DEATH + BEYOND pt 1
The most cheerful topic of them all: Death and Beyond
Definitions
Attitudes
Secular perspectives
Coming soon...religious beliefs
- Created by: CFH
- Created on: 16-06-14 10:06
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- DEATH AND BEYOND
- DEFINITIONS
- Death
- Beyond
- SECULAR
- Existentialism
- Denies life any meaning
- Materialism
- End of consciousness and existence
- Humanism
- Necessary and unavoidable
- Cannot exist after death
- Naturalism
- No supernatural world or part of ourselves
- Cannot experience your own death
- Legacy Theory
- We can live on in the memories of others
- NDEs
- Genuine glimpse of the beyond
- Trick of the mind
- Existentialism
- ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEATH
- Takes away meaning of life + makes it all pointless
- Adds meaning-only get one life
- Acceptance-everyone has their time + natural part of human condition
- Should be prevented for as long as possible-death as a medical failure
- Taboo-euphemisms + avoidance
- Embracing death in society
- Tragedy + injustice-dying young
- Refusal to accept death as the final end-cryogenics
- DEFINITIONS
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