MODULE 8: Death

• It is to create an image of the future

  Anticipate
• It means looking forward to a point in time, to assume or prepare beforehand

  Anticipate
• Man's future can never become permanently

  secure
• It requires readiness for the unanticipated


  anticipation
• "We are often taught as if learning could be" preparing in advance for whatever may come."

  David Morris
• "One is born without yet knowing how to be and one does die in the process of learning to die for the [very] first time. Yet one cannot yet fully know how to die, for the lesson can never be complete, since the very one who is learning is the very one who is dying"

  David Morris
• The preparation for death does not demand to understand at once the implication of death; rather it teaches one to:

  Cultivate courage
• No one can ever evade

  Death
• A Platonic Analysis of Death

  After the Day Star
• Pluto: Sunset; Heidegger:


  Garden
• It is a recessing time of the day

  Sunset
• Man needs to differentiate the perfect world from the material world


  Plato
• Man should not devote to things that do not last in this imperfect world


  Plato
• Everything is a fleeting investment of the future

  Pluto
• What merits a second look though is a life


  well lived
• An unexamined life is not worth living


  Socrates
• Self-knowledge becomes an important component to a meaningful life


  Socrates
• "Just as the shoemaker cannot make good shoes unless he understands his material, man cannot construct a good life unless he knows himself"

  Norman Melchert
• He wants man to anticipate the sundown by examining the deeper self


  Plato
• One should know the end to learn how to begin


  Plato
• He encourages detachment from mundane glamor


  Plato
• He means to free the self from the anxiety of life by wading off bodily pleasures and adornments


  Plato
• A true philosopher makes dying his profession
• Heidegger on Death and Ontology

  A Day in the Garden
• It is a place where flowers and plants of various types are refined and cultivated

  Garden
• It is an area where botanical life is relished and nurtured carefully

  Garden
• It is a place where an atmosphere of tranquility comes into view

  Garden
• "A walk through the woods and garden"

  Contemplating
• Jesus visits a garden outside Jerusalem

  Gethsemane
• For him, a garden is a product of dwelling


  Martin Heidegger
• The world is a gift to which one is invited to respond with affection and devotion

  Heidegger
• Each individual is called to nurture the world and the things in it with a sense of responsibility

  Heidegger
• To dwell is to garden


  Heidegger
• It is to let-be, to allow things to come into presence or reveal themselves


  To dwell
• Man is encouraged to accept everything and give importance to the kind of life he is in

  Heidegger
• This process allows man to discover his individuality


  Personal Awareness
• "As soon as man comes to life, he is at once old enough to die"


  Heidegger
• Death and dying are valued and magnified on the level of authentic existence alone

  Heidegger
• The genuineness in living presupposes a recognition of what is humbly

  thrown to an individual
• It is essential to admit that death is not merely an inactivity of the future


  Heidegger