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  • Yes, but they are probably not what you are used too attending. Consider the following: " The Church of Christ, Scientist, on the other hand, does not designate special arrangements or rituals for funerals or mourning and a funeral service is optional. Since the Christian Science church has no clergy, the service is conducted by a Christian Scientist who might be a reader or a Christian science practitioner or teacher, or a friend of the deceased. (A 'practitioner' is an experienced Christian Scientist who, on a professional basis, devotes full time to the healing ministry. Individuals enter the public practice of Christian Science as a life work only after demonstrating a consistent ability to heal others through Christian Scientific prayer.) The format and content of a Christian Science funeral service are determined by the family or whoever conducts the service. However, the service typically consists of readings from the King James Bible and from Science and health with key to the scriptures or some other writing by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. The service usually includes no personal remarks or eulogy, but the family's wishes are taken into account. Christian Scientists have neither a prescribed period of mourning nor specific customs of mourning". Also,concerning death, they believe that, "Death is the belief in death. There is no death as humans are immortal spirit. After that which we call "death," spiritual development toward Truth continues until all evil, or "error," destroys itself. Heaven and hell are not places, but states of consciousness that continue after death. "Heaven" is the self-made eternal bliss of realizing oneness with God. "Hell" is the self-made anguish of believing in pain and death”.

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