WHAT'S THE POINT?
Books have been written, documentaries have been made, many self help experts, psychologists and philosophers have posited not once, not a thousand times but nearly a million times to death being something that we shouldn't be afraid of. Herbert Fingarette is one of those philosophers who spent decades studying and teaching philosophy of life and even wrote a book about death among other books. He taught philosophy for forty years at the University of California and was convinced that death is not something that one should be afraid of or even worry about. For what is death when you no longer feel,see or understand? It is basically what you and I through many sources have gotten to believe. However, there is more to death than the basic understanding of mortality and leaving this world to a painless next life(who knows?). There is more to staring at death and understanding the psychology of dying. I read a story about a young man where the he tells how some experiences...