Symbols of death




Refers to an invisible aspect of life, vseznanie because everybody sees the dead.

Death to the inhabitants of the earth is preceded by spiritual rebirth.

With the death is connected and the number of 13.

In the rites of initiation darkness there is death before a new person is born, will be the resurrection and reintegration.

Death is also a replacement of one mode of existence to another reunion of the body to the ground, and soul with the spirit.

Prince of Death is often portrayed as a skeleton with a sword, scythe, sickle, and a clock. Other symbols of death: snake, shroud, cloak, lion, Scorpio, ashes, drummer.


Death in Biology
The language of biologists, unfortunately, no poetic inspiration - elegiac sadness or expressive metaforizma. In biology death vulgarly interpreted as a "cessation of vital activity of organism, and as a consequence - the death of the individual as a living system of segregated, with the decomposition of proteins and other biopolymers, which are the basic material substrate of life..."

Death in Buddhism
To understand how death is treated in Buddhism), first stumbled on the relationship of body and soul.

Euthanasia
The problem of euthanasia - voluntary withdrawal from the life of terminally ill people - is widely discussed in the...

Aesthetic Death
On the remarkable aesthetic prochuvstvovanii death speak many ancient written sources, among them "A Conversation disappointed with his spirit" - the Egyptian papyrus, written about four thousand years ago. This startling confession tired and desperate man, trying to convince themselves poetic images in the goodness of death-comfort girls:

The ethics of death
For the stability of any public education requires a clear indication of moral criteria related to the phenomenon of human death. This, along with other nodal points of ethical paradigm helps to keep the company in a dynamic equilibrium of morality, not allowing the exit to the aggressive instincts, uncontrolled mass murders and suicides.

The Death of Philosophy
In ancient times, when knowledge is not yet split in specialized disciplines, the philosophy of non-resident served as a range of sciences, including psychology. In ancient philosophy relevant to the death is determined by several factors, including the nature, character death. For example, Plato in the dialogue "Timey" said that "the natural and painless death is accompanied by pleasure rather than suffering." The body dies, it is clear. This is not doubted, even the creator of the teachings of the ideas. And what happens to the soul?

Death from the standpoint of physics
Indeed, their existence to people arrogantly and defiantly violate the second law termOdinmiki. Under this law, all physical processes are ultimately directed toward entropy (termOdinmicheskogo equilibrium), though there was clearly an organic life of the entropy towards peace. Let's try to boil the kettle and turn off the gas burner.

The Death of Christianity
The first death of man on earth, as the Bible tells, was the death of his son Adam Abel, the murdered brother of Cain. But how on earth a death?

Death in Islam
Like other world religions, Islam asserts that physical death is not the result of human existence. The death of the soul and the body converts into other hypostasis.

Death in quantum mechanics
The core of quantum mechanics - the claim that small amounts of maternal and energy simultaneously possess the properties of particles and waves, and consequently behave as a particle (corpuscle), then as a wave. Transfer it into a household comparisons - it is just as if Odin and the same person was both sober and drunk in Odin and the same time. The paradox, however, that to observe both the state of matter (energy) science is not in a position (yes forgiven me this unwitting pun). Quality, in which the material is measured, depends... from the observer (more precisely, of the method of measurement). If we choose the way of Odin, it turns out that the quantum of emitted light behaves like a wave, while the other - we are a part.

Death in psychology
In the late XIX - early XX century, the belief in scientific knowledge of the world has reached apotheosis. Newest rationalism attempted to solve our phobias, motivation, emotions, etc. Do not just on the atoms. However, the initial euphoria gave way to gradual disappointment - it turned out, that death is not as hard as it said - it is much more complicated. In addition, a large number of schools and trends in psychology have made possible a unified treatment of the notion of death from the standpoint of the science.

The Death of theosophy
If we talk about the early period of theosophy, interpret its mystical way God is related to the death of the Bo"hme, Svedenborga, Paracelsus, and other Etingera theosophists entirely fit into the framework of their personal experience irrational, in which they are presented, however, is often used elements of a rational philosophy. Anyway, they all saw "otherworldly" phenomenon as obvious reality. Svedenborg even wrote an extensive work on the sky, the king of spirits, and hell, which outlined his thoughts on the exact matching (correspondence), linking this phenomena and the world. Philosophy is the doctrine called "dreams" (Kant), and the Church - "devildom, temptation small force".