superego, acts as an internal censor, causing us to make moral judgments in light of social pressures. In contrast to the id, the superego operates according to the morality
principle and serves primarily to protect society and us from the id. Freud 1990: 150 The id is characterized as physic energy which is irrational, illogic,
unconscious and contains our secret desires. Unlike the id, the ego is rational, logic, and conscious in which to develop memory, learning, and talking. The superego will
create sense of guilt and fear. In a plain English, death is governed by the individual pysche: the ego, the
superego, and the id. The ego will deliver to prepare the death itself. Unlike, the ego, much of the id refers to death anxiety. The superego represents to fear death feeling.
This perspective on pyschological condition prior to death determines how modern people face death.
2.4 Death
With the above framework that personality contributes towards how people face death, this section would discuss about the death itself and death is so
mysterious.
2.4.1 The Definition of Death
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life. There has been endless time of numberless deaths, but neither consciousness nor life has ceased to arise. The
quality and cycle to death has not modified the fragility of flowers, even the flowers within the human body.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj observes that “death should not be faced. It should be
transcended, like everything else. When you become involved in your mind with death, making much of death and thinking about death, then you become
more and more worried. Whatever we believe about death and what happens after death, its inescapable nature is not in debate. But knowing that death is
a universal requirement does not end our predicament - it only pushes our need to understand
what life is all about, what its purpose is, to the fore”. http:www.adidam.orgdeath_and_dyingindex.html
Death is a perfect insult. At some point in every person’s life, he or she must
come to grip with a universal principle - all living things inevitably will die. Do not suffer merely because death cannot be escaped in life. The simple definition of death
is the end or the cessation of life and the permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions.
“Death is, and is usually thought of, as the permanent cessation of any possible voluntary movement or activity, or of any self-initiated or self-
contained or self-activated movement or activity of the body or of any perceptions, thoughts or feelings that seem to be associated with, or that
require, that body. Death is a stage in which a person’s body can no longer perform any useful or important activities and people show through their
physical bodies they are thinking, perceiving, feeling, etc. or at least they show through their body activities that they can do this. Mind and body or
mental and physical phenomena, minds or mental occurrences meaning thoughts, feelings, perceptions, ideas, plans, hopes, desires, intentions, etc. of
any p
erson in real life are, as far as is known today, “associated” in some sense with one and only one body, what we normally consider to be the body
of that person ”.
http:www.medterms.comscriptmainart.asp?articlekey=33438 These common definitions depend upon the definition of “vital bodily
functions” and life upon which there is no consensus. In a sense, the death of the body is significant because it signals, and is a part of, the death of the relationship
between the body and the mind. Whether the mind is extinguished altogether with the cessation of the body’s functions that is, bodily death or not, does not need to be
known in order for us to say someone is dead. The death must come and actually occurs but we do not know when it comes.
Whoever cannot avoid death. The death becomes a terrible thing of life. Everybody will be dead. Therefore, they must prepare a footstep in life to face the death and to
apply in their real life.
2.4.2 The Concept of Death
