People die when they decide to toward an epistemology of death

Author(s): Carlos Eduardo Maldonado*

This paper claims that people die when they decide to, which means that death is an intricate matter of freedom. In other words, death is not a fate of any kind, or something that supervenes each individual. Instead, everyone decides when to die. Two major venues can be distinguished, thus: People decide when to die either because they feel relieved and have the sensation that they have accomplished what they could or planned, somehow; or else, they die because they must give up and need a gate of scape. Briefly said, death is not a choice, but a decision. The rationale for the claim lies in epigenetics. Epigenetics points out to the fact that nature and culture are one and the same thing. The election for death is, after all, it appears, a matter of freedom.

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