Christopher Hitchens, a great friend and member of the secular community, prepared a book to be released after his death. Mortality will tell about his struggles with cancer and how he dealt with it.
I’ve just ordered my copy, and I’ll blog about it in the future. For now, I’d like to focus on how secular people have dealt with death.
From your perspective, it will be as if you’re always alive. You weren’t cognizant before your birth, and you won’t be cognizant after your death, you will only have awareness while you’re alive. That’s one way to deal with it, and one that a few find comforting.
I’ve managed to locate a brief article on the Greek philosopher Epicurus and his view of death. Epicurus’ basic idea was that death was the end of all sensation, of all fear, and that therefore it was not something to be feared.
How do you respond to death?
