Death and Immortality By Josef Pieper

Death and Immortality is a profound philosophical work by the 20th-century German Catholic Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper. Originally published in German and translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston, the book provides a systematic, existential, and theological analysis of what it means for a human being to die and what can be rationally or faithfully hoped for after death. 

Pieper bridges classical philosophy—particularly the thought of Thomas Aquinas—with contemporary existentialism to dismantle simple, inadequate definitions of death