Usually a physical death: permanent state after the end of life, where all vital functions stop. Sometimes in a different context, e.g. spiritual death
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What can make death not a bad thing?
Other than survival, personal or otherwise, what would make death harmless? People talk about living happy and meaningful lives and not wasting the time they have, but is that all that can be said about it, select your value and strive best to have…
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How to think about exploiting the body of a dead slave
In a museum in Cuba, the skeleton of a slave is on display. He is named, and he died near the end of Cuban slavery, about 1880. He died in his twenties.
I stood looking into the display case. Of course, it was fascinating. I thought:
This is the…
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How can an attitude toward death be 'appropriate', but unwelcome?
Source: The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (1 edn, 2017). pp. 137 Bottom - 138 Top.
In addition to asking what attitudes toward death are appropriate, we might ask what attitude we ought to have. Some might think…
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Sleep and Death
If sleeping without dreaming (as I usually do) is somewhat akin to being dead (at least as far as our experience in a dreamless sleep is concerned), why are we, then, so very feared of death, but do like to sleep so much?
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Why is all fear said to ultimately stem from the fear of death?
Is there a philosophical explanation behind the following statement:
All fear is ultimately the ego's fear of death.
I heard this phrase in Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. I am having difficulty understanding or accepting the idea, although I feel…
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What is the biological logic behind the respect of the dead?
I was wondering if we should respect dead bodies. The thing is that I feel I cannot show a disrespectful behavior towards a dead relative or a pet, but I cannot find any logical/rational argument for it.
I mean, I think there is no practical…
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Why's it hard to say exactly when a misfortune befalls an injured whiz?
Source: The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (1 edn, 2017). p. 113 Bottom.
“Atemporalism”: Still others have suggested that it may be possible for good or bad to befall a person without it always being possible to…
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Models of philosophy and what happens at the moment of death
What are the different models various schools of philosophy have proposed about what actually happens at the moment of death? Do any of them avoid the necessity to theorize a soul, or to consider the perspectives of anyone other than the person…
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What does Luper mean with these lines about death?
"There is another consequence of the view that the evilness of death derives from the goodness of the life death takes from us: disquiet concerning death is the other face of love for life."
These are lines from the book Philosophy of Death, by…
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Is there a rational response to the idea that my death is the ultimate evil?
Is there a rational response to the idea that my death is the ultimate evil? I'm asking just because I can't think of useful response, assuming my death is necessary -- inescapable, and most philosophers would I think agree that all men are mortal.…
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Can "my death" be an abstract entity?
Can "my death" be an abstract entity? I don't think it's a universal, because, in the manner I mean it, "my death" only occurs once. But, and this is what motivates the question, it seems strange to say that it's an abstract entity, because as soon…
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Why is death considered a big problem?
I have recently watched this rather old TED presentation - A philosophical quest for our biggest problems.
The first big problem is considered death:
death is a big problem. If you look at the statistics, the odds are
not very favorable to us. So…
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If humans are an impermanent entity
If the phenomenological world is observed to lack permanent, unchanging entities, and humans finding themselves in such an experience, are also impermanent entities, how can any rational philosophy attribute a permanent property - death - to them?
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Could the period before the Big Bang be compared to the period after death?
It is often said that it is illogical to have something come out of nothing. Therefore could the period before the Big Bang be the same as the period after death or before birth which cannot be described as nothing or something.
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What is the meaning of death?
I would want what is the meaning of death. Some people have different opinions:
Death is an enfeeble form of life.
Death is a continuation of life.
Death is perpetual development.
Death is waiting.
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