Dialogues with Death Experiences at the End of Life
Benjamín Emanuel Silva Luévanos
Journal of Psychiatry Research & Reports March 31, 2025 DOI: 10.52106/3065-5501.1012 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Impossibility Spirituality Mental health Dimension graph theory Human life Human dimension Health care Epistemology Meaning existential Human condition Afterlife |
| Key points | Argues that the fear of death arises from a mechanistic worldview and that reintegrating spirituality through phenomena like Holotropic Breathwork and end-of-life experiences is essential for mental health care. |
Abstract
The fear of death, even reaching a disabling fear, is the result of the mechanistic vision of the human being, which derived from the Newtonian Cartesian understanding of reality, leaving human knowledge in the impossibility of understanding and assimilating the ancestral experiences of human spiritual life, from which it is essential to generate spaces that consider the reintegration of the dimension of human spirituality in such a way that it is possible to incorporate into daily experience not only the physical absence of the deceased person, but also one’s own finitude and the consideration of personal death. Therefore, turning our attention to phenomena such as Holotropic Breathwork, Close Encounters with Death and End-of-Life Experiences, among others, are today essential for the comprehensive care of mental health and people’s health in general.