{"id":307,"date":"2012-09-11T19:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=307"},"modified":"2012-09-11T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:13:06","slug":"dealing-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2012\/09\/11\/dealing-with-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens, a great friend and member of the secular community, prepared a book to be released after his death. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/145552347X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=145552347X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20\"><em>Mortality<\/em><\/a> will tell about his struggles with cancer and how he dealt with it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just ordered my copy, and I&#8217;ll blog about it in the future. For now, I&#8217;d like to focus on how secular people have dealt with death.<\/p>\n<p>From your perspective, it will be as if you&#8217;re always alive. You weren&#8217;t cognizant before your birth, and you won&#8217;t be cognizant after your death, you will only have awareness while you&#8217;re alive. That&#8217;s one way to deal with it, and one that a few find comforting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to locate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infidels.org\/kiosk\/article683.html\">a brief article on the Greek philosopher Epicurus<\/a> and his view of death. Epicurus&#8217; basic idea was that death was the end of all sensation, of all fear, and that therefore it was not something to be feared.<\/p>\n<p>How do you respond to death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens, a great friend and member of the secular community, prepared a book to be released after his death.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}