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Death, which has always occupied the minds of humankind throughout the ages, has been a topic addressed by many fields, including philosophy, religion, literature, art and psychology. While death is difficult to accept, it is impossible to deny. Although various meanings have been attributed to the concept of death from culture to culture and from generation to generation, the values judgments, beliefs, cultures, and philosophy of a community can be found in all the definitions, established facts, and perceptions these cultures have of death. Death is viewed as a natural phenomenon in certain communities and as meaninglessness and nothingness in others. In Turkish poetry from the classical era, which was influenced by Islamic belief and mysticism, death is often mentioned together with life and is regarded as the moment when one attains the truly beloved. For this reason, it is celebrated as a festive affair or wedding, while the world is deemed as a place of opportunity to get prepared for death. The moment humans attain consciousness, they realize that everything they take to be real, including their own reality, is temporary and will perish one day. Every moment they experience in this world drags them ever closer to an unknown end. Death, in its most known form, is a disembodiment of the soul and a decaying of the corpse. It would be accurate to say that the spiritual experience of humans, which is a matter of will and choice, is to exist or to die. The death of personal agency is an experience that prepares people for biological death. However, death, whether of personal agency or biological, allows the spirit to communicate with the divine, escape from the darkness into the light, and begin a true and eternal life.

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