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To: Stan who wrote (135)	8/3/2005 9:49:41 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 26251

"In the beginning is my end." TS Elliot Death is something distinctively impending. Death is the end of man's life. Nobody doubts that humans die. But this does not imply any decision whether "after death" another Being is possible, either higher or lower, or whether man "lives on" or even "outlasts itself" and is "immortal". It is not as if norms and rules for comporting oneself towards Death are to be proposed for "edification". My view of Death is purely "this worldly" in so far as it interprets this phenomenon merely in the way it enters into any human as a possibility of its being. With death, a human stands before itself in solitude. This is a possibility in which the issue is nothing less than a human's being in the world. Its Death is the possibility of no longer being able to be there. If a human stands before itself as this possibility, it has been fully assigned to its own creative resources and potentiality for being. Its possibility is based on the fact that man is essentially disclosed to itself, and disclosed, indeed, as ahead of itself, as transcending. When I experience the possibility of my death, I am not being morbid. On the contrary, all the possibilities of life open up to my mind.