Can there be a philosophical resolution of the problem of death?

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Workshop # 26, Death, Series 12, (S7,35) This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY. An AI summary of the meeting will be in the relevant Youtube comments. You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion. https://youtu.be/Uf4CYj0t8-k I know it's stupid, but please click 'like', as it promotes circulation. Join this group at meetup.com/philosophy-of-value-workshops And buy my book The Pursuit of Value from Amazon.com Books The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email. THIS WEEK: Religion attempts to resolve the problem of death with eternal life. The stoic Lucretius tells us that it is literally nothing to be afraid of. These kinds of answers seem to be neither realistic nor adequate. Yet death is one of the parameters of life that we must confront. Must we resort to resignation, intellectual evasion or simple acceptance? Death is the loss of our future, and it also brings the loss of those we love. Can we find sufficient value in the present to resolve or ameliorate that loss? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 5, Scn. vi.