Dying At The Right Time
Morgan Rempel wonders whether there is a good time to die.
Again, “luck” here means something entirely different for me. It is no less embodied in dasein. After all, for some people, Mother Teresa’s life – however luck is factored into it – was not good at all:
cnn.com/2016/08/31/asia/mot … index.html
medium.com/@KittyWenham/mother- … b395177572
huffpost.com/entry/mother-t … M3V0wM9-Ij
And that’s before we get to the critiques from radical left wing and Marxist factions.
You can talk about how luck plays a role in lives like hers but sooner or later that life will be judged by others based on their own moral and political and religious views. The part where, from my frame of mind, luck gets tangled up in contingency, chance and change embodied in dasein.
That Mother Teresa had the “bad luck” to die when she did, is the least of what some want to focus on.
Again: Who would focus on “luck” here?! And how is that related to whether others would see his demise as either a “good death” or a “bad death”.
I must be missing the point here.
For me, a good or a bad death always revolves around the balance between the pleasure and pain. If the things you love in life, the things that bring you fulfilment and satisfaction amount to considerable more in your life than the parts that bring you suffering and pain, then losing all of that amounts to a bad death. Whereas if it is the other way around, and the pain and the suffering are taken away, it is a good death.
But, again, this always revolves in turn around whether you are able to believe in God and a route to Heaven or in No God but still en route to Nirvana.