title: [Suffering and death from a philosopher's perspective].
abstract: Death is a paradox. Without death we would not be. Heraclitus already knew that we exist because all that lives, ''lives of death and dies of life''. Without death the great chain of being would not exist. The Greeks called humans mortals, but Hegel taught us that to suffer means to undergo a gradual development. Pain is fight and competition, and every individual has his own threshold for pain.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Filosofia, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università degli Studi, Via Concezione 10, Messina, Italy. gembillo@unime.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gembillo
mesh_terms: D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013795:Thanatology