The essential Buddhist teachings are that ignorance leads to attachment and aversion which in turn lead to greater suffering. The Buddha taught that if you increase your ignorance you are likely to experience greater suffering.
Most Americans believe in the afterlife. (life after death)
The only thing that Buddhists feel is proper to desire is enlightenment. The desire for all other things leads to suffering.
No. Buddhists do believe that misfortunes are sometimes do to harmful actions performed in the past, either in this life or in previous lives.
Buddhists Don't believe in destroying living creatures. Buddhists believe In Karma and depending on how you act now will depend who you are in your next life. Buddhists believe life is an endless cycle where you are reborn after death, repeatedly. Buddhists believe you should not drink alcohol or take drugs. Lastly that there is no god who created earth, there is just guidance.
The existence of an afterlife is important to those who believe in such things as that as, if the y reach the "good" afterlife it will confirm that they were right all their life. Most believers in an afterlife do not give much thought to what happens if they were wrong.To believers in many non Abrahamic faiths do not see the afterlife in the same manner as the typical western their. It becomes, for Buddhists as a an example, a loss of personal identity and a merging with a selfless whole. This loss of desire and identity is seen as a desirable state/ For atheists and apatagnostics there is no concern with an afterlife even if it exists. SO it is not important.
It was the ancient egyptain belief that when you die you enter the afterlife. The afterlife was their version of heaven, their idea of life after death. They believed that though their life would end as they knew it, they would have very similar experiences in the afterlife. These experiences would be perfection of the projected thing in this life.
Reincarnation is the belief that after death our soul enters, or we are reborn as another living thing, IE. a blade of grass or an animal. Some religions that believe this don't eat animals for this reason. Afterlife is the belief that after death we go to live in another place. The most common afterlife belief is the Christian doctrine of heaven.
Although Buddhists may examine and study the origins of life they are more concerned that it did come to be without examining the cause. Unlike the Abrahamic faiths who require a deity to be the main mover for the formation of life Buddhists would be as happy with life originating as a natural and chemical process.
Aboriginals believes that death is not the end of life
Because, if the pharaohs heart weighed more than an ostrich they will go to the afterlife and live a Good life on.
Humans know that this life is certain. Even believers know, deep down, that the afterlife is really a matter of faith. Why give up enjoyment in this life in the mere hope of a more glorious afterlife. Furthermore, many religious people are confident of their reward in the next life, while others believe there is little they can do to change their destinies.
Pioneers believe life is suppose to be harsh and in there afterlife there will be wealth.