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1. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogThe Impact of Death on Our Everyday Lives | Psychology Today

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   Oct 21, 2016 · Defensive reactions to personal trauma, separation issues, and especially death anxiety impact our lives at three distinct levels: On an individual level, our reactions predispose withdrawal into ...

2. news.harvard.edu › gazette › storyHow death shapes life, according to a Harvard philosopher

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   Nov 1, 2021 · Death is standing. It’s standing in the way liquid stands still in a container. Sometimes cooking instructions tell you to boil a mixture and then let it stand, while you complete another part of the recipe. That’s the way death is in the poem: standing, waiting for you to get farther along with whatever you are doing.

3. openoregon.pressbooks.pub › socproblems › chapter10.2 Death and Dying as a Social Problem – Social Problems

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   10.2.1.3 Social Death. Social death involves the loss of social identity, loss of social connectedness, and loss associated with the disintegration of the body (Kralova 2015). This can be marked by a specific event, such as biological death. But it can also involve a series of changes such as the loss of the ability to take part in daily ...

4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › deathDeath - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   May 22, 2002 · The main problem is that death can interfere with desire fulfillment not just by falsifying the objects of our desires but also by precluding our having desires (Luper 2013). So even if we resolve, from now on, to limit ourselves to desires whose objects cannot be falsified by death, we are still vulnerable to the harm death will do us if it precludes our having and fulfilling desires.

5. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC7384555Reflections on Death in Philosophical/Existential Context

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   The Problem of Meaning in Human Death. Biologically and medically the meaning and reality of human death, as that of all animals, is clear: the cessation of all the functions and faculties of the organs of the body, especially the heart and the brain. This entails, of course, the cessation of consciousness.

6. plato.stanford.edu › entries › death-definitionThe Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Oct 26, 2007 · A Progressive Alternative: The Higher-Brain Approach. According to the higher-brain standard, human death is the irreversible cessation of the capacity for consciousness. “Consciousness” here is meant broadly, to include any subjective experience, so that both wakeful and dreaming states count as instances.

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   Is death a bad thing?

   • “Both in politics and in everyday life, one of the worst things we could do is get used to death, treat it as unremarkable or as anything other than a loss,” says Susanna Siegel, Harvard’s Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy. These philosophical insights are vivid in Rainer Marie Rilke’s short and stunning poem “Der Tod” (“Death”).

   How death shapes life, according to a Harvard philosopher

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   What is the meaning of human death?

   • Biologically and medically the meaning and reality of human death, as that of all animals, is clear: the cessation of all the functions and faculties of the organs of the body, especially the heart and the brain. This entails, of course, the cessation of consciousness.

   Reflections on Death in Philosophical/Existential Context

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   How does the definition of death affect our daily lives?

   • The definition of death affects many aspects of our daily lives. The death of an individual often triggers government laws that regulate issues directly related to how the body of the deceased is handled and the options for the final disposal of the corpse.

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   Does death harm a person?

   • We may deny that, after a person has died, she is no longer real at all—not “there” to be harmed—because she still exists in other worlds, according to Yourgrau. Some (Nagel 1970; Silverstein 1980) suggest that death harms us but at no determinate time.

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   Is a person's death a good or bad experience?

   • A person’s death is not an experience. And if a person’s death is not an experience at all, clearly it is not an experience that is intrinsically good or bad for her. So, from 1–3, it follows that a person’s death is not intrinsically good or bad for her.

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   Does dying at a time make our lives worse?

   • Applying comparativism, we may claim that, in at least some cases, dying at a time makes our lives as wholes worse than they would have been had we not died when we did, roughly because, by cutting our lives short, it deprives us of good life.

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8. link.springer.com › article › 10Reflections on Death in Philosophical/Existential Context

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   Jul 27, 2020 · Phaedo attracts the attention of modern and contemporary philosophers from Kant (1724–1804) and Hegel (1770–1831) onwards, because it poses the existential problems of life, death, the soul, consciousness, movement and causality as well as morality, which have preoccupied philosophy and the human sciences diachronically. In this dialogue a central issue is the philosophy of ethics and ...