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Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation. He thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth. Fingarette goes on to discuss living a future without end and living a present without bounds. The author offers no facile consolation, but he identifies the true root of fear of death, and explains how the meaning of death can be reconceived.
Death
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780812693300
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Herbert Fingarette
- Publisher
- Open Court
- Published Date
- February 5, 1999
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 184
- Physical Info
- 0.44 in H x 8.8 in L x 6.06 in W (0.61 lb)