PHILO 4

• Tuning In: '"I don't mind dying: I just don't want to be there when it happens"'
• Death


  The end of long beginning of human life, losing life to find life, a death to the "self" in order to be born again, a rebirth for a life time
• Human person


  • Temporal
  • Has the beginning as well as an end
  • Life event has its final direction: DEATH
• Death (according to Heidegger)


  Already in the past, but "not yet" in the future, it is the "already and the "not yet" in human existence, an impending possibility and an inevitable reality
• Every human person avoids and abhors death
• Death is a state where humanity has no certain answer what would be the real score after losing this physical and material reality
• After death, all material possessions lose their values
• There is one thing left after death: the longing of immorality and hoping to answer all vague questions concerning the mystery of human existence
• In spite of the advances of medicine, death still occurs to our human vocabulary
• The illusion that our world must become painless and immortal is worse
• Death


  Not the end of life, but a beginning of the cycle of life, a seed must die and fall into the ground from the branches in order to grow again
• Life without death is not life at all
• Pain is very much a part of life
• The greatest illusion a human person can ever have is to believe that in this life, he/she can enjoy life in eternity and live happily ever after
• Death


  Imminent in the nature of a human person, its imminence, possibility, probability and inevitability are recognizable beyond reasonable doubt
• Heidegger: 'Because it is the possibility which is ownmost, death is mine, something that I stand before myself in ownmost potentiality for being, because the issue in death is no other than my being in the world. Death is the possibility of my no- longer – possible, of no- -longer-being-ableto be there: the possibility of being cut off from others and from things'
• Heidegger: 'And this possibility is the possibility that must be something that I cannot outstrip. My being ahead of myself in my projection towards the world with all its possibilities reveals to me my uttermost possibility, distinctively impending, because this possibility is my ownmost which cuts me off from others and which I cannot outstrip'
• Many are indeed ignorant of death as the possibility which is ownmost, non-relational and cannot be outstripped, they are engrossed in immediate concern with things, thus covering up their ownmost being-towards-death, fleeing in the face of it
• The facts remain that they are being- towards-death that man is dying even in his "fallenness" in his being absorbed in everyday world concern
• Authentic being-toward-death


  Anticipation of its possibility, by anticipation of man comes close to death, not by making it actual but by understanding it as a possibility of impossibility of any existence all for him
• Anticipation reveals to man that death means the measureless impossibility of existence, this projection of his utmost impossibility will provide him with the vision of his own present existence, the latent possibilities lying before him