Sentence examples for state of death from inspiring English sources

We all harbour conflicting urges, he argued, both passive and aggressive drives - Eros that is creative and life-producing; Thanatos that wills return to an inorganic or calm state of death.

Some religious conceptions of an afterlife make the state of death a terrifying prospect - but most views of death are not so cruel, the kindest being the most rational, which is that death is a state of non-being, equivalent to the state of not yet being born.

Each is a criterion for death, because it marks the univocal state of death, the irreversible loss of the function of the organism as a whole.

Finally, most neurologists do not consider the criterion BD and circulatory death as each diagnostic of the univocal state of death.

To fear a future state of death, Lucretius argues, is to make the conceptual blunder of supposing yourself present to regret and bewail your own non-existence.

We might object to the state of death, since coming to be dead makes it true of us that we have desires that will be unfulfilled.

But perhaps I have arrived at the state of death-consciousness that he identifies – we cannot truly savour life without a regular awareness of extinction.

We've collected this data from the US official casualty site (it also includes figures for each state of deaths in Iraq).

Moreover, the transitions from any of the three main states (Healthy, Obese, and Smokers) to the state of (Deaths due to other causes) are informed by the total mortality rate.

Around him there are more bodies in similar states of death or near-death, prostrate on a floor.

Note, there are still 19 states plus the District of Columbia that impose their own state versions of death taxes (estate and/or inheritance taxes).