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• The students are expected to explain the significance of death in the existence of the person and recognize the meaning of his/her own life.
• Catholic belief is that the meaning of life lies in our resurrection from the dead, there is life after death, and the soul is immortal.
• Hindu belief is that the meaning of life follows the law of Karma, and when you die, your soul will be reincarnated into a different form depending on what you did in your previous life.
• Pure materialist Democritus believed that there is no meaning to what we are doing apart from what we are doing now, and when we die, the body and the souls which Democritus also believed to be made up of atoms, will one day disintegrate in thin air.
• The answers about what happens to us after we die remain a matter of belief.
• While there is nothing wrong with anchoring your life in religious beliefs, it is important to remain open to the truth of uncertainty.
• No one is ever sure, because no one, not even the atheist who thinks that there is nothing out there after death, has ever come back after they died.
• All human persons are equal in ignorance in the face of death.
• Martin Heidegger was the first philosopher in the history of thought to have brought human mortality to the center stage of philosophy.
• Heidegger found it important to reflect on death because it is the most fundamental question that a human being must learn to face.
• If we do not reflect on our deaths, chances are, we are not living an authentic life.
• The task of Philosophy is not to provide another answer to the question of what happens after death, but to ask the question what is the meaning of our lives in the face of uncertainty of what happens after death.
• Death is the end of bodily functions which signals the end of a person’s life and also refers to the separation of body and the soul.
• The body, being material, is bound by laws of time and space and is subject to growth, death, and decay.
• The spirit, being immaterial, will continue to exist even after the body has passed.
• Everything that came to being in this universe will eventually come to an end.
• While there is no freedom in the inevitability of death, we have the freedom to live our lives well or not.
• Temporality challenges us to make choices that will be good for us and the people around us.
• According to ancient Greek philosophers, Happiness is an achievement and must be gained by living a productive and moral life.
• Good is a source of happiness and it has three kinds: Noble Good, which is pursued for its own sake; Useful Good, which is considered good so long as it serves as a means to an end; and Pleasurable Good, which is good so long as it provides some form of pleasure, though it doesn’t have to be physical.
• As we approach our death, we experience both happiness and suffering.
• Happiness like success cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
• The human person is put on this earth to live a meaningful life, to be virtuous, and to achieve excellence.
• Some philosophers view the end as a terminus which means the full-stop or end of a line.
• The kind of happiness that can be gained from a good is closely tied to its nature.
• Real happiness can be found in more permanent and meaningful things.
• Although we are oriented towards our death, death is not the goal of life.
• Ultimately, the acceptance of our temporality can bring about a sense of freedom in us and give us a clearer purpose and focus on our activities.
• Happiness is a state of being, not just an emotional experience or a chosen mental attitude.
• For others, the end is telos which means “goal, purpose, or fulfillment”.
• We are born into human life, we grow and age, and we eventually die.
• This paradox defines the uniqueness of human existence.
• We must embrace the fact that death is an integral part of our life.