"Monastic Tibetan Buddhists showed significantly greater fear of death than any other group." Who would have guessed that? http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12590/full …pic.twitter.com/P95blv8fji
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There is this famous saying that being ostracized is like death, it is "social death". But it goes further: Real death IS social death, it is like being ostracized by the living.
A younger Woody Allen masterfully depicted the "death as having to leave the party" metaphor. A guy sitting in a train that might as well go to Auschwitz, peering at another train passing with people having an ecstatic party. Look at 1.00 minutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-jGXkMkR8 …
there is a Christopher Hitchens quote along these lines
I know. But I had indpendantly and actually some decades before him the identical vision (being forced to leave a so sweet party) during a near-death experience. Even wrote about, in German.
for many, the party isn't much fun
If you feel it ending, it suddenly appears incredibly sweet. I know what I am talking about.
I think it's about having to stop playing a game they haven't even properly figured out the control for yet.
Umberto Eco wrote a very similar argument.
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