There are many different points of view on the topic of death. One such view comes from a man named Nagel. Nagels point of view on death, is death is bad or negative you might say, and its ok to fear and not wish for your existence to end. The reason Nagel believes that death can be a negative experience, is because he believes, and follows a theory called the deprivation theory. This theory states that it is ok to believe death is bad or negative because a person finds living to be a good thing, the experiences, or anything that you love to do, even something that you may not like to do all that much, but constitute learning experiences in life is what makes life enjoyable. By being dead you will no longer be able to experience any thing life has to offer and therefore the end of ones life has to be a negative thing. For example if one person loves to go to philosophy class more than anything in the whole world, when that person realizes that when he or she dies that they......
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