why do we not want to believe that death is the end?

Answer 1

because it is not. just as a person discards old clothes for new, the soul changes an old body for new

Answer 2

Part of being "alive" seems to include a desire to continue to live. That instinctual desire exists in all living things, which is why everything struggles to survive.

Human intellect has helped us survive better than other creatures by allowing us to foresee dangers. Unfortunately, that same intellect allows us to understand that we are mortal, and cannot escape death. So in an effort to find a "solution" to this threat of death, we have invented the idea of an afterlife. This gives us the ability to satisfy that instinctual need to survive. But if the intellect is more advanced, it will eventually recognize the lack of evidence for an afterlife (at least the traditional explanations given by religion), and will also see the natural place of death in the world.

Answer 3

Who says good things must come to an end? Why do you believe that death is the end, if that is what you believe?
Everyone needs some faith and something to look forward to. Why not the most glorious place, why would it be anything less?
Just a thought,
If you were asked to leave this world today, would you just want to go to dirt? Or, would you rather see your loved ones again? Just a thought...ponder carefully.

Answer 4

We don't want to believe death is the end because we want to live on forever and experience the things we did not when we were alive. We don't want death to be the end because we want to live peacefully, in heaven...hopefully for most of us. Ultimately, we kind of scared of death; it will just mean we cannot grow as a person and it will mean the END for all things good and bad.

Answer 5

Death is not the end. Some Christians have the hope of going to heaven, while others have the hope of being resurrected from death to life on earth.
John 5:28,29__"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life--."
Acts 24:15__"And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust."

Answer 6

because death isn't the end.. most believers in God know that they will be in heaven for eternity while those who don't believe in God worry that God is real and that they may go to hell just because of the stuff they've done.. mainly most people are afraid, it's scary... an eternity somewhere else just doesn't seem realistic. I really don't know if this answers your question but i gave it my best

Answer 7

Because it's not.

Psa.23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the SHADOW of death, I will fear no evil: for
Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.

Flesh death of the body is a SHADOW of death, a silhouette or likeness of the second death.

Heb.9:27 And as it is appointed unto men ONCE to die, but after this the judgment:

If you are already dead why then after this the judgment?

Matt.10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather
fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Fear (revere) God Who can destroy both soul and spiritual body, that is second death.

I Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and
there is a spiritual body.

There is a flesh body and a spiritual body.

II Cor.5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: II Cor.5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) II Cor.5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Absent from the flesh body, present with the Lord.

Ecc.12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Ecc.12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it.

The spiritual body and soul return to God.

I Cor.15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall
have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory.

The second death is what Christ paid the price for. Until the mortal puts on immortality he is still considered dead or liable to die the second death.

Ezek.18:4 Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

All souls are God’s. The verdict for sin is the second death.

Heb.2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

God through flesh death paid the price for the second death. Satan already sentenced to the second death has been defeated. Satan can’t say we deserve the same verdict.

Rev.2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that
overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Those who overcome Satan become immortal, the first resurrection.

Rev.20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

The rest of the dead, that is mortal souls, missed the first resurrection, that is immortality, until the thousand years are finished.

Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

A thousand years, a time of teaching by those who had part in the first resurrection.

Rev.20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. Rev.20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

The dead, that is mortal souls.

Rev.20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. Rev.20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Don’t read over that. Death, that is Satan, and hell, that is separation from God, were cast into the lake fire, the second death.

Rev.20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

The second death.

Answer 8

It has nothing to do with wanting or not wanting to believe, death isn't the end. I guess it would be nice to believe it if you were evil, but we are eternal, and when we die on this world, we just move on to eternity. Inhale here, exhale there, still alive, just not here.

Answer 9

why do you want to believe that it is? Are you afraid to believe it isn't?

Even if death is "the end", why not live your life as if it isn't? look at all the people who lived that way and are still "alive" in the sense that we know about them and see them as good examples of how we can live our lives.

good luck and God Bless!

Answer 10

Because that scares some people. I choose not to dwell on death. Other people find comfort thinking that there is something out there on the other side waiting for them. They don't like to think that this is all there is to life, just being here on earth and then when you die that's it.

Answer 11

Because death is not the end. If you are a Christian, you will go to Heaven: a perfect and wonderful place. If you are not you will go to Hell :a place of ETERNAL (aka FOREVER) suffering and pain.