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.
| 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 |
Open Court Death: the gnostic experience in jungian philosophy and contemporary culture, paperback/herbert fingarette
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