2006-08-12 15:15:20 · 38 answers · asked by ♥James 2:19♥ 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If one was not attached to anyone, than the tragedy of death would be canceled out...Now if the person did not care about anyone but himself than he would not escape the tragedy because he would care or at least fear for his own life..but if the person was self apathetic as well than perhaps he could escape the tragedy. But, we all have the inclination and desire to live happily. just a question i was thinking about since a friend of mine died recently.
2006-08-15 12:39:33 · update #1
im not saying im feeling apathetic..i think im far from that. sadly. but good.
2006-08-18 08:08:50 · update #2
Apathy releases a person from the responsibility and burden of having to care. It allows them to ignore what should be felt when something as horrible as death happens. Being sad because of something dying is a natural and healthy reaction. Anything else is an adverse reaction that will lead to pain. It's easier in the short run. Apathy is always easier in the short run, and severely damaging in the long.
2006-08-12 15:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by Meredia 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I think your question makes assumptions you rarely see in reality. How many people are completely disconnected from everyone and everything? Many dead people are still connected to me because they were part of my experience. Even dead pets still come tot mind, show up in my dreams, prompt nostalgia, fond memories, grief. You just became part of my experience and I just became part of yours. The tragedy of death isn't just for the people who knew your friend, but also for those of us that didn't have the chance to know her.
I think sometimes when we feel alienated and disconnected we think our death wouldn't matter, and when we're not happy we sometimes think we'll never be happy. But I think most everyone's death matters, and I think however unhappy a person may be at the moment, there is always the possibility that happiness is just a step away. Each one of us has such unfathomable potential that we should fight to achieve, and when we don't we're not the only ones that lose out. The world is so full of possibilities. Everything we do or don't do has unknowable consequences beyond those we can see in the moment. And I think apathy is almost always a temporary state, while death is not.
SO, while death may not feel like a tragedy to the apathetic person whose life is ending, I think the tragedy of their death often reaches far beyond them with effects that would doubtless surprise us all.
2006-08-20 02:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could as long as you realize this is not something people can call upon at will. Apathy is a persons lack of feeling or emotion of a situation. The fact that they are apathetic will release them from the tragedy simply because they cannot see it as a tragedy.
The other part to this is that the process of dealing with death takes us through a stage of "numbness" that may look like apathy to an outsider.
2006-08-12 15:24:54 · answer #3 · answered by my1215boo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not see death as the tragedy, although life can be for many people. What releases one from tradegy is more often than not, death itself.
Apathy is not caring, which is a great tragedy. It's a way of burying your emotions. Emotions and the soul are the true components in this human fantasy.
2006-08-20 13:58:54 · answer #4 · answered by Rozz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This could be answered by a simple, yes. But it is not the best solution to avoid the tragedy of death. Having apathy just shows that you do not love the person who died. The fact that you mourn for the tragedy of another just shows your love for that person. If it weren't for love (and prayers), the soul could never move on.
2006-08-19 20:36:28 · answer #5 · answered by DJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apathy comes from the intellect and a friends death will hit the heart first.
So no... although the mind could convince us all that it is so.
God Bless you my dear one...
We are all somehow all connected and connected for all time so to me death is not such a tragedy, especially as time goes on. I have grieved and I believe that is very important. Yet it is just as important to move on. The path doesn't just stop...not ever, there are simply some oles and bumps along the way. Lots of sunshine too.
2006-08-19 17:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by awaken_now 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
true apathy, by definition means the person just doesn't care.
If someone close to another has died, there are stages of grieving most people go through. In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross came up with 5 stages(stage theory) that describe what people go through. They could be the people dying or the friends and family of the person. There are other theories, but hers is the most widely known.
1. Denial and Isolation
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Sometimes after someone dies, a person is too stunned to react emotionally. It will be later, when they can deal with it, that emotions of sadness, anger, etc. will surface.
Apathy means someone doesn't have any emotional feeling vested in the event one way or another.
2006-08-12 15:27:42 · answer #7 · answered by doc_jhholliday 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't apathy just as tragic? It seems to me that apathy is indicative of the death of compassion in the heart of a person. He may as well be considered as the walking dead. This would be a sad state of affairs indeed.
While one may feel released from one tragedy, trading one for another is not really being released but bounding one to the inevitable chain of progressions which lead to a loss of hope into despair as a personal prison for the soul.
2006-08-20 06:14:09 · answer #8 · answered by messenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. Think of this though. You go through your whole life not caring for anyone and no one caring for you. You have no worries. Unfortunately you also have no intimate memories of that one special night when you looked into the soul of another human being and without a word spoken knew that they felt the same as you do. The caress of a warm hand or the tender envelopment of a hug given in friendship. Change, loss, separation they are all painful. This world is full of hard hurtful things that cause us nothing but hardship and pain but i wouldn't give any of it up for even one single memory of that one special touch, or hug or kiss or love. Life is worth living even if you have to suffer a little to get through it. Wherever you are now at least you have the memories of your friend. That first touch, hug, kiss......Somebody loves you. Yes they do.
2006-08-19 18:10:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is a fearful thing to love something that death can touch."
I heard this quote recently on public radio, and it seemed appropriate to your situation. Apathy likely acts as a safety valve to protect you from pain - like the death of a friend - for a while, until you otherwise able to adjust to the situation. I think apathy for a short period may be healthy and protective by limiting emotional extremes and allowing one to remain functional during a difficult time. But Apathy as a permanent condition is an illness that skews reality and disengages one from real life.
2006-08-19 15:20:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reason releases a person from the tragedy of death. If you believe in the everlasting soul, then you know, behind the pain of seperation, that death is not the end, but the beginning of a whole new adventure. Don't let anyone sell you that "burn in hell" crap. Hell was invented by humans, not God. The next life is only limited by your imagination.
2006-08-20 10:08:01 · answer #11 · answered by R. F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋