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The HBS hosts confront the inevitable.

It is most obviously true that we are all going to die. The very fact that anything is alive seems to entail that it is going to die. Death confronts us as an ultimate cancellation and nullification in the face of which one might ask, \u201cwhat does it matter if I am going to die?\u201d\xa0

The chorus in Sophocles\u2019 Oedipus at Colonus says that the best thing is never to have been born at all. This is especially true if one\u2019s life is filled with suffering and then death. Kant, not able to provide a reason why living is so great, simply says that it is the parents\u2019 job to reconcile their children to existence! On the other hand, we have the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, arguing that we will only be authentically what we are when we take on our own death as the possibility that is the condition of our existence. \xa0

Co-host Rick Lee is fairly confident that death is "stupid." As he notes, when a loved one dies, our thoughts do not go to authenticity but to the fact that it sucks and is painful that there is now a hole, a gap, in my world that cannot possibly be made good again. It\u2019s no wonder that people turn to the hope or wish that all will be made right again in the end. So, he asks: \u201cwhat is death?\u201d and what is the \u201cmeaning" of death?

Full episode notes available at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-87-death

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