THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
PHENOMENOLOGY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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You fall into tasks, things everyone expects you to do.
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You follow what people ask you to do.
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You think about your life from a wholistic perspective, in terms of themes and chapters, who you really are at your core or essence.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thinking about death motivates us. Would you feel desired to experience, accomplish, and connect? Knowing that there really is always tomorrow, we might not feel the same desire to “do it while [we’re] young” or work toward a health or career goal. Knowing our time here is finite motivates us to truly live our lives.
Detailed explanation-2: -Obsessive thoughts of death can come from anxiety as well as depression. They might include worrying that you or someone you love will die. These intrusive thoughts can start out as harmless passing thoughts, but we become fixated on them because they scare us.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Death is what gives life meaning, to know your days are numbered, your time is short.” This is a quote from a comic book movie (Doctor Strange, in case you’re curious), but that makes it neither less true nor less beautiful.
Detailed explanation-4: -For Heidegger death is a phenomenon of life that reveals the way in which a human being exists and what it means to be. He interprets death as a meaningful possibility by showing that death is an existential awareness of possible not-being. All quotations are from Martin Heidegger.