Comprehension of passage about human fear of death
Q.1) What is the difference between human beings' fear of death and children's fear of darkness?
Ans. Children's fear just based on what they hear while human distress enhance and ascertain due to practical feeling which they perceive through spectacle of dead person
Q.2) What is a religious and sacred view of death?
Ans. If human being conceive death as a reward of their evil deeds and a way to enter into another world it ascertain a religious and sacred concept of death to them.
Q.3) What are the painful experiences described by the Monks in their books?
Ans. Monks share their experience in which they bear immense pain and torture, they impose it voluntarily upon themselves to attain
purity of soul. Their affliction enhances human fear of death.
Q.4) What are the views of Seneca about death?
Ans. Seneca a notable Roman philosopher observe, death itself is not a terrific spectacle. However, prevailing practices around the death body like mourning of his kinsman and physical epithet of dead body presents a horrific picture of death.
Q.5) What are the facts that make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise?
Ans. Tale related to agony of dying man, painful imaginary experience of death by Monks, mourning of kinsmen and changed physical body
condition of dead person are the facts which portray death more horrible then it would be in reality.