Toward the end of his life, perhaps thinking of the significance of death for understanding individuality, perhaps re-considering the theme of self-awakening as a kind of death and re-birth, Nishida delved deeper into the relation between the individual finite human self and the absolute or God.
We certainly hold no infinite thought when we understand we cannot think the infinite; we do not grasp our death by understanding we cannot imagine being dead.
Patricia: Yes, my intention in interviewing such people was less about "proving" there was life after death, than understanding our state of consciousness at the very end of life.
Thus, factors other than age, play an important part in children's understanding of death and dying and understanding these issues is confronted in sociology, religion, communication, philosophy, child development, and health care.
Every now and then a horrific burst of imagination shook him: the cold darkness, the rising hunger, the first and final fear, of dying without ever understanding death.
I don't have any profound theory about why they're so popular, but I think humans in general created the vampire as a figure because it was a way of understanding death or a failure to understand death.
Death is a natural event, and understanding death is part of the study of nature.
Religious traditions often provide a framework for understanding death and dying as well as norms for end-of-life care.
On a practical note, death metal is not a good approach to understanding death.
"I started understanding death when I was little," she said.
