From ancient times to the present, the problem of death has constantly troubled mortal humans. What exactly is death? If the ancients who obeyed the weather were still somewhat optimistic about death, in modern society, due to the support of powerful scientific and technological power, death is increasingly marginalized. People deliberately avoid death, create taboos about death, and create a life and society where there is no death or where death is invisible. The question of what death is is increasingly far away from people's lives and thinking. However, death will not be postponed or cease to exist just because people deliberately avoid it, nor will it give up the meaning of its existence just because people are unwilling to think about it.
The book points out: "Death is a cognitive schema, belief system and meaning system involving human beings before, after and after death." This book combs the biological and social processes of death from the two dimensions of "the end of natural life" and "the disintegration of the living world", which involves both cardiopulmonary death and brain death, the dying period, physiological death, and cardiac death. It explains the specific knowledge and experience of the biological process of death such as death, and explains the social process of death and its legal, economic, and ethical connotations from several perspectives such as the end of citizenship, the end of social relations, and the disintegration of the human world, helping readers understand the true picture of death and understand the inevitability and indispensability of death. This book also explores the philosophical connotation and ultimate meaning of death from the perspectives of "death without dying", "my transcendence" and "return of pure self". In the author's opinion, the truth of death may always be a mystery to all living people, and it is difficult for people to claim to have mastered the ultimate truth of death. However, human beings can "live toward death" and continue to accept death in the process of exploring death, reduce the fear of death, discover the meaning of death, and break through the barriers between life and death in people's consciousness. This has provided a possible opportunity for human beings to transcend death.
Reader comments
Good.
Let people understand the death process and related matters, and prepare for it in advance, so that they can face death more calmly. I personally think it is helpful to life.
It's just that the subsequent explanations of "The Pursuit of Immortality" and "Self-Concept" are a bit boring. Although these are intended to reduce our fear of death, they are theoretical knowledge after all.
You can choose not to watch it. Of course, if you have the patience and happen to be interested, you can continue reading.
To quote:
Without death, we cannot understand life. Without death, we cannot understand the brevity of life. Death is the redemption of life, and death is the conversion of life.
This is undoubtedly a thought-provoking philosophical book, in which the author conducts an in-depth discussion on the eternal topic of "death".
When this book discusses the issue of death, it not only stays at the individual level, but also involves the overall attitude and impact of human beings facing death.
The author's discussion of death is both rational and full of humanistic care, guiding readers step by step to think about the impact of "death" on the meaning and shaping of our lives.
Worth reading.
I have understood the way of life and death. Tomorrow I will use life and death to enter the way and become an immortal.
Talking about death around death
The narration is quite systematic and comprehensive.
From proposing the mystery of death to telling how people who have never experienced death talk about death, all we can do is try our best to guess.
Then focus on various aspects and topics related to death. Companionship and care before death (hospice care) and key points for caregivers; the process of death and the possibility of treatment; the criteria for judgment of death, cardiopulmonary criteria and brain death criteria; death certificates, death certificates; the importance of the deceased making a will to avoid unnecessary disputes and injuries; death obituaries, and the methods and types of obituaries. Finally, the author declares the arrangements before and after his death. I personally agree with this arrangement. It is good to reduce the pain as much as possible. There is no need for various intubations. It would be good if he is pure and respectful after death, and there is no need for prosperity and restraint.
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Death is one of the three major issues in life, and it is also the fate of everyone. I was unable to accept my own death and had to force myself not to think about it. But I still want to explore life and death, but I can't do it. I came across this book, which tells about death from multiple perspectives and gave me a preliminary understanding of death.
He who dies but does not die will live longer
Easy to say, hard to say. If you like it, it's better to take a look. It's a good book.
This book is well written and can help people understand death
A very good explanation and popular science book about death.
Without death, the world is hell
The death of my uncle made me deeply realize that life is impermanent. We must understand and treat our parents well when they are still alive, and we must be worthy of our parents and have no regrets in life.
It made me uncomfortable to listen to the book because the audio and text didn't match each other, but the book was okay.
It's a good book, worth reading twice. It's very logical and clear, and it fits the point of view very well [exploration][exploration][exploration]
Being so small but wanting to think from the perspective of God is worthy of being a human being~
Good. Let people understand the death process and related matters, and prepare for it in advance, so that they can face death more calmly. I personally think it is helpful to life. It's just that the subsequent explanations of "The Pursuit of Immortality" and "Self-Concept" are a bit boring. Although these are intended to reduce our fear of death, they are theoretical knowledge after all. You can choose not to watch it. Of course, if you have the patience and happen to be interested, you can continue reading. To quote: Without death, we cannot understand life. Without death, we cannot understand the brevity of life. Death is the redemption of life, and death is the conversion of life.
This is undoubtedly a thought-provoking philosophical book, in which the author conducts an in-depth discussion on the eternal topic of "death". When this book discusses the issue of death, it not only stays at the individual level, but also involves the overall attitude and impact of human beings facing death. The author's discussion of death is both rational and full of humanistic care, guiding readers step by step to think about the impact of "death" on the meaning and shaping of our lives. Worth reading.
I have understood the way of life and death. Tomorrow I will use life and death to enter the way and become an immortal.
Talking about death around death The narration is quite systematic and comprehensive. From proposing the mystery of death to telling how people who have never experienced death talk about death, all we can do is try our best to guess. Then focus on various aspects and topics related to death. Companionship and care before death (hospice care) and key points for caregivers; the process of death and the possibility of treatment; the criteria for judgment of death, cardiopulmonary criteria and brain death criteria; death certificates, death certificates; the importance of the deceased making a will to avoid unnecessary disputes and injuries; death obituaries, and the methods and types of obituaries. Finally, the author declares the arrangements before and after his death. I personally agree with this arrangement. It is good to reduce the pain as much as possible. There is no need for various intubations. It would be good if he is pure and respectful after death, and there is no need for prosperity and restraint. Haven't read the following content yet
Death is one of the three major issues in life, and it is also the fate of everyone. I was unable to accept my own death and had to force myself not to think about it. But I still want to explore life and death, but I can't do it. I came across this book, which tells about death from multiple perspectives and gave me a preliminary understanding of death.
He who dies but does not die will live longer
Easy to say, hard to say. If you like it, it's better to take a look. It's a good book.
This book is well written and can help people understand death
A very good explanation and popular science book about death.
Without death, the world is hell
The death of my uncle made me deeply realize that life is impermanent. We must understand and treat our parents well when they are still alive, and we must be worthy of our parents and have no regrets in life.
It made me uncomfortable to listen to the book because the audio and text didn't match each other, but the book was okay.
It's a good book, worth reading twice. It's very logical and clear, and it fits the point of view very well [exploration][exploration][exploration]
Being so small but wanting to think from the perspective of God is worthy of being a human being~