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Document Details : Title: Death is Not Natural Author(s): MAERTENS, Guido Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: April 1995 Pages: 28-37 DOI: 10.2143/EP.2.1.563069 Abstract : For the majority of people, death is a threat and the very idea of being dead a vexation. Dying is usually associated with pain which never goes away, pain which is the source of one's anxiety. Bringing a child into this world can also be a painfull process, and sometimes requires surgical procedures, but after a time the pain that leads to death, however is a definitive pain, a final experience which can no longer bear fruit. Death is haunted by the ghost of annihilation, of no longer existing, of an enduring frustration that human history will continue, perhaps even quite satisfactorily without us. |
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