In this article I will discuss Hui, Victoria Ka-Ying, and Peter G. Coleman’s theory on how reincarnation beliefs protect older adult Buddhist against death anxiety and how they all approached this theory. Their theory is that reincarnation is not seen as a mechanism for relieving Chinese Buddhist of their death anxieties but as a way to renew past sufferings due to unwanted karma. When doing their research, they asked various older adults about how they felt about reincarnation and how it is practiced in their culture. They were told that reincarnation helps them get over the anxiety of dying. When they continued their research, they discovered that these beliefs differ among different age groups and people. One example of this is that when
