The nature of death
May 28, 2024 20:18:37 GMT
Post by Stella on May 28, 2024 20:18:37 GMT
It's interesting to me that, in Western culture at least, the concept of reincarnation has been stripped down almost completely to become a synonym of life after death. Part of my keen fascination with capital punishment has been the different perspectives and beliefs many different people have towards death. Indeed one of the weirdest of all human concepts is the notion that you can somehow 'punish' a human being by murdering them, and then turn round and reserve such punishment for the worst of the worst of murders.
I cannot even begin to fathom such an attitude or belief. Death is something which affects the living far more than it affects someone who dies. Does this mean that there are worse deaths and better deaths? Is there some kind of league table where certain deaths are better and far more acceptable and certain deaths are much worse and to be avoided? Personally for me dead is dead, and each and every death of a human being impacts on other human beings and the experience of a bereavement is a unique and individual process. Each and every single death is a tragedy to be mourned because death always takes someone who is loved away from other people.....continue reading
I cannot even begin to fathom such an attitude or belief. Death is something which affects the living far more than it affects someone who dies. Does this mean that there are worse deaths and better deaths? Is there some kind of league table where certain deaths are better and far more acceptable and certain deaths are much worse and to be avoided? Personally for me dead is dead, and each and every death of a human being impacts on other human beings and the experience of a bereavement is a unique and individual process. Each and every single death is a tragedy to be mourned because death always takes someone who is loved away from other people.....continue reading