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View submission: A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death (Herbert Fingarette, 1921-2018)
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Comment by [deleted] at 19/01/2020 at 02:39 UTC
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The question is... Why do we consider life to be a finality? Is it because we can't comprehend what comes after? Consider that for billions of years before you were born, you were not quite dead but neither alive. Now alive, you will one day face death. Then, does that not quantify death as an experience that comes after birth, just as life? Being born means you come to life, and returning to the earth means you descend into death, no?
Where you begin and end lies within your ego, but where the spark of life begins and ends lies within a cycle.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/01/2020 at 08:16 UTC
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