Asking the Meaning of Life at the Threshold of Death

Is it possible to live on even after knowing that dying is the end? Is it possible to maintain the value of living even after knowing that neither life nor death has any special meaning?

No one knows what we will experience at the moment of death. Because we cannot convey death, or the moment of death, without experiencing it. We humans have no choice but to convey our thoughts and experiences through words and writing, but once we die, there is no way to convey them.

When I was in elementary school, I was 10 years old. I read a book published by Reader's Digest (sean.kr/s.php?k=OQqCaH) titled "People Who Overcame Death." As the title suggests, it is a story of people who overcame the moment of imminent death with wisdom, wit, and will. I have also experienced the moment of death five times in my life. However, if you take the experience of the moment of death literally, you will miss the essence. The moment of death is divided into two experiences: when the result of death is determined and cannot be avoided, and when the moment of death passes and you live again. When the moment of death is imminent, the moment when the result is determined to be death, you will experience real death. But if you don't reach death and return to life, it's just that you've experienced a very, very dangerous moment, but it's not really an experience of death. I have not experienced death, but have only experienced an incident that almost led to death. Rather, it should be said that I experienced a moment in life.

Of course, such experiences are also very precious. Continuing to live in such moments, or even after experiencing such moments, cannot be achieved with ordinary will. It's hard enough once, but I've had such experiences five times, and it was very difficult to continue living even after experiencing so many moments of death, such dangerous moments. Each time, my values ​​changed completely, and merging the revised values ​​with the existing values ​​was difficult to do with ordinary will.

But I'm still alive. And now that I see it, all those difficult moments, hard moments, hardships of life, moments of death, are all difficult and hard only from a human perspective, and I know very well that they have no special meaning when I look beyond them. What I'm curious about at this moment is whether it's still worth continuing to live.

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"People Who Overcame Death" First Edition - 1980 Book Cover

└Book cover published by Dong-A Publishing in Korea - First edition in 1985 (Purchase link: sean.kr/s.php?k=s3U02p)

└Reader's Digest published 1980 cover (Purchase link: sean.kr/s.php?k=kyxc4a)

└Reader's Digest published 1997 cover (Purchase link: sean.kr/s.php?k=kkm4ka)

A collection of "Drama in Real Life: Moments of Terror and Triumph that Changed People's Lives" serialized in Reader's Digest.