XV Международная студенческая научная конференция Студенческий научный форум - 2023

A person, his life on earth and the inevitability of its end will always be an eternal topic for reflection and ideological questions that every person asks himself during his life ("What does life mean and why do I live?", "What is death and what will happen after it?", etc.). The fear of death acts for most people, as a kind of incentive to act, and the realization that we live only once and death is inevitable, brings him back to the question of the meaning of existence and encourages action. A person during his life at least once, but meets with death, even if not with his own, but with the death of relatives, friends, and it, as a rule, brings him psychological, moral suffering. Death makes people's plans incomprehensible, destroys goals and hopes, buries dreams, takes away the joy of life and its pleasures.

Buddhism teaches its followers not to be afraid of death, not to be afraid of the inevitable, to fill real life with moral deeds and meaning, to show compassion and meditate, because the only thing we will take with us is the mind. After death, a person has several variants of fate: instantaneous rebirth, Samsara, or falling into hell before entering a new body, as well as leaving for nirvana.

Christianity today occupies a leading position in terms of the number of adherents (about 2.3 billion), and in terms of geographical prevalence, because in every modern country there is at least one Christian community. Christianity calls for always remembering death, and perceiving life as a preparation for it, that is, this religion does not perceive death as the end. So, the interruption of life for a Christian is both fear and hope for eternal bliss, that is, death is regarded not only as God's punishment, but also as a gift that allows people to move from the earthly imperfect world full of suffering to the divine, perfect world.

Islam, like other world religions, asserts that the physical death of a person is not the result of existence, only the body dies, and the immortal soul undergoes certain tests. In the post-canonical period, representatives of Islam had the idea that death and the Day of Judgment were connected by an intermediate state of "barzakh" [23:100-102]. At this time, the bodies of the deceased do not lose the ability to feel, and the souls go either to hell or to heaven.

Suicide as an active act of personality is one of the urgent problems of our time, which is considered in the context of individual rights and freedoms. The growing popularity of social networks and the Internet in general has led to increased concern about their impact, in particular, on young people. Social networks can be considered not only as an opportunity to find friends, but also as the root cause of death in general. Namely, in the Russian social network VKontakte, the so-called "death groups" or "blue whale" were very popular. In these groups, teenagers complained about their loneliness, injustice and rejection by society. There they found support, which, apparently, they could not in real life. The curators of these groups took advantage of this, gaining their trust and authority, they convinced young people that suicide would help them find the desired freedom and get rid of all their problems.

Thus, it can be concluded that the topic of death should cease to be taboo in society, because this is the same phase of our life as childhood, maturity and old age. People should stop being afraid to joke, talk about this topic with children and learn to explain that there is nothing terrible in this phenomenon, but, nevertheless, we must value our lives and lead a moral way of life. Thinkers of antiquity came up with the following saying: "The one who is young looks into the eyes of death as well as the one who is very old. Therefore, every day must be disposed of as the last, with the end of which our life will end."

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