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    Public Lecture On: The Filipino Idea of Kamatayan in The Light of Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology of Death As A Condition of Authenticity

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    The document discusses the Filipino concept of kamatayan (death) and why people fear death. It notes that death is an unavoidable reality for all humans as mortal beings. While living people cannot experience their own death, they possess both life and potential death. The document distinguishes being potentially dead, which is anticipating one's ultimate end or kamatayan, from the present experience of dying, which involves pain and separation. It posits that one reason for the fear of death is our inability to directly experience our own death as our bodies are mortal.

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    The document discusses the Filipino concept of kamatayan (death) and why people fear death. It notes that death is an unavoidable reality for all humans as mortal beings. While living people cannot experience their own death, they possess both life and potential death. The document distinguishes being potentially dead, which is anticipating one's ultimate end or kamatayan, from the present experience of dying, which involves pain and separation. It posits that one reason for the fear of death is our inability to directly experience our own death as our bodies are mortal.

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    Public Lecture On: The Filipino Idea of Kamatayan in The Light of Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology of Death As A Condition of Authenticity

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    Public Lecture on: The Filipino Idea of Kamatayan in the light of Martin Heidegger’s

    Phenomenology of Death as a Condition of Authenticity

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    I. Why are we afraid of death? What is in death that turns us off?

    More often than not, people are trying to avoid the topic on death. Some avoid to have

    this in the midst of their stories or conversations, perhaps this topic does not feel ones happy

    unless it is about the death of their mortal enemy.

    Consider yourself here potentially dead while you are still alive, because it is true. We

    are all possessing the presence of both life and death. However, potentially dead is different

    from a dying person, definitely. Potentially dead is a situation of anticipating the future of

    your ultimate possibility, which your KAMATAYAN, whereas the dying moment is a present

    situation of pain and of separation.

    Why we are afraid to death?

    Well in fact we cannot experience our own death given the reality that human bodies

    are mortals and mortals are subject to death and of corruption. No one can escape this. Death

    is considered also as indispensable experience of man.

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