Reconciliation with Death: A ramble on death phenomena in the East and West

Author: Li Shuchong
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: Since the dawn of humanity to the present day, eight hundred and fifty billion people have died on this planet, and they are all our ancestors. Among those buried in large-scale human deaths, were they happy in life? Were they willing to die? Did they die naturally and peacefully? More effectively avoiding unnatural deaths and building a happy life should be a common pursuit for all humanity. The Chinese call this enjoying one's allotted time, enjoying a peaceful death. Death is gentle and peaceful, with an incredibly broad embrace. The ability of humans to die is truly an unimaginable miracle—in the vast universe, where can death be found? If there were no death, where could life emerge? Death is beautiful and solemn.