The Phenomenon of Death

What is Death?

• Death is separation of the soul from

the physical body. Death becomes
the starting point of a new and better
life. Death does not end your
personality and self-consciousness. It
merely opens the door to a higher
form of life. Death is only the
gateway to a fuller life.
 Greatest Fear of Death

• SEPARATION - fear with which death

shadows us, a fear which comes alive
in us every time we see a dear one
depart from us and always connotes
suffering, pain, misfortune and
sorrow.
“I shall pass my heaven in
doing good on earth, will not
look on death as a hopeless
rupture, and it will cease to be
the greatest of all suffering.”
 Acceptance of Death
• According to Heidegger, “...no one
becomes truly adult unless he assumes
and accepts his birth and his death; for
to be truly a human being one must
accept the human condition...”
• Death is to be considered as part of life,
something which every person has to
come to terms with, in order to live well,
part of what is involved in accepting our
finitude.
 Death, The Test of Love

• According to the Proverb,

“Love is stronger than Death and Death
is the test of Love”
Death, this time, far from being
experienced as a final absence. If the
love is spiritualized, if it reaches the
plane of friendship is subordinated
entirely to the intangible fact of being
with, of fusing our existence in
common destiny.
• When love intervenes,Death is just a
view of another chapter in which the
departed person still exist not
physically but emotionally and
spiritually.
 Death, The Condition of
Liberty
• LIBERTY - is a word that has
developed out of the need for people
to communicate. It is an idea that is in
essence interpersonal, social.
• “Liberty is not a feature of isolation,
not of exclusion but rather of
connection."
• Liberty is not a matter of being free
from people, nor is it a matter of
being free to do whatever you wish
regardless of the effect that it might
have on other people. Liberty is only
meaningful when we are free with
people.
• According to Man’s choice, he will
either imprison himself in the
isolation of egoism or pride, he will
live without others, or he will live
without others, or he will open
himself to communion with God and
with men to meet in the faith and in
love.
Death is like sleep. Birth is
like waking up.
He who is born begins to die.
He who dies begins to live.