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And: "Religion tends to authoritarianism as capitalism to monopoly. "So Julian Barnes in his autobiographical reflections on death, " nothing to fear would have what is called ". I come back to it.

Bhante Dhammika in his

Blog . in the article "The 5 Regrets of Dying" summarizes findings from his hospice work What regretted dying the most, was

- not a life faithfully carried out their own ideas, but directed to another to have

- working too hard (and to have neglected family),
- not to have expressed her feelings enough

- neglected friendships to have

- to have allowed themselves to be little real satisfaction.

The big surprise - and a self-deception - I did not recognize in these statements, but in Bhante Dhammikas introduction, where he stresses that have really any patient ("every one of them) are finally reconciled with death. This is contrary not only to my observations, but also those of many doctors. Julian Barnes quotes one of them in his book. Perhaps this blindness of Bhante of hospice care due or to emphasize their value. I am - in contrast to many socially engaged Buddhists - hospices quite critical of, as it has in danger of illusions and "cheap" to provide comfort. What Buddhists tell because there the dying? What they do with them?




the book from Barnes least illuminating various aspects of death and our anxiety before it cited last words and humorous philosophizing about the inevitable. The ego is only a construct of thought, free will is an illusion, it reflects the state of brain research. Without forgetting the reference to Aristotle, it provides a Zen-like, but quite rational knowledge: "The idea of a cerebral U-boat captain, all the events organized in the life of the people sovereign, must yield to the idea that we are nothing but a sequence of brain events . Are held together by certain causal connections (...) The 'I' that we love is really just a grammatical category