What an excellent article by G-Detroit. It got me thinking about other aspects of death. Heidegger says that death is ones greatest possibility. That when one thinks about death, and their relation to death, they are hitting on something very essential to the human being.
There is a western metaphysical debate about the separation of mind and body. Christians (and most religious people), believe that we have a soul that is separated from our body. that the soul exists outside this earthly realm, and that the soul continues on after death. The body then, becomes some useless vehicle that the soul clings onto for a short period of time during our earthly existence. I really don't see why christians make a big deal about burials and cemetaries, when the body doesn't have a very big importance to their theology.
Maybe a revolutionizing of the way we conceive of the body is in order.
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