existence, one of which was death. The participants of the venerable age recalled how their grandparents passed away and the gap between the current attitude to dying and "that" was felt almost palpably. If "then" a person had a premonition that he would soon leave, then he lay down on the bed, gave the last orders, said the last, important words, said goodbye and left this world (and without any regrets from anyone, without fighting for life with the help of resuscitation, without "take the children away", with all understanding and respect for the moment); then "now" it is perceived as something extremely undesirable that needs to be hidden in the ground as soon as possible (like a cat who crawled under a rug and thinks that since he sees nothing, then he is not visible), and feelings and experiences remain misunderstood, unreacted (they try to comfort, not to be sad and to hear tears). Both "then" and now it is possible to observe different, diametrically opposite positions. For example, thoughtlessness ("well, it will be and it will be", "why think about the bad"), or on the contrary, like a samurai, to consider death a key moment of existence, which if you waste, then the whole life is reset, its value is leveled. Accordingly, the conditionally negative edge of the spectrum does not involve work on comprehension, it is rather an escape from the existential tasks of being and from oneself (efforts to forget). The opposite part of the spectrum requires a very significant inner work from a person, attention to himself in the noetic dimension, connection with what can be designated as the Soul. Here it is required not to run away from death and everything connected with it, but to consciously24 go to meet it – this is freedom, choice, courage, acceptance, understanding. You have drunk the cup of life, solved the tasks that it set for you, you have learned a thousand and one things; understood what needs to be understood in joy, understood what needs to be understood in sorrow, comprehended the beauty of loneliness and the beauty of meeting; necessity and non-necessity … now it remains to take the last step, it is inevitable, but everyone has freedom in what state to make it, in what depth of understanding – this is the most basic.

It is obvious that to a painful death or realized in a negative deviation from expectations (the picture that a person draws himself in his bright ideas: on satin sheets, surrounded by loving relatives and friends) somehow to take a wise position of accepting the last page is not an easy matter. But on the other hand, when a person feels good and tasty, he is very poorly disposed to deep insights. Therefore, any unfolding scenario is not unambiguously positive or negative. The dominant thing is what is inside – what position, attitude a person will choose for himself, how deep understanding he will be able to carry out.

Another classification of types of death, giving a different (but consonant with the above proposed) semantic and practical content of the topic under study, we can offer the following:

1. Physical. It would be a sin to lose sight of the bodily aspect, especially since it carries a rich resource. So, people who have even a few weeks of life at their disposal will be a great help (value) such a seemingly insignificant detail as the smell of homemade cookies, or the sight of a favorite flower in a pot on the bedside table, or pet a cat, eat a piece of some gastronomic delicacy, etc25. There are options when a person decides to do something what he always wanted to do; i.e., to have time to realize a desire that he postponed or considered impossible