PhronesisWe apply the Displacement Framework to dying and death, formalizing death as an absorbing state — the one displacement from which no return path exists — and the dying process as navigation toward a five-dimensional dying ground state S0_dying. Ten formal propositions are derived covering: death as absorbing state (contrasted with the theological wrong attractor's claim that death is a transition), the dying ground state (physical comfort, psychological peace, social presence, existential integration, dignity), the medical model as high-Phi approach to terminal illness, the hospice paradox (hospice achieves lower accumulated displacement without shortening life, citing Temel 2010), Kübler-Ross stages as attractor landscape features rather than linear sequence (denial/anger/bargaining as wrong attractors of decreasing stability, depression as honest-displacement valley, acceptance as S0_dying), palliative care as systematic displacement minimization, the theological wrong attractor as genuine displacement management under dying, assisted dying as integral Phi comparison (formal proof that assisted dying reduces total accumulated displacement when conditions are met), and dying quality as survivor displacement reduction.
The framework clarifies that good dying is not the absence of death but the achievement of S0_dying before the absorbing state is reached.