Sep 23 2008
‘Conceptualizing Death’
Over the weekend I had a chance to check out the Body Worlds exhibit touring through Edmonton, Alberta.
The ‘Body Worlds’ exhibit is basically an ‘artistic’ and ‘educational’ display in which donated cadavers are preserved and then displayed in various poses in the attempt to demonstrate the complexity of the human body. It definetily was an interesting exhibit that displayed bodies in very… curious ways. It’s quite educational actually to see how bodies function underneath, coming from a martial artist perspective it was a very useful visualization of attack targeting.
An overall theme of the displays was the attempt to make one realize the limits of their own body and as so their own mortality. When walking through the displays there were numerous billboards quoting ancient greek philosophers talking about death. Most views rotated around the concept that death was not to be feared as evil, as it is a neutral state as so the absence of anything.
I think it is useful to reflect on your own mortality and death. I have practiced visualization since I was very young, but for different reasons then most. I just wanted to throw the question out there; what do you think about reflection on death (useful/useless, necessary/unnecessary, proper application/misapplication)?
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I think it can be useful in a purely academic sense, but since we can’t do anything about death and since in my view death is inevitable and final. I’m not sure what else to say. I guess discussing it is useful in learning about the person you’re talking with.
Having been exposed to many different spiritual belief systems growing up, I’ve thought about death a lot over the course of my life. I don’t believe that it’s a bad thing, or a waste of time, since it’s happening everywhere and all the time. One wonders where their loved ones go when they can no longer be touched by the living. However, one can’t waste their life entirely on preparation for what may or may not be after death.
I feel that it is important to acknowledge your own mortality, without this you blind yourself through life and end up eventually causing yourself future anxiety when the big D comes knocking.