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It goes without saying that death is beyond the sphere of scientific recognition and cannot be understood purely on the basis of logic. Nobody can describe the experience. Death also forces us, unknowing as we are of the experience, to take leave of this world. Perhaps because of that, death has from ancient times been considered to be an unwelcome, fearsome event. The 17th century French essayist La Rochefoucauld stated that the two things that could not be doubted were the sun and death.
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Inoue, K. (1988). Various Environments Surrounding Death among the Japanese Elderly. In: Gilmore, A., Gilmore, S. (eds) A Safer Death. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8359-2_7
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