Thought Experiment

Thought Experiment

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[Name of the institution appears here] The fear of death is natural for all human beings regardless of race or culture and perhaps the only thing that separates the fear among different cultures are the vast array of concepts and views pertaining to it . After the concept of a higher being , death is perhaps the second most philosophically debated and rightly so , because as the text supplied to us said we can and must postulate , as reasonably as possible , what our end has

in store for us

Historically speaking , the fear of death itself has been a hotly debated and has even been used for ulterior motives such as the case of the Catholic Church and their concept of plenary indulgence . In more recent times the fear of death has even been used as an incentive fundamentalist Muslims have turned the fear into something that should be welcomed and coupled with the promise of seventy-seven virgins in the afterlife , has itself been used to persuade impressionable people into wearing vest bombs

Fear is indeed a great motivator and yes , few things can compete with the fear of death but I beg to differ about it and I 'll even go so far as to say that not only should you not fear death but you should in all sense of the word , welcome that fear and turn it into something positive

Following the arguments from the texts given to us , the first thing we should consider is the question of whether it is rational to fear death Of course , death being unable to exist at the same time and place as you can therefore not harm you and should not be feared . The fear of death is irrational in all respects according to this argument and rightly so Unfortunately , there are such things as irrational fears and I suspect that the fear of death has enough magnitude to trump rationality -at least most of the time

It is a given fact that we do indeed fear death regardless of whether it is rational or irrational to do so . In that regard , what other choices are there ? Death being a fact of life means that we can do nothing else about it but to simply accept it . We can of course at this point minimize the fear of death by proving that it is not death itself that should be feared but rather a life unlived

The badness ' of death can actually depend on what would have happened to a person if that person 's death had not taken place . Suppose then that some very old and unhappy person dies and considering that further life would inevitably only lead to more pain for this person then dying is not so bad for him (Feldman 140 . Some may even see death for this person as a blessing and arguably , this is where one should start looking as death as more than something...