Professional Documents
Culture Documents
LESSON 13 Ultimate Fate - DEATH F
LESSON 13 Ultimate Fate - DEATH F
Lesson 13
Learning Competencies
Discuss philosophical views regarding death
and how it defines human existence
Discuss views on how a person should deal
with death
Explain how faith enables us to understand
death and the promise of salvation
Describe ways of dealing with loss and
provide examples
Evaluate own life and make a personal
commitment to make life more
meaningful
WHAT IS DEATH?
Death…
In medical terms,
death of human
being is associated
with “brain death”
or the ceasing of all
brain functions.
?
Death…
OTHER BELIEFS
RELATED TO DEATH
REINCARNATION
person’s spirit
begins a new life in
another body
ETERNAL OBLIVION
persons
consciousness is
completely erased
upon death
Death as influence by Culture
https://youtu.be/gR8zPWCGHEs
It is often seen in the tradition and
cultures done in bereavement, burial,
and remembrance of the dead.
All Souls Day, the Chinese Ghost
Festival, and the Mexican Day of the
Dead, are celebrated to commemorate
dead.
In Philippines…
DUALIST
man’s awareness
of the inevitability
of death
Philosophers have advocated
ACCEPTANCE as the means to
address feelings of dread or anxiety
regarding death.
Whether there is afterlife or eternal
oblivion, the possibility of death
should not be feared – since it means
that the person is finally free from
misery.
Martin Heidegger
man is being
oriented towards
death
the fulfillment of
existence, and the
acceptance of one’s
mortality can bring
a sense of freedom
of a person
Ludwig Wittgenstein
could also be
brought by the other
forms of loss such as
home, belonging or
employment and other
traumatic experience
BEREAVEMENT