The book offered to the reader reveals in detail topics important for every Christian: death and immortality, private judgment, the end of the century and the afterlife, the narration of which is based on the Holy Scripture and Tradition, the sayings of the holy fathers, theologians and Christian philosophers. The author-compiler sets out in detail how, according to Christian doctrine, a person’s last journey in this world is accomplished, what are the traditions of burial and commemoration of an Orthodox Christian and what awaits his soul after death... In addition to the book, E. Tikhomirov provides historical ideas about the immortality of the soul , existing among different peoples of the world.

The book will be useful not only to Orthodox Christians, but also to everyone interested in “eternal” questions.