{"id":6632,"date":"2016-02-29T05:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/29\/why-do-we-remember-the-dead-2\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T05:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:17:18","slug":"why-do-we-remember-the-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/29\/why-do-we-remember-the-dead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Remember the Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One reason, the best reason, is to keep ourselves face-to-face with the reality of death.&#0160; To live well is to live in the truth, without evasion. Transhumanist and cryonic fantasies aside,&#0160; death cannot be evaded.&#0160; We remember the dead, then, for our own spiritual benefit.&#0160; Where they are, we will be.&#0160; And soon enough.&#0160; But people think they have plenty of time.&#0160; Don&#39;t put off until the eleventh hour your preparation for death.&#0160; You may die at 10:30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Another reason is because we owe the dead something: honor, remembrance, gratitude, care of their monuments, legacies and intentions.&#0160; But how can anything be owed to the no longer existent?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For a taste of some of the underlying puzzles, see <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/12\/death-as-a-relational-harm.html\">Death as a Relational Harm?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason, the best reason, is to keep ourselves face-to-face with the reality of death.&#0160; To live well is to live in the truth, without evasion. Transhumanist and cryonic fantasies aside,&#0160; death cannot be evaded.&#0160; We remember the dead, then, for our own spiritual benefit.&#0160; Where they are, we will be.&#0160; And soon enough.&#0160; But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/29\/why-do-we-remember-the-dead-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Do We Remember the Dead?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}