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This 10 page paper considers the question of whether or not death is evil, and what the answers tell us about what characteristics a thing (organism) must have in order for its death to seem evil to it. We will also explore what these answers mean in terms of issues such as the right to life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and see what the answers tell us about what characteristics a thing (organism) must have in order for its death to seem evil to it. We will also explore what
these answers mean in terms of issues such as the right to life. Discussion The first thing that comes to mind is that for an organism to perceive death as
evil, it must be able to have the ability to form some sort of conception of what death is. Science and religion both explain death in terms of the end
of life, but that seems too narrow, because there is no guarantee that death is the end of life. People of faith believe in an afterlife; even those who are
not strongly religious often feel that there is some sort of continuation of the human spirit even after the death of the body. So the fact that death is the
end of life seems inadequate to also label it as "evil." After all, there are times when death may be said to be a good thing; such as cases where
people are in agonizing pain with no hope of recovery. So we must look beyond the common understand of death in order to consider the question of its purported evil.
It also seems likely that for someone or something to consider death an evil, that entity must self-aware. Its unlikely (though we have no proof of this) that animals dont
have an understanding of death that would permit them to be troubled by it, or define it as evil. Until we learn to speak feline or monkey, however, there is
no way we will be able to say with certainty how animals think about death, or if they do indeed think at all, in the way we understand cognition. These
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