"Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger." —Eckhart Tolle,

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DTH- NON FN AND IRREVERSIBLE 

As an academic philosopher, Monsó is careful, almost painfully so, to clarify terms. For her, the understanding of death is best thought of as a spectrum. At one end, there sits what she calls a minimum concept of death, which must hold two ideas, those of non-functionality and irreversibility. A peccary no longer does what it does, and will not do so again; and this must in some way be understood by its fellows. She argues that ants, which remove their dead fellows from nests, do not possess a concept of death: theirs is a “stereotypical” reaction to the presence of oleic acid in corpses. Other species, such as chimpanzees, grasp death cognitively, and will display varied emotional reactions to the loss of family members, just like the peccaries.

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