how can one actually believe that there is death?

Question

sure there are millions of deaths, reported, recorded and even witnessed personally. But how does any of that prove that there is a so-called process/event known as death, when a person, hitherto alive and active, ceases to exist?

you can surely not believe what you cannot see, much less feel or experience.

how does one know for sure that he/she will one day die?

I've only been TOLD that i will die... can i really know that for sure?

ley me reiterate. cemetaries may be overflowing with "dead people". and i may have SEEN many of them actuallt die- in front of my eyes...

but i haven't FELT them die have i?

i'd appreciate thought-out answers please and not just a shrug off thanks...

how do i KNOW that it will happen to me? say i'm not prepared to just take your word for it? can someone prove it to me?

i'm not addressing the clinical proof of death. there's a reason this question is in the philosophy category.
I take issue with the blind belief that i am asked to take regarding the truth of death.

Answer 1

"how can one actually believe that there is death?

sure there are millions of deaths, reported, recorded and even witnessed personally"

-K

believing the alternative is more implausible. If I needed 100% certainty to believe anything I would have died, FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES, quite a long time ago.

Answer 2

How can we come to any conclusions about death if we don't know what life is? The generally accepted idea that life is manifest when the body has all its parts, or a sufficient number of them, in place and in working order, has really never been proven. To prove this theory, a body would have to be constructed and then be witnessed acting as any other living person. Has anyone done this? No. So the question remains. What is life?

According to the Bhagavad-gita, life is the spiritual energy of God. It is eternal-- always existed and always will exist. It's spiritual nature means it will not be perceived by our senses and so people who are committed to the science dogma will not accept its existence. But proof of the soul's existence is possible by the process of self-realization. As the name implies self-realization means that the person receives self knowledge of his eternal existence. It is revealed by purification of consciousness to him/herself alone. Just as when you eat a meal and become satisfied, you know your own feelings of satisfaction, but no one else knows this. And to prove to someone else how you felt would be very difficult if not impossible. How do you measure your satisfaction? In the same way, self-realization is the science of knowing the self, the soul, through purification of consiousness.

Death is just the eternal spirit soul leaving a body that is no longer viable. Thats all. Life is eternal and the body is a vehicle only. Death is a myth.

The second chapter of the Bhagavad-gita gives more information than I could put here. So check that out at the link below.

Answer 3

Death is the generic term we all use to describe the point at which our bodies cease to function completely and begin the process of decomposition. Which is why a leg that has been severed and unsuccessfully re-attached and starts rotting is called "dead". It no longer is functioning properly and has started decomposing. If you have been steadily ageing like the rest of us, and nothing acts upon that process to halt or reverse the natural course of your ageing life cycle, you will die someday. It is a proven fact and silly to debate it.

Answer 4

Ask a doctor. When the heart stops beating, and breathing ceases, and doesn't start again within a few minutes, death has occured. By definition, that's what death is. So proof that death happens should be obvious.

Answer 5

When a person you've known and even broken bread with suddenly ceases to breathe and half his head is missing, one can be fairly certain he is dead. Legally death is the cessation of respiration, pulse and brain activity. Ere long the body begins to rot and bones appear.

Answer 6

Read "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony.

Jesus said, and I have to paraphrase, cuz I don't remember where, that a person who's soul is filled with sin, is dead.

In that sense, it has little to do with your body dying.

Some considered death to be oblivion, or total forgetfulness. Hmmm, if you forgot, are you still aware? If you are aware, then you still exist.

There are also different types of death, legal death, medical death. One's heart can stop and someone can still be alive.

Some people's brain can stop functioning, and they can still talk, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are proof of this!

Answer 7

aside from the other answers - what about those of us who've expeirianced it? I was once clinically dead: I felt a (however short) process of dying, I had the mental sensation of 'so this is death', and I've been in eternity those minutes before my pulse came back.

Answer 8

Death is the cessation of life. The indications of life are clearly defined (pulse and respiration). If the indications of life are not present, there is death.

Answer 9

A little free advice, live life because death will come a knocking and when you open the door and see "THE END" that's it.

Answer 10

Isn't death just a transformation to another plane .