id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt web-archive-org-1597 Ancient Greeks: Is death necessary and can death actually harm us? .html text/html 2267 185 83 Hermes (Psychopompos) in the Middle with the twin brothers Thanatos and Hypnos (Death and Sleep) moving Sarpedon the son of Zeus to Hades the world of the dead. Sisyphus let Hades go, and life and death went on as usual. 172): "Death is defined as the first moment of the subject's nonexistence, so it is not something that ever coexists with the dying person for the time required for it to have a directly harmful effect on him". But is it reasonable to say that we are alive at least part of the time during which we undergo the transition from life to death? However, conceivably a death might be instantaneous, in the following way: we simply move from being wholly alive to being wholly dead, and no time passes between the two. , Biographies , Life , Cities/Places/Maps , Arts , Literature , Philosophy ,Olympics, Mythology , History , Images ./cache/web-archive-org-1597.html ./txt/web-archive-org-1597.txt