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2006-07-19 11:24:39 · 8 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To enjoy life without harming others and to relax into death with the self-satisfaction that you accomplished everything you wanted to. However, in real life, no matter how old, accomplished or terminally ill one is, a person is always going to be afraid of death. Everyone is but some are brave enough to accept it like a wave hitting them. Some people get the stoic death and some get the embarrassing death. It does matter that we live. It's like being a tourist: why did you go to Disney World or Paris or Starbucks or the Statue of Liberty or the IKEA in Houston? Just to experience it. That's what life is, an experience that won't last forever and it has different lengths and perspectives for everyone. It matters that we die because people will miss the deceased even at random moments long after the person passed away. Your death affects other people in ways that are amazing and remotely oblivious until a retrospective on the bigger picture is done.
2006-07-19 11:51:43 · answer #1 · answered by Emily N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oblivion is the painfully inevitable fate of all humanity. I wish it were not. Living is not to be regretted, though the fear is all-consuming. Living is a chance to do something other than sitting, not that many use this chance. It might matter when one dies; it might not. It really depends what that person has spent their life doing. If they have had an impact on the planet, for good or evil, it will matter when they die. It will mean the stop of their work, be it better or worse for the world. Some people, however, are truly ineffable in their existence. They are thus by choice. If they only tried, they could have an impact.
So it is a choice, really. I have made mine. Now the question is, will you allow yourself to be obsolete?
2006-07-19 12:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by an amateur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your fate is like that of a bug in a river. We can tell you which general direction it is going, but if you swim hard, you can make a microscopic difference as to exactly when and where your fate will find you.
In the big sheme of things, you live to make a fish happy.
When and how you die, exactly, only matters to one fish or another, and only for a moment.
2006-07-19 12:46:35 · answer #3 · answered by cyphercube 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate of an individual is bracketed by his birth and death and all things in between. We live so tha twe can make a difference in our life, it should matter to us as to when we die for we have a lot to accomplish and a lot of that to share ( we should live like we are running short of time). We have to live for our spiritual upliftment and to seek the answers. we live to make that one little difference that will make this worls a better place for all of us to sustain.
2006-07-19 12:24:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Individuals have a singular fate - death.
Well you can make it matter whether you live or die - do something worthwhile the world will remember you for.
2006-07-19 11:31:24 · answer #5 · answered by the beleiver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some pepople give more to the society than others. Bill Gates will be remembered, for an example. My life can mean something while I am alive to a couple of people whom I have efected directly, but once I am dead, and they are dead, there is no reason for my life to be written about.
2006-07-19 11:43:59 · answer #6 · answered by sheba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, like Bonnie and Clyde. Or Martin Luther King. Or JFK. Or Freddie Mercury. Or That dummy named gwb.
2006-07-19 11:34:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your life is in your own hands. If you want yours to matter, do something significant with it.
2006-07-19 11:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by Cyn90 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋