nytimes series conversations on death

[greyhound]

Came across this the other day:

Conversations on Death

The philosopher George Yancy interviews religious scholars on death and faith.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Silvermorning]

i liked this part from the taoist scholar interview:

"We go from formlessness to form — this living human body — then again to formlessness. But all three phases constitute a single entity, ever transforming from one part to another, death to life to death. Our existence when alive is only one part of it, the middle bit; the nothingness or formlessness before and after our lives are part of the same indivisible whole.
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To be a human being for a while is like being metal that has been forged into a famous sword. To insist on only ever being a human in this great furnace of transformation is to be bad metal — good metal is the kind that can be malleable, broken apart and recombined with other things, shaped into anything. "