Kierkegaard's View on Death

[joon]

I'd like to read what people had to think about Kierkegaard's view on death (from the Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions: At A Graveside).

[Monty Cantsin]

if you've got an online version all happly have a look and get back to you.

[joon]

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[Monty Cantsin]

I’ve read the piece and to me it's really simple. Death is the inevitable negation of life, or rather death consummates life and that death has no afterlife. But as much as the piece is about death it’s about life and the ways of handling the inevitability of death.

He uses the Market forces influence on the price of a commodity as an analogy of what death does to life. Death gives life value because life is scarce and finite thus life is given urgency because of death. He also thinks that in this urgency we should find our own wisdom other then death because living in fear of death is paramount to not living, thus we should affirm some other value. Though he says that the living cannot speak in unity he subjectifies that value in the individual’s affirmation of it. And I guess that’s why they call him a forerunner of the existentialists.

Edit:Is this how you conceived it now or before? How does you're opinion differ?