Born to Die, part four

I am intrigued by the way we humans qualify death. This is primarily because it is the ultimate destiny of our species and yet no empirical body of knowledge about it exists. This might lead to the conclusion that knowledge is both temporal and mortal, which would then raise a subsequent question of whether or not knowledge transcends human experience or is the product of it. No discipline, including science, can tell us for certain what death is (other than the absence of life) much less what it is like. Philosophy and theology are the two human endeavors to investigate and explain death, this being possible only because they do not limit themselves to the empirical scientific method. Thus, science cannot address the single issue common to the human experience because death cannot be verifiably tested, and the human arts cannot speak to it objectively because they lack empiricism.