Personal Perspectives on Death: Rebellion to Acceptance
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Personal Perspectives on Death
It's how we face death, what attitude we take. The personal attitudes towards death may be:
Rebellion Against Death
A tragic revolt against death, because in the end, we all die. In this position, Albert Camus said that to be rebelling against death is a form of loyalty to life. He rebels against death because it is the great injustice, saying that man should never be complicit in death, that it is the greater sin. Man has a more dignified and more human way to rebel against death, delaying its arrival.
Ironic Indifference to Death
"I'm indifferent to death." Heroism does not make sense because if I do not care about death, nor do I care about life. Kafka is the referent of this position. Kafka experienced the fascination of death, and all his work is a kind of indifferent rite performed obsessively to escape death.
The Will to Die
Death is not always presented as something negative. In special circumstances, man seeks death, seeing it as a deliverance (suicide). In philosophy, we speak of three types of suicide:
Ethical Suicide
Done for honor. Man does it because he does not want to live degraded. "I would rather die standing than live on your knees." Philosophy analyzes whether it is worth living life.
Aesthetic Suicide
Death is wanted as a supreme act of beauty. Assumed to be the supreme act of self-assertion. It transforms the act of dying into a great show.
Metaphysical Suicide
Voluntary death is presented as an act to secure one's own freedom. Suicide does not just try to prove that God does not exist but that He has been supplanted by the free will of the person who commits suicide. One commits suicide because one is free.
Embracing Death Through Magic
Faced with the horror of death and the body's corruption, man reacts through rites and incantations. Death is not seen as the end but as a journey to another dwelling.
Acceptance of Death
Respect causes death; death is assumed as an intrinsic reality of life. Death gives the desire for immortality. Death is accepted because it is certain that there is something after all. To take life seriously, we have to know how to accept our own death and that of others.