Abstract
Modernity has generated a disenchanted attitude toward death but it has also produced conditions that force us to confront the meaning of death. Although troubled by the fear of death, we want to know whether the self ends with death and what comes after death. New sources of knowledge stemming from death and near-death research are changing our perceptions of dying and the survival of consciousness. Techniques of dying are being taught to mitigate our fear of death. We stand at a crossroad to seek out a new understanding of death and ipso facto of life itself.
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