Death And Death: The Complex Concepts Of Death

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In our world, life is regarded as everything, while death is the termination of it. Often referred as two polar opposites, the connection between the two is more than linked, as death cannot exist without life, defining the end of the cycle of life. While life is often cherished and beloved, death remains in the corners of obscurity, bringing terror and fear when mentioned. To make sense of death and mortality, humans have relied on a tried-and-true method: To give death a form they can recognize. Many civilizations around the world created personalizations of death, often portrayed as grim Reapers, shinigamis or gods of death, in order to spread terror over the termination of our beloved life, our everything. Although Death is successfully portrayed as a terrifying and merciless monster , in reality Death is a complex character with complex ideals about human mortality by taking many symbolic forms in the past as show in stories of the past, popular media of the present, and clear possibilities of death in the future.
In past stories, Death is personified as being terrorising and merciless towards humans, yet complex, as seen in various stories around the world. Personifications of death date way back to the
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Philosophers and scholars of the new era, such as Alan Watts, have dedicated their lives to find the so-desired “meaning of life” in which, while unsuccessfully find it, they successfully have created media to oppose the terror of death, bringing optimism and reality about mortality, claiming that all humans have to die, but there is nothing to worry about, As quoted by Alan Watts in his famous speech “Willing to die” he

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