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This article offers an analysis of the organic solidarity of life in the light of geronto-sophy and thanato-sophy. The use of the suffix "-sophy" instead of "-logy" suggests an undertaking of sympathetic reflection and interpretation or, in other words, an experiential understanding of aging and dying. Alongside of the definitions and explanations produced by various disciplinary approaches ("-logy"), this experiential understanding proposes a vision, a "theory" in the original sense of the term, principally centred on the meaning rather than the biological, psychological or sociological characteristics. Through hasty generalizations, such approaches too often stigmatize conceptions of aging and dying, reducing them to one alone of such characteristics, thus concealing the question of the meaning which, in our view, is a necessary part of a reflection on the organic solidarity of life.
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