{"id":60846,"date":"2024-10-31T22:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=60846"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T21:36:55","slug":"life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"From a certain perspective, dying is the best way to deal with life. Our life is only perfect when we also acquaint ourselves with death; it\u2019s really best to make friends with death. Imagine for a moment that a human life was endless. Never dying\u2014that would be the worst thing that could happen to us. Real life would then no longer be possible. It would just be a kind of vegetation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a life comes to a natural end, death is often a salvation. When someone becomes weak and frail, when the burden of years and cares can no longer be borne, death comes as a savior. It then allows for a different kind of life to be possible. \u201cLife is nature\u2019s most beautiful invention and death is her artifice to have more life.\u201dFrom \u201cFragment \u00fcber die Natur\u201d [Fragment on Nature], T<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a certain perspective, dying is the best way to deal with life. Our life is only perfect when we also acquaint ourselves with death; it\u2019s really best to make friends with death. Imagine for a moment that a human life was endless. Never dying\u2014that would be the worst thing that could happen to us. Real life would then no longer be possible. It would just be a kind of vegetation. When a life comes to a natural end, death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19605,"featured_media":60967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8793],"tags":[11572,8814],"class_list":["post-60846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-philosophy","tag-english-issue-44-2024","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}