WEEK 9 QUIZ HUMAN PERSON & DEATH

According to Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in his book Being and Time, death comprises all of the following except:

• Certain

• Indefinite

• one’s property

• non-relational

• none of these

As part of humanness, we are all born (in Heideggerian sense, we are “thrown”) in the world.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The world is governed by time.  

• TRUE

• FALSE

We, humans, are existing in time, thus, as being thrown in the world, we have beginning and since we are finite beings, we also have end – death.  

• TRUE

• FALSE

Birth and death are two things we cannot remove from our existence. Whether we like it or not, we will die.

• TRUE

• FALSE

While death is sure to come, it is however indefinite as to when it will come.  Death is impending, meaning to say, it can happen anytime.

• TRUE

• FALSE

There can be no proxies or substitutes for a person in experiencing death. This means that when we die, we die alone.  

• TRUE

• FALSE

Death removes all our relations to others.  In contemplating death, we realize our own individuality and independence from the world.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Death cannot be taken away from a person. Even the person himself cannot remove the possibility of death in his life. One cannot make himself live forever.  

• TRUE

• FALSE

We may accept the reality of death as it is, but it also reminds us that we have to value life while we have it.

• TRUE

• FALSE