Song Guiwu’s Viewpoint 57: How to Face Death Rationally


 宋圭武观点57:如何理性面对死亡

保持微笑和欢愉,是面对死亡的理性方式。

第一,死亡是不可避免的,因为这是大自然的必然法则。面对不可避免的事件,保持微笑和欢愉,是取得自身生命价值最大化的有效途径。因为你若痛苦,也是白痛苦,只是在给自己的人生多增加不产生任何收益的成本而已。而且你越痛苦,越惧怕死亡,死亡会越倾向靠近你。所以,惧怕和痛苦死亡是极为不明智不理性的。

第二,死亡本身也是一种美。庄子说,天地有大美不言。大自然的一切安排都是最好的。死亡是大自然对生命的恩赐。因为只有通过死亡,生命才可以认识和感知更多的世界,人生才可以了解更多的宇宙故事,就如旅途,多一种变化,必然多一种风景。夏花与秋叶,各有其美。若世界一直是夏花,则必然人类审美疲劳,按经济学原理,必然是人生的边际效用递减。生如夏花绚丽,死如秋叶静美。生与死,其实都是美。

第三,有了死亡,人类才会更加珍惜生命,生命才会更有价值。

第四,世界若没有死亡,世界必然是真正的死亡。因为死亡意味着变化,若没有死亡,必然没有变化,必然是真正的死亡。所以,生命本身就意味死亡,死亡也正是生命活出生命价值的方式之一。

第五,但死亡必须要符合自然原则,不能人为死亡。比如自杀或他杀,都是不好的,因为自杀或他杀都是对自然原则的违背,这种死亡方式会受到大自然的谴责和惩罚。

好,谢谢,谢谢。

Song Guiwu's Viewpoint 57: How to Face Death Rationally

 

Keep smiling and happy is a rational way to face death.First, death is unavoidable, because it is the inevitable law of nature.In the face of the inevitable event, keep smiling and happy is an effective way to maximize the value of their lives.Because if you suffer, it is also white pain, just to add more costs to their lives without generating any benefits.And the more pain you have, the more afraid of death, the more death will tend to approach you.Therefore, fear and pain of death is extremely unwise and irrational.Second, death itself is also a kind of beauty.Zhuang Zi said, heaven and earth have a great beauty without words.All the arrangements of nature are the best.Death is the gift of nature to life.Because only through death, life can know and perceive more of the world, life can understand more of the universe story, just like a journey, one more change, one more scenery is bound to be.Summer flowers and autumn leaves, each has its beauty.If the world is always summer flowers, then human beings will inevitably be aesthetic fatigue, according to the principles of economics, it is bound to be diminishing marginal utility of life.Life is like summer flowers, beautiful, death is like autumn leaves, quiet beauty.Life and death, in fact, are beautiful.Third, with death, human beings will cherish life more, life will be more valuable. Fourth, if there is no death in the world, the world must be really dead.Because death means change, if there is no death, there must be no change, and it must be really dead.Therefore, life itself means death, and death is also one of the ways for life to live out its value. Fifth, but death must conform to the principles of nature, and cannot be artificially induced.For example, suicide or homicide are not good, because suicide or homicide are violations of the principles of nature, and such a way of death will be condemned and punished by nature.OK, thank you, thank you.