The first three sections of this book explore and distinguish the following three dimensions of death: Each dimension of death may be described in 7 corresponding features:
THE FACT OF DEATH
1. intellectual construct.
2. empirical fact.
3. observable occurrence.
4. finitude.
5. objective-external.
6. abstract-general.
7. unowned.
THE FEAR OF CEASING-TO-BE
1. emotional response.
2. arises from empirical fact.
3. personal apprehension.
4. awareness of my finitude.
5. subjective-deep.
6. specific-personal.
7. owned.
ONTOLOGICAL ANXIETY
1. inner state-of-being
2. arises from my internal 'nothing'.
3. existential disclosure.
4. constant internal threat.
5. arises from the core of my self.
6. more mine than my death.
7. lays claim to my self.
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The author regards this as his best book, but it is also the most difficult to understand. Persons unfamiliar with existential and phenomenological thinking are urged to start with one of the easier chapters of Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death.
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