Posthumous marriage/ Necrogamy: Marrying a dead person Is it possible to marry a dead person? The answer, surprising as it may seem, is yes. In fact, there is a fairly high number of certified posthumous marriages. The difference between a…
When sadness subjugates us, the rest of the universe is excluded. Algernon Swinburne will not attempt to comfort us, let alone return us to our everyday cosmos. Sadness, one of Swinburne’s most brilliant poems, does not prophesy a better future,…
The real source of laughter. The human being is the only known creature that is aware of itself, that wonders about the universe, about its identity; who knows, beyond any doubt, that one day he will die. The human…
The existance of the second death. There is a second death, more silent and unnoticed, that occurs as suddenly as the first but without leaving relatives, or burials, or funerals, or pleasant conversations about the retrospective goodness of the deceased….
Reading a good book is not like dying. What I mean is that reading a good book enables us to prepare ourselves for the universal experience of dying. Kurt Vonnegut deduces that this universal experience of death must feel as…
Between us and death there is hardly an instant. For some, that moment lasts for a lifetime, for others, that of a sigh. The end is there and it is inexorable. Schopenhauer, and perhaps also Nietzsche, reasoned that man’s suffering…
