Goodbyes

Seeing that this one is my last post for the semester, I would first off like to say that you to my classmates that participated in class and on the blogs to provide interesting conversation. I really enjoyed discussing these philosophical questions with you. Also, I would like to thank David Johnson for being an amazing professor and finding interesting material for us to read and talk about. Although you tended to go on monologuing at points (Kidding, sorta :p), You really brought new ideas that I never considered and I loved thinking about. I can't wait to have philosophy of music with you next semester.
Now, onto the actual part of the post that talks about human nature. Since this is the goodbye, I thought I would talk about death, since they both have to do with parting. I have been thinking for a while and was wondering which people fear more, death, or dying. My mom always says that she doesn't fear death, but she fears dying. Death is the fear of the actual oblivion, while fear of dying is the fear of the process that results in death. but then I thought about things that the reason one probably fears dying is because they fear the fact that their body will fail them, which will result in the oblivion, so in a way they are the same. Fear of dying is just fear of death, just once removed.

Which do you fear, death or dying?

(Thanks for everything again. Have a great summer all of you)