Pain is reduced during the Near-Death Experience, and may have meaning within religious frameworks Religion is a tradition-borne and faith-based organized system of beliefs, symbols, rituals, attitudes, standards, and practices. With monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the belief system is based on an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all-knowing God, who has varying degrees of control in the believers lives. Spirituality is also faith-based, but it can be attained without the involvement of organized religion. Using prayer, meditation or a trance, a person tries to understand life and its meaning and to connect with God, a higher power, a universal consciousness or nature. A spiritual individual is a moral, kind, caring person who respects others, animals and nature With almost every individual that I have examined and every case report that I have read, no matter how intense the pain, as soon as the person has a NDE, the pain stops (Morse, 2000). Then, once the individual is resuscitated, the pain returns Pain and suffering have purposes within fundamentalist Christian interpretation of scripture