Eschatologiczny wymiar ludzkiego cierpienia i śmierci

Abstract

Suffering and death, being inherent elements of an individual’s life, are a challenge for everyone and for the whole mankind. This reality requires appropriate approach, which is to accept these facts and experience suffering and death wisely. It means appropriate recognition of the sense and advisability of this reality. This imperative is even more relevant today, when the fear of suffering and death becomes an obsession for the people of the technical civilisation. The recognition of the sense of suffering and the advisability of life allows an individual experience each stage of his life actively and responsibly. The author weighs the problem taking into account the following dimensions: 1) suffering and death and the components of the existence, 2) experiencing suffering as the way of discovering eternity, 3) dying and death ass passing into eternity.