If life for many is just about the external appearance, how could they explain the animosity and aversion felt toward a dead being, even if while alive were one of People's most beautiful, is it that they always knew that what really makes a human being is his/her substance? Sub_stance...
2006-08-12 20:43:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Wake up!!! Have you ever processed bodies? Just show the proper respect and let it go.
2006-08-12 20:46:25 · answer #1 · answered by Ray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is the character or the memory of a person that determines their beauty. I never thought a corpse could be beautiful, but after watching Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, I am having second thoughts. I would have to say the corpse bride was still pretty hot, even with a worm popping out of her eye.
A similar question could be ask about the living. Is a living being beautiful? If so, for how long? Some people might be good looking on the outside but pretty shallow on the inside. Others are beautiful because they are beautiful from the inside.
2006-08-13 05:08:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corpses can be beautiful at first, but it is only material beauty. Living people are beautiful for a combination of that, and of the strength of their soul. When their soul departs, that part of their beauty leaves them, and although a corpse may look beautiful, it is hollow. A corpse cannot radiate beauty like a living person. So, what you are saying about substance is the main reason that people are beautiful.
2006-08-13 04:11:04 · answer #3 · answered by metalheart19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not the body itself people have an aversion to- its that there's nothing in it. In essence its only a pile of meat, albeit one we may have grown attached to. Its like seeing a jelly filled dough-nut without the jelly. Its somehow wrong- I mean, three's supposed to be a jelly filling. We love the jelly, we want to know where the jelly's gone- because what we're really connected to is the jelly- not the pastry holding it. The pastry is just a hallow shell in the end.
I'm over simplifying- but I think my point came across.
2006-08-13 04:05:23 · answer #4 · answered by Karmically Screwed 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because believing that the soul is the true person, which has departed after the death of the body, they have aversion to the 'shell' left behind. Also it is a reminder of their own mortality, which most would like not to think of ever.
2006-08-13 03:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by TwilightWalker97 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beauty carried away by the power that kept him/her alive. Another true evidence that I am not I am but someone who gives me values.
2006-08-13 07:18:45 · answer #6 · answered by latterviews 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whew, I was kinda worried someone was going to call you a necrophiliac based solely on your question. Fortunately, however, that wasn't your focus. The jelly-filled-doughnut lady put it best, in my opinion. We just love the jelly.
2006-08-13 05:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by soph_the_soph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A corpse of my enemy is beautiful forever
2006-08-17 00:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by Baby_Apocalypse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we are naturally afraid of death. What else?
Yes, pick the jelly-donut analogy...well said.
2006-08-13 05:07:03 · answer #9 · answered by Evil Wordmonger, LTD LOL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why do u care to this .this q depress people. our life is beutiful not dead peoples.
2006-08-13 04:07:39 · answer #10 · answered by katreen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋