三つの異なる死生観一宗教的，科学的そして土俗的見地から

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  • Three Different Views of Life and Death : Religious, Scientific, and Ethnological Perspective
  • ミッツ ノ コトナル シセイカン : シュウキョウテキ,カガクテキ ソシテ ドゾクテキ ケンチ カラ

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This paper examines the relationship and difference between different views of life and death in three literary works. In the first work, Ayako Miura becomes a nihilist after the war and loses her will to live. However, after adopting the Christian faith, she redefines her struggle with a terminal disease as a “gift from God.” In the second work, Hideo Kishimoto, who had lived a shorter life because of cancer, perceives his death as a “grand finale.” Although he had been a Christian in the past, he now finds dignity in holding a scientific view toward life based on his own intelligence, without relying on religion. The third literary work is “Pokkuri Shinko (belief in sudden, easy death),” and it explains certain ethnological rituals such as wearing a blessed underwear that guarantees a painless death. This work is distinct from the outlooks of the first two works and can be considered as nonideological or irrational. The premodern mindset of Pokkuri Shinko followers, which forbids others from attending to bedpans of elders, paradoxically mirrors the desire of the elderly to become independent. This paper focuses on altruism and independence as conceived through an individual’s mindset and manner of death.

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