ABSTRACT
Human life implies vitality, the urge to accomplish or initiate. Life, as a thing in itself, is represented by a complex organic structure able to utilise energy, maintain itself and reproduce. Death is the final and irreversible end of life, or, more exactly, it is the condition body is in after life has ended. Thomas Nagel says that anticipation that death leads to nothingness is an unavoidably disconcerting feeling. Death may be viewed as an appropriate conclusion after a long, successful and well-lived life. Death can be seen as heroic in that it is caused because of some particularly courageous action. Modern Christianity teaches that resurrection is the message of Christ rather than a concept of inherent immortality. Many Eastern beliefs hold that ultimate liberation from the cycle of life takes a variety of forms, ranging from a whole, unending consciousness to nothingness.
