Human persons as oriented towards their impending death

• Death

  • The termination of all biological functions that sustain a human person
• Martin Heidegger

  • “The deceased has abandoned our world.”
  • “We are born to die.
  • “Death is a Mystery”
  • “We fear death because no one experience his/her own death"
• Death

  • Inevitable
  • owned by anyone
  • posibility for everyone
  • cannot be shared
  • genuine
• Epicureans Point of View on Death

  • The chief aims of human life is pleasure.
  • eat - drink - be marry
  • The death is the end of life pleasure
• Stoics Point of View on Death

  • “Wisdom is the ultimate end of happiness.
  • “ I cannot escape death, but cannot escape the fear of it?”
  • We cannot control events, but we can control our attitude towards what happens.
• Marxism Point of View on Death

  • Does not believe in the next life.
  • “Death is nothing more than a ‘being genetically determined"
  • "Death is not important”
• Christianity’s Point of View of Death

  • Death is the end of this life and the beginning of the next.
  • It is a punish of sin but in consideration of God’s mercy.