Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The soul is the guide.
In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. This includes belief in resurrection, reincarnation or rebirth or that consciousness permanently ceases to exist, known as eternal oblivion.
This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem "dheu- meaning the "Process, act, condition of dying"
One of the challenges in defining deaths is in distinguishing it from life.
As a point in time, death would seem to refer to the moment at which life ends.
However, determining when death has occurred requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death.
This is problematic because there is little consensus over how to define life.
This general problem applies to the particular challenge of defining death in the context of medicine.
This made possible to define life in terms of consciousness.
When consciousness ceases, a living organism can be said to have died.
Another problem is in defining consciousness, which has many different definitions given by many philosophers, psychologists and scientists.
But, what I want to say that Death has no subjective meaning at all. It will come to other people, but never to me.
Of course, I know that I am going to die. Death means the end of my future.
However, as long as I am alive, I will be living toward that future possibility of no longer having possibilities.
Death and its concept are absolutely empty.
No picture comes to mind.
The concept of death has a use for the living, while death itself has no use for anything. All we can say about death is that it is either real or it is not real.
If it is real, then the end of one’s life is a simple termination.
If it is not real, then the end of one’s embodied life is not true death, but a portal to another life.
What do you think ?
Life is the traveller.
The soul is the guide.
In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. This includes belief in resurrection, reincarnation or rebirth or that consciousness permanently ceases to exist, known as eternal oblivion.
This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem "dheu- meaning the "Process, act, condition of dying"
One of the challenges in defining deaths is in distinguishing it from life.
As a point in time, death would seem to refer to the moment at which life ends.
However, determining when death has occurred requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death.
This is problematic because there is little consensus over how to define life.
This general problem applies to the particular challenge of defining death in the context of medicine.
This made possible to define life in terms of consciousness.
When consciousness ceases, a living organism can be said to have died.
Another problem is in defining consciousness, which has many different definitions given by many philosophers, psychologists and scientists.
But, what I want to say that Death has no subjective meaning at all. It will come to other people, but never to me.
Of course, I know that I am going to die. Death means the end of my future.
However, as long as I am alive, I will be living toward that future possibility of no longer having possibilities.
Death and its concept are absolutely empty.
No picture comes to mind.
The concept of death has a use for the living, while death itself has no use for anything. All we can say about death is that it is either real or it is not real.
If it is real, then the end of one’s life is a simple termination.
If it is not real, then the end of one’s embodied life is not true death, but a portal to another life.
What do you think ?
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