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KMID : 1011120120060010049
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2012 Volume.6 No. 1 p.49 ~ p.67
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Philosophical Understanding of Death
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Ku In-Hoe
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Abstract
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In many cultures death is seen as a natural and inevitable end to life. For the Greeks and early Chinese the acceptance of death as a natural event meant that questions could be posed regarding the possibility of some kind of life after death.
Death has been legally defined as the absence of life. In general, unlike the definition of death, which physicians, physiologists and neuroscientists make. traditionally the problem of life and also it shall be considered as a matter of human nature.
All mortal beings will die in someday. Everyone dies. And human being, who cannot avoid his mortality, doesn’t know about whether he will be alive tomorrow, or not It is an uncertain way, which we are destined to go. It cannot not be measured, as well as cannot be inferred through technology. People die only once, after death it is irreversible.
Philosophically inquiring about the death are the questions regarding the meaning of death, and the epistemological question on death. Without consideration of human death, questions about the nature of man cannot be handled perfectly.
Life and death are inseparable. There must be death, where there is life and there is no death in a lifeless material world. Because there is nothing to die. It means, there is no life in a world without death. Living things change. Immutability is the essence of death.
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KEYWORD
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death, understanding of death, immutability, experience of death, essence of death
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