Death has been part of the impending of soul and body.

1. DEATH
CONTENT:
HUMAN PERSONS AS ORIENTED TOWARDS
THEIR IMPENDING DEATH

2. LEARNING
COMPETENCIES
8.1 Recognize the meaning of his/her own life.
8.2. Enumerate the objectives he/she really wants to
achieve and to define the projects he/she really wants
to do in his/her life.
8.3. Explain the meaning of life
8.4. Reflect on the meaning of his/her own life.

3. ONE YEAR TO LIVE
If I had but one year to live; One year to help;
one year to give; One year to love; one year to
bless; One year of better things to stress; One
year to sing; one year to smile; To brighten
earth a little while;

4. I think that I would spend each day,
In just the very self-same way that I do
now. For from afar, the call may come to
cross the bar ends at any time And I must
be prepared to meet eternity.

5. So if I have a year to live, Or just a day in
Which to give A pleasant smile, A helping hand,
A mind that tries to understand A fellow-creature
when in need,‘ Tis one with me, --I take no heed;
But try to live each Day. He sends to serve my
gracious Master’s ends.

6. How do we face death?
How do we deal with life in
the face of death?

7. The following is from a comment
in a New Zealand newspaper by the
director of radiography – in charge
of making X-rays that show whether
someone has a cancer or not.

8. “ Cancer makes people start thinking
about the quality of their lives.
Everything they do now has a keener
edge on it, and they get more out of life.
In fact, some people never become
completely human beings and really start
living until they get cancer.”

9. How would
you like to die?

10.  In olden times the court jester was an important
member of the king’s household. By means of
quips and witty remarks, he kept the king in good
humour and entertained the household.
His king was a sour-tempered man who possessed
the ancient right over life and death. According, to
law, it was also legally impossible to change any
sentence he had set on a subject.

11. Well, one day the King was upset by the court
jester and in a sudden fit of rage, he sentenced the
jester to death. Then, realizing too late what he
had done, he said to the court jester, “In
consideration of your loyal services to me, I will
permit you to select the manner in which you
prefer to die.” The court jester immediately
answered, “I select to die of old age.”

12.  How would you like
to be remembered?

13. One morning in 1888, Alfred Nobel, the
inventor of dynamite, who had amassed a
fortune manufacturing and selling weapons
of destruction, awoke to read his own
obituary in the newspaper! Actually, it was
his brother who had died, but a reporter
mistakenly wrote Alfred’s obituary.

14. For the first time Alfred Nobel saw himself
as the world saw him: “The Dynamite King!”
and nothing more. Nothing was mentioned
about his efforts at breaking down barriers
between people and ideas. He was simply a
merchant of death, and he would be
remembered for that alone.

15. Alfred Nobel was horrified. He determined
that the world would know the true purpose
of his life. So, he wrote his last will and
testament and left his fortune to establish
that most valued of all prizes: the Nobel
Peace Prize. Now, the world has forgotten
his dynamite legacy.

16. CONTENT STANDARD: The learner
understands human beings as oriented towards
their impending death…
DEEPENING:
“VARIOUS VIEWS ON DEATH”

17. BUDDHISM
Life is practice for death – cultivating positive,
happy virtuous states of mind and abandoning
non-virtuous, harmful, suffering states of mind.
Death is definite but the time of death is
indefinite so a Buddhist aspires to be ready for
death.

18. SINCE THEY
BELIEVE IN THE
TRANSMIGRATIO
N OF SOUL
,DEATH,
THEREFORE, IS
 An opportunity for great achievement during
the death process.
 Most important to die with a calm, peaceful
mind; with strong spiritual / positive thoughts
prevailing.
 The separation of body (physical form) and
the “mind” formless, clear, luminous and
knowing.

19. ATTITUDE ON DEATH
Support acceptance and contentment, feeling happy to
leave the life one has known, to “let go” everything,
even unfinished business, plans and dreams and giving
up all attachments.

20. • Death hangs over all of us. Our awareness of it
can bring freedom or anguish.
• “Nothingness is our inherent lack of self. We
are in constant pursuit of a self. Nothingness
is the creative well-spring from which all
human possibilities can be realized.” –Jean-
Paul Sartre
Existentialism: Nothingness and
Death

21. MAN RAY
Les Larmes (Tears)
Dread and Anxiety

22. Dread and Anxiety
• Anxiety stems from our
understanding and recognition of
the total freedom of choice that
confronts us every moment, and the
individual’s confrontation with
nothingness.
• Death therefore is the oblivion of
being.

23. 23
Epicureanism is a hedonistic theory wherein good is
identified with pleasure and evil with pain
• Epicurus believed that the good life consisted in simple but
deep pleasures and the absence of pain, in an attitude of
calm emotional tranquility
• Only good and bad sensations should concern us
• Since death is not a sensation, we should not fear death
• There is nothing terrible in not living
• Man does not fear death, because death is not painful when
it comes
• Rather, man fears death because there is pain in the
anticipation of death
HEDONISM

24. 24
• The wise man neither seeks to escape
life nor fears the cessation of life
• Life doesn’t offend him nor does the
absence of life seem any evil
• He doesn’t seek the larger share, but
rather the most pleasant
• He doesn’t seek to enjoy the longest
period of time (life), but the most
pleasant

25. . MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S
PHENOMENOLOGY OF DEATH
Death is INESCAPABLE
 People normally and generally Fear Death
 We have cultivated the habit of thinking
that death concerns (only) Others

26. DEATH usually connotes
Suffering, pain, misfortune, sorrow a rapture, a
leaving behind of the beloved, a leaving behind
of one’s body
These are the reasons why it would always be
PAINFUL

27. D A S E I N
By being in the world by being involved in it is a
bundle of possibilities has the power “to be”.
“ Being-in-the-world” Manifests the reality that
human beings have the possibility of death

28. One cannot fully live unless one confronts one's own
mortality A human being cannot achieve a complete or
meaningful life, or any kind of authentic existence,
unless he or she comes to terms with temporality a
uniquely human awareness that a human being is a
finite, historical, and temporal being. The awareness of
death is a central beginning for understanding this
temporality.

29. As soon as man comes to life, he is at once
old enough to die.
The awareness and acceptance of death is a
requirement for authentic existence.
DEATH is not a shared experience at all.
 it is one's own and a non-relational experience
something one can only do by oneself, as each person
dies his or her own death.

30. INAUTHENTIC HUMAN PERSON
hides death by saying, “People die but
right now it has nothing to do with us.”
believes that death is “not-yet-present-
at-hand,” therefore, is no threat.

31. INAUTHENTIC HUMAN PERSON
loses himself in the ‘they’ because the ‘they’
tranquilizes death by calming the anxiety of
man.
The ‘they’ doesn’t want us to be anxious
about death, instead the anxiety in the face of
death is taken as a sign of weakness.

32. What is the Authentic response of an
individual in his/her awareness of Being-
towards-Death?
Anticipation
Preparation

33. he discovers himself “there” absorbed in
things and people constantly realizing
his/her own possibilities for being .
This is what Heidegger calls,
Care = fundamental structure of Dasein.

34. Reveals to man that death means
the measureless impossibility of
existence
Man’s anticipation of death does
not evade death; rather accepts this
possibility.

35. THE BELIEF
IN THE
AFTERLIFE

36. CHRISTIAN
 Christians believe in resurrection
This is the idea that when the body dies the soul
waits until God ends the world. At this point both
the dead and the living will face God and are
judged on their faith and actions while living.
 Christians believe in the immortality of the soul.
This is the idea that when people die, their souls
live on in a spiritual realm after being judged by
God on their good and bad deeds. The good will
go to heaven, the bad to hell.

37. ISLAM
Muslims believe:
 When a person dies the soul is taken to a waiting area
before it is judged on the Day of Judgement. This is
called resurrection
 The Qur’an says that on the Day of Judgement (which is
at some point in the future that only God knows) a book
is opened which has recorded the good and bad deeds of
everyone
 Everyone will be judged by Allah based on their actions
 Allah will send those who are good to heaven and those
who are bad to hell forever

38. Non-religious reasons
for believing in life
after death
Many people claim to
have seen ghosts
The idea that
once someone
dies, that can just
be it, nothing else
The use of Ouija boards
The use and claims of mediums
People claim to have
had deja vu
Near death experiences
The fact that some
people remember
‘past lives’ which
may be a sign of
reincarnation

39. Near death
experiences are
just
hallucinations as
the brain is
starved from
oxygen
There is no scientific
proof of a soul so there
is nothing to go on
anywhere else once the
body dies
The idea of life
after death is
contradictory. A
person is either
dead or alive.
Scientists would
say that nothing
can survive
death.
If there is an afterlife, where
is it? It can’t exist as there is
no where for it to be.
However, some
people don’t believe
there can be an
afterlife because: