Faces of Finitude: Death, Loss, and Trauma

One year evaluation of trauma patients’ death

Worldwide trauma is currently the sixth leading cause of death, according to 10% of mortalities (1,2). Injury impact and the death from trauma are more common in males than females. People aged between 15 and 45 years include about half of the trauma deaths (3). Citizens of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) account for 89% of all deaths from trauma worldwide. This is particularly because...

The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense

For Martin Heidegger in Being and Time, human existence (Dasein) is essentially finite in its directedness toward death as a final and unavoidable individuating possibility. In Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Heidegger further specifies the finitude of Dasein, following Kant, as the capacity to be affected by external objects, which gives rise to the temporal problem of the relationship be...

The faces of death.

Close - to - Death Experience after Trauma

تجربه نزدیک به مرگ، یکسری وقایع واضحی است که توسط افراد معدودی بعد از دوره ای از مرگ بالینی گزارش می گردد (بعضی از افراد این تجربیات را به دنبال جراحی، تولد بچه و خودکشی عنوان می نمایند. برخی از مؤلفین برآورد کرده اند که تقریبا ۴۰ درصد افرادی که بطور موفق احیاء شده اند و یا در موقعیتهای تهدید کننده زندگی قرار گرفته اند، تجربه نزدیک مرگ داشته اند. قربانیان اغلب بعضی از وقایع را در طول احیاء بیاد...

Infinitism, finitude and normativity

I evaluate two new objections to an infinitist account of epistemic justification, and conclude that they fail to raise any new problems for infinitism. The new objections are a refined version of the finite-mind objection, which says infinitism demands more than finite minds can muster, and the normativity objection, which says infinitism entails that we are epistemically blameless in holding ...