Tuesday, April 8, 2003

Death

As for death, I personally doubt if anyone could ever be ready to die. Philosophically speaking, death is that which manifests the possibility of the impossible. In other words, it is our ultimate and final possibility that, once realized, annihilates all other possibilities we should have possessed. Because of the infinity of possibilities, we can be said free. Yet equally because we will never realize that infinity (like when confronting death that brings to all our unfolded possibilities an abrupt stop), we will always already die too early and too soon. Everyone, by nature, by the human nature as freedom, cannot but die with uttermost regret. No salvation, no redemption, only hard and cold revelation. Death, who can deny, is the deadly serious issue every young person should postpone to later days. Who knows, maybe the so-called peaceful death belongs only to those who deny, or choose to become ignorant of, the signifying effect death has already imposed upon human existence.

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