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Dankje, and no, I don't mind.
There's a difference between fear and avoidance. It's a relatively universal tendancy to avoid death. I think however that many, perhaps even most, people fear death— not in an all-consuming way, but when it is presented to them as an immediate reality. The very question of the cessation of one's being, the unknowable divide that has led to numerous spiritual theories and consequently the worry of being on the wrong side of those theories, the worry that the reaper will come and tear them away from all they love... these are what concerns them. Consequently fear of death would be a common reason to seek to prolong one's life, though certainly not the only one.
If people did not fear death but just accepted it as something to avoid, then why would there be such consternation over suicide and euthanasia?
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Date: 2006-07-24 08:52 pm (UTC)From:Dankje, and no, I don't mind.
There's a difference between fear and avoidance. It's a relatively universal tendancy to avoid death. I think however that many, perhaps even most, people fear death— not in an all-consuming way, but when it is presented to them as an immediate reality. The very question of the cessation of one's being, the unknowable divide that has led to numerous spiritual theories and consequently the worry of being on the wrong side of those theories, the worry that the reaper will come and tear them away from all they love... these are what concerns them. Consequently fear of death would be a common reason to seek to prolong one's life, though certainly not the only one.
If people did not fear death but just accepted it as something to avoid, then why would there be such consternation over suicide and euthanasia?