I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind-and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Death is not an end for the living but a transition viewed differently by beliefs.
- In plain terms
- Death is just a change, not an end.
- What can you take from it?
- View death as a transition not an end.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is death an end or a move?
- How does belief shape loss?
Another view
This view may comfort some but dismiss real pain.
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