Description
Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation. He thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth. Fingarette goes on to discuss living a future without end and living a present without bounds. The author offers no facile consolation, but he identifies the true root of fear of death, and explains how the meaning of death can be reconceived.
Author: Herbert Fingarette
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 02/05/1999
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.06w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780812693300
ISBN10: 0812693302
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Death & Dying
- Philosophy | Movements | Humanism
Author: Herbert Fingarette
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 02/05/1999
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.06w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780812693300
ISBN10: 0812693302
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Death & Dying
- Philosophy | Movements | Humanism
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