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The Metaphysics of Death

June 23, 2017

4,440 words “Only the dead can know what it means to be dead.”—Ananda Coomaraswamy[1] Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade” articulates his fear of death in chilling terms. It describes a man who hates his job and gets drunk every night. Then, before dawn, he wakes, and with the gathering light, he fixates on the certainty of [...]