Sometime when somebody dies we cry. Do we cry because sooner or later we will die too?

Question

Our cry won't help the corpse anyway. The pain seems to be ours, who are alive.

Beside the fact that we cry because we lost somebdy dear, don't we cry because we will be in the same state as the dead?

Answer 1

I think we cry partly because we will eventually die. I think we also cry because we feel regret and loss.

Answer 2

Why SOMETIMES and Who is SOMEBODY?
Every time one loses a truly beloved one the living person would cry and HAS TO CRY.
It is the painful seperation of that person for all time to come makes one to cry. By crying all our sorrow and bent up feeling of love and affection and attachment to that person bursts out and once that clean burst out is over one gets a complete relief and the heart, mind etc gets calm and cool and settles down. If this process is not allowed to take place or suppressed for what so ever reason or in modern society where exihibiting such cry is treated as not manly etc we suffer all through our life lateron with thoughts of that person coming again and again in bsuch a way we feel some guilty consciouness.

So it is advisable to cry and then calm down .
There is no other reason or thought for our crying.
An exception is:
If the dead person ows a lot of money to you or me we may cry even though not attached to that person because of our loss of money not his loss!!!

In HINDU philosophy our crying and breast beating drives the soul away from this world towards its next destination and as such our crying DOES help the dead persons soul!!!!
On the tenth day of the dead person in ceremonies breasy beating at least symbolically is insisted upon!!!!!

Answer 3

No, of course our crying wont help the corpse. I cry when someone I love dies, simply because I am sad. I know that we all die, and sometimes death is a release and a blessing, but it is the ultimate letting go. When someone dies you are filled with the regrets of unsaid words or lost time, or just the sense of missing them. There's nothing wrong with sadness.

Answer 4

Pain only belongs to those who are alive. It can not belong to the dead. I did not cry when my father died. He was in pain and death released him. Sometime I may want to cry for his memory but mostly the pain I feel is for the loss of what might have been, that which could have been said, done, accomplished, and was not. It is that future unknown that is at the core of my sadness for personal belief. That which could have been and wasn't is disheartening.

Answer 5

When my brother-in-law died in 1994, I didn't cry; actually, I was satisfied, cuz I really didn't like him that much, but my sister loved him. When my grandmother died in 1998, I didn't cry; I still haven't. When my mother was sick and dying in 2002, I cried on the day she died, and afterwards, but not on the day of the funeral. When my father died 2 years later, again, I didn't cry. I think we cry because the person you loved is gone, and there is nothing you can really do about death, it's inevitable.

Answer 6

We cry because we are saddened by the loss of the person. But you are right, it also triggers in us the underlying realization that one day, all of us will be gone. Although I don't think I have consciously cried about dying one day, I think I do have the sadness within me for the eventual losses that will come to my life, and that has to include my own life.

Answer 7

Even Jesus wept. It's a normal thing to do. I think when we have a loved one that is dear to us we share much more than space and time and memories and laughter. I think we have a soul that is connected in some way. to each other. I think it is your soul crying out because the soul of your loved one has moved on.

Answer 8

Well we cry because we face the reality on that time that that person is no longer with us.. We knew this but its in our unconcious mind but at that time we realise. We realise that what we could do for that person? Or what that person done? we realise that we could have more nice time and nice relationship but we LOST the opportunity by loosing that person.

Someone said that

"People cried crazyly on my death;
reason was it was "MY" ceremony but I was not there"...!!!!

This is the reality and thats why it makes us cry that we will never able to have that person in our life.

Thanks.

Answer 9

We cry because of losing someone close.

I understand what you are saying and I read something once that talks about the loss is more about us than about the person that passes.

I believe that most of us "humans" actions and re actions are selfish in part.

Answer 10

I dont fear death. In fact ill be happy when im dead, since im going to heaven, but i cry because im human and God gave me those feelings. So when someone close to me dies, i will miss them and its healthy to feel that way.