Capsule Summary This attractive book gives a comprehensive exposition to the lasting meditation of humanity on"to be or not to be. "It involves Culture Philosophy, Aesthetics, Mytholoy and Hermeneutics with a plenty of date in art & culture It divides into five parts successive logically. The intro- duction epitomizes reflections by thinkers upon this subject The ontology part interprets typical views by oriental-west- ern authors on existence philosophy death consciousness The axiology part analyses much artistic text regarding life and- death reflections. The part on creation expounds the artistic conceptions about death on the basis of plenty of his- toric phenomena in art the final part analyses the aesthetic discovery of these artistic conceptions on the party of the ap precatory