Eine philosophisch-literarische Reflexion ueber Sterben und Tod
A philosophical and literary reflection on death and dying

Summary/Abstract: The concreteness of life presupposes not only death but equally the process of dying. Reflecting these Phenomena – dying and death – is necessary to make the phenomenon of life more compre-hensible. Both the individual and the social life need to be confronted with the factualness of cessa-tion. In this respect, every social form, which does not escape itself, cannot one-dimensionally cele-brate life without reflecting on death. A self-conscious life-entity must (1) be able to differentiate between living and dying and recognize its own death; (2) make itself known the deviations mecha-nisms of this process; (3) give thought to suicide and sense its limits; (4) reveal the obstructions that daily-life represents in order to reflect on this process. The reflection of dying and death may not represent something new, it is, however, an ever-vital moment of human life.

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