Almost all people want
their existence to continue all the time. In the past, this desire was
getting satisfied with the faith of religions regarding the immortality
of the spirit. In the modern era, the interest and faith in religion
have diminished and consequently, the soul immortality has been looked
upon with suspicion. Previously, death meant the transition to the other
world; now death is interpreted as the end of a person's existence.
Modern humans, who have doubts, fears, and anxieties about the
continuation of their existence after death, have difficulty in
accepting the fact of death; they try to deny and fight it. However, the
effort to remove death from life puts the fear and worry of death in
the center of life, which leads to the confrontation with very different
results than originally intended. The theme of this study is how modern
individuals look at death, what ways they apply to get it out of their
lives, by what tools they struggle against it and what the consequences
of these efforts are.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Philosophy |
Journal Section | Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | July 21, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 |