Verkkobernard williams and viktor frankl have made the opposite claim that death gives meaning to life. Although there has been much scrutiny of the former claim, the latter claim has received very little attention. In this paper, i will explore whether and how death gives meaning to our lives. Verkkowhile human beings have puzzled over the meaning of their lives for thousands of years, the issue became more challenging in the western world as christianity lost ground to modern science and philosophy. A very short introduction shows how centuries of thinkers — from shakespeare and schopenhauer to marx, sartre, and beckett — have tackled the conundrum of the meaning of life. Verkkoexploring identity in literature and life stories: The elusive self grew out of a project focusing on how issues of identity are presented in different types of narratives, based at østfold university college, halden, norway. Verkkospecifically, with narratives of growth following life challenges likely provide valuable information about the course of lives, retrospective quantitative assessments such as the.
