Acts of Terrorism

The old saying that as soon as we are born we begin to die is sternly taken into account in Martin Heidegger’s philosophical views regarding death. He states that as human beings, we live ahead of ourselves, anticipating every coming event, including that which will mark the end of life itself. Although there are a myriad of ways to cope with this being towards death, they all stem forth from anxiety. Death is one of the most fundamental ideas of life. It is a certainty, the only answer to the equation of life – no matter what the variables. Still, it is one of the most unfamiliar concepts known to man. In the play Wit, the protagonist, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., deals with her anxiety in...