CRITERIA OF DEATH MORAL PROBLEMS

Abstract

Life and death are two eternal themes of the spiritual culture of mankind. Prophets and founders of religions, philosophers and moralists, figures of art and literature, teachers and doctors reflected on them. There is hardly an adult who sooner or later would not think about the meaning of his existence, impending death and achieving immortality. Only early childhood or senile senility saves a person from the need to solve these problems. In most mythologies, death is personified as something evil, dangerous. Such are the ancient Egyptian Set, the Scandinavian mistress of the underworld Hel, the Greek Thanatos, after whom the science of death – thanatology is named.