Is it a sign that the person's job here on earth is done? Does it mean this was the end of this life's path and now they are on to a new adventure? Or is it simply from eating poisonous food and breathing in chemicals that eventually do permanent damage to the body's vital organs and have them shut down? Or is it hereditary-based? Does fate have any outcome in death -- I mean, I like to believe that our fate was sealed the day we were born....but why would anyone's soul choose to die, or choose to get cancer?
2006-09-07 06:07:16 · 7 answers · asked by Rachel 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Consider birth as the spring
growing up the summer
maturity is fall
we all know what winter will bring.
2006-09-07 06:12:25 · answer #1 · answered by peppermint_paddy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The significance of death is compost. How do you know that God (for you believers) really cares about human beings?
Imagine this. You’ve just bought a new home which you furnish with all sorts of nice fittings and fixtures, then prepare the grounds and garden. You plant a wide range of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants and vegetables. You clip and prune as time goes on, spray the weeds, and generally keep your property in good shape.
Many years pass and your gardens are flourishing, not a weed to be seen anywhere. You head off on holiday, a weed pops up and bugs start to crawl all over it. Not to worry, when you return home you spray the gardens, killing all the bugs and weeds. Everything is back to normal.
Now consider the universe. After billions of years a little planet (weed) called Earth pops up and it’s crawling with bugs called humans. Do you really think the gardener (or creator) really cares about the bugs and weeds? Do you think the gardener cares if he destroys you? Do you think that the bugs (humans) on the weed (Earth) have any idea what’s going on in the rest of garden (universe)? What happens to all human beings is just the same as what happens to all bugs and weeds – universal compost.
2006-09-07 13:10:00 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Significance of death is the Finitude of life. The essence of death is the end of life. The lesson of death is We are all mortals and should make life's moments count. In Chinua Achebe's 'Things fall Apart', a character declares this: 'When one sees the mouth of the dead, one realizes the folly of not eating what one had when one was alive'
2006-09-07 14:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death was the penalty for sinning. (Romans 6:23, 1 Cor. 15:56) Adam and Eve sinned by eating of the fruit God told them not to eat. They had free will and they CHOSE to eat it even though they had been warned of the consequences. (Gen. 2:16, 17; 3:3) That brought sin to the rest of us because we are descendants of Adam and Eve.
2006-09-07 13:16:16 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the time when God calls you to Heaven. At that time your job on Earth is done. You can speed up the process by smoking, driving recklessly, taking drugs, what have you.
2006-09-07 13:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by mda2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
death is the end
2006-09-07 13:10:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of your suppositions about death were correct.
Put as much energy into thinking about the "significance" of life.
2006-09-07 13:14:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋