, based on what our perceptions of the afterlife
would, could, or should be.
