What is the meaning of death...is it life!?

Question

people often ask what is the meaning of life...but the question should perhaps be what is the meaning of death, without death and it's finality what value would there be to life and our precious time alive...is none of us could die life would have no meaning, would we even notice we were living without the opposite polarity of not living?

OGHS, quote, "Death can be interesting if you don't scared of that." I don't expect to ever experience my own death, perhaps a few moments before it happens but after that GAME OVER,
I think it's the human condition to always assume & hope that we will pull though... but that one last time we won't even know that we didn't.

Answer 1

I think the reason we have to die is that it puts a ticking timer on this existence. The fact that we have only a finite number of years to enjoy existing in this form adds a sense of urgency, and forces us to better appreciate what we have. Can you imagine how stagnant and complacent the human race would get if we were just going to go on living on Earth forever?

Answer 2

Even if we were immortal, I would like to think we would still enjoy life. In life, everyone's primary gole is to have a good time. Good times have different meanings to different people. Some of us enjoy going out, getting wasted, and winding up at taco bell at 2 a.m. in the morning. Others enjoy settling down, raising a family, and doing other lame things. So, even if we didn't die, we would still do these things. Furthermore, we would still enjoy them. Granted, we might begin to take them for granted. But, if we don't die, they are granted to us.


Back to the point though, death really doesn't have a meaning. It's just something that happens. Sorry, there's really nothing more to it than that. But, to give you a good answer: The Bible says something like: "It is appointed unto man once to die." and then later: "To be absent from the flesh is to be present with the Lord." So, if it has any meaning at all (which it doesn't), its a religous meaning. I don't think I have to go in depth on all the beliefs of what happens after we die so.........

It could be possible to acheive immortality through some sort of superior evolution. But then, there would be too many humans and disease would spread. But, we have immortality, so I guess we'd all get smallpox and just be miserable with disease after disease which would stem from overcrowding. So, perhaps, population control is the only real meaning to death.

Answer 3

Bhagavad Gita states that Death is transitional State only. it is not finality as you mention.

Death is the end of this Body but not the soul. Death Does not Give meaning to Life. How ever you can learn a lot about uselessness of Illusion-ed Life, because Death Breaks that Illusion. When we consider our self to be this Body, and every thing relating to this Body as ours,- that is called Illusion-ed Life. Death Breaks that, showing that it all belongs to God..

But there is a Real Life in full Knowledge of Self. Our Actual Position is Eternal Life... Its True that you may not notice that you are living if you never died ..Just as if you are always Happy and never Suffer, you may not notice if you are Happy...
But then if such a condition occurs why will i need to care to bother about Sorrow or Death...
I don't understand why you attach Death to meaning of Life ?
Do you think that purpose of Life is to Die ?
Death is only a fraction of duration between this life and next.. However you are judged at Death, for what body you are going to get. So One must prepare for that Judgment.

Answer 4

I think the meaning of life is to live now and appreciate and try to understand (by being open) the beauty and flaws of living and other living things including ourselves, other people, plants, cosmos, animals, water, etc. However, I think also living has to do with learning and experiencing and being useful. And we die maybe to allow room for others to come and do the same, that is appreciate what those before them have and to learn and experience what those before them have - that includes good and bad, beautiful and ugly. I mean you can't have one without the other. In order to know how good things can be/are maybe you have to know how bad things can be/are. And maybe when we die there's another world or maybe we just die. But what may really count regardless of what's after death is how (not how long) but just how we live now.

Answer 5

What is the meaning of life? The question itself contains a word that is a misnomer. The word "life" should actually read "death" since this existence that we all like to call "life" is really "death." We all reside in the world of the dead, in "Hades" or "Hell," if you will. And of course, the dead know nothing, hence the reason we're continually asking "What is the meaning of life?" Since we're also inquiring of the dead, we get no sure replies.

Those receiving the gift of life and resurrected will no longer have to ask "What is the meaning of life?" Being alive, they also have knowledge and the answer to the question before it's even asked.

Answer 6

It's pretty simple...the meaning of death is that we're paying for our sins.

Or some people believe that ones short stint on Earth was simply an exercise in biological futility.

With the former, you've got a shot a eternal life. With the latter, you're a footnote in history and will be forgotten 2 weeks after your burial.

Answer 7

Death is the end of life in this world and beginning of life in eternity.

That state of a being, animal or vegetable, but more particularly of an animal, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, when the organs have not only ceased to act, but have lost the susceptibility of renewed action. Thus the cessation of respiration and circulation in an animal may not be death, for during hybernation some animals become entirely torpid, and some animals and vegetables may be subjected to a fixed state by frost, but being capable of revived activity, they are not dead.

Answer 8

Death is only a misunderstanding. Jesus proved this, but no one noticed because organized religion focuses on his death rather than on his resurrection. The crucifixion is such a fertile ground for them to grow guilt they can’t resist focusing on it. The crucifixion is not the true message here the resurrection is.

Jesus showed us through his resurrection that we are in truth spirit, that the body is only a temporary vehicle that enables understanding that would be difficult for spirit to access from its true state. This transition we call death is itself misunderstood and is the source of great fear due to this misunderstanding.
Death is not the door to oblivion as we have been taught to think of it in western mythology. It is simply spirits exit strategy for the idea that it is a physical body. An exit into a far more desirable reality for spirit I might add.

If you have trouble believing this think of it this way God is only love. Returning to this unconditional and all encompassing love is not a moment of stark terror. Rather it is seen as a long overdue homecoming. Love and blessings.
C
Your brother.

Answer 9

The meaning of death really should be considered, since its effects last much longer than being alive. We may live 70-80 years, but there are thousands, millions and billions of years that have existed, and will exist, outside our lifetime. So where do we fit in there?

To me , the meaning of earthly life is temporal, and ends in death. The meaning of death is eternal life, but somewhere else. But where will we be for eternity?

Answer 10

There is no meaning to death, just as there is no meaning to life, just as there is no meaning to before we were born. To find meaning of our existence is to say we are significant in the universe and time. If the Earth were to blow up, the universe will still go on and nothing will happen. There is no meaning to anything...just concepts, things, and people that mean something to ourselves. To say there is some significance to our death would be to say there was some significance to before we were born. We don't know anything before we were born...why would we know anything after we die? Everything will go on without purpose because everything goes on no matter what happens.