Death: Between Ontological Presence and Metaphysical Void

Abstract

Death is explored as a central existential phenomenon that intersects language, anthropology, biology, metaphysics, and religion. Through linguistic and cultural analysis, it reveals shared symbolic structures linking death with life, divinity, and absence, while also manifesting in individual, collective, and cultural forms shaped by history and power relations. Biological and philosophical approaches present life as a system of resistance to death, yet remain limited in fully explaining its nature. Metaphysically, death appears as a paradoxical presence–absence that escapes complete conceptual grasp. Ultimately, death emerges as an open and multidimensional horizon of meaning.