num_pages: 184
description: Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead 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 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.
language: English
title: Death: Philosophical Soundings
titlecomplete: Death: Philosophical Soundings
genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Death
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Open Court