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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: The Incompletability of Understanding Death Post image
Human Existence

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: The Incompletability of Understanding Death

We can understand death, witness it in others, and come close to it ourselves. But we cannot undergo our own death and then return to understand it. Death sets a boundary that neither knowledge nor experience can fully cross.

By Arlen Vare