View of life and death

China's traditional culture is the long-term historical precipitation of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and people's views on death are also influenced by these thoughts. They always take a negative attitude of denying and deceiving death, and can't even mention death in their words. It is a symbol of misfortune and fear. Western culture is mainly influenced by Christianity. Christians believe in "heaven" and eternal life after Jesus' death. They believe that death is conversion to the Father. Their view of death is far more positive than the traditional view of China people. People in China are so secretive about death that they can't accept it in their daily life and are "kind" to death. In the face of death, they show more fear than accept it realistically.

Therefore, we compare the death views of the elderly with different religious beliefs and see how religious beliefs affect the death views of the elderly. Here, we have consulted all kinds of information about this and summarized the related concepts and problems as follows: Defining a thing, logically, usually means adding a concept to the nature of this thing. Death is not directly felt by anyone. People can't experience death when they are alive; When people are dead, they can't experience it, let alone say it. Because people can't perceive the state of death and can't describe it in precise language, it is difficult for people's understanding of death to rise to the level of scientific cognition based on objective observation and can be repeatedly displayed in the laboratory. In this way, the true nature of "death" is always a mystery to people. The exact nature of "death" cannot be grasped, because people can't give a scientific definition of "death".

It is precisely because death cannot be defined and it is difficult to rise to an accurate science that it has become an eternal topic in religious and philosophical discussions. In fact, religion analyzes death with emotion and belief, and proves the pain of life with the necessity of "death", thus prompting people to construct a transcendental concept and yearning, and strive to get rid of the shackles of the secular and gain some immortality and divinity.

No matter whether death is personified (the god of death) or expressed by feminine nouns (death) or masculine nouns (death, death), death is a real, concrete and different form of data, which is very popular in many fields. Isn't death actually the capital "nothing" or almost "nothing" that can't be defined by any scientific means, no matter from the standard or definition? If death must be defined, there are many descriptions of death in many fields.

Humans first recognized death from a physiological point of view. In ancient times, people thought that a person could not move or was dead; Later, people found that death is when there is no breathing; Humans have evolved and realized that death is when the heart stops beating; Modern medicine regards brain death as a sign of human death. The medical definition under the influence of Christianity emphasizes the duality of spirit and flesh and the difference between man and beast. Therefore, in Dr. Born's view, human death lies in the separation of soul and body, and the death of animals means the termination of basic biological functions. The encyclopedia of the Soviet Union conforms to the spirit of Marxism: "Death and the cessation of organ life activities occur at the same time, so it also occurs as an independent life system and personal destruction; In a more general sense, death is the final stop of living matter, accompanied by the decomposition of protein. Only on the basis of materialistic explanation of the nature of organism life can we understand death. " Confucius, the founder of ancient Confucianism in China, warned his disciples how to treat death: "If you don't know life, how can you know death?" . Epicurus, the great philosopher of ancient Greece, also famously expounded death: "When we exist, death does not exist; If death exists, we don't exist. "The great German philosopher Heidegger once said that life and death are not the two endpoints of life, but intertwined and inseparable. Death is the eternal fate of human beings, so the significance of human existence lies in throwing one's own life to death and then bouncing back to get the stipulation. Therefore, in secular life, people must not just bury themselves in "living" and "live" in chaos, but should always "think" quietly, especially face up to "death" and think about it all the time. This is the significance and value of paying attention to death in human life. China people's views on death.

1. The original view of death

In the early stage of human development, due to the extremely low social productivity and human thinking ability, human beings can't think about death philosophically, and even can't look at death from the perspective of human beings and nature, which makes human primitive view of death generally take the form of unnatural religious myths, that is to say, the problem of death is always closely intertwined with primitive religious myths. The most fundamental feature of the primitive view of death, which is closely intertwined with primitive religious myths, is the resistance and denial of death.

(1) One of the basic contents of the original view of death is to deny the universal inevitability and inevitability of death;

⑵ Another important content of the original view of death is the denial of the ultimate nature of death;

(3) Another important content of the original view of death is to believe in the immortality of the superego soul.

The meaning and intention of the concept of "death" in the minds of China people today.

(1) Take death as the natural destination. Birth, old age, illness and death are natural phenomena, and there is death when there is life, which is an irresistible natural law.

(2) Death is a frightening event;

(3) Death is an ideal pursuit. There are two situations: one is to regard death as a means to pursue ideals, and the other is to beautify death intentionally or unintentionally;

Death is a deterrent. The preciousness of life is its uniqueness and irreversibility. There is only one life, and death means the end of life and a complete break with secular existence.

5. Death is a painful relief. Death is only a stage and link in life, even a minor stage.