Life, no matter how bad a situation you're in, is always better than death. do you agree or disagree and why?

Question

even if you're suffering so immensely, just the fact that you're living, just for the sake of living, is better than death?

Answer 1

Yes I agree because we can do something during the life whereas nothing can be done after death.

Answer 2

As long as I don't know how death is, I can't decide if it is better than life. All I know is that we must find courage to face whatever life brings, and there is more dignity in that than in thinking about death as a solution to get read of suffering. Anyone can at any time find something to do that will make the world a better place, and that is the best reason for living.

Answer 3

I strongly disagree. Death would stop all suffering, permanently. You look at all the people suffering today, whether it be from poverty or cancer or whatever else. Why do they keep living?

The reason people keep living, and believe in a god, is because we WANT to. We are hard-wired by evolution to WANT to live, procreate, and spread our species. That's what every living thing does, and that's how we've become the dominant species on the planet.

Death is better for our minds, but not for our bodies. You just have to choose.

Answer 4

Oh what a question to fathom. We as mortals know nothing of death. We speculate, religions are fascinated with the afterlife and death. Is it mere nothingness, reincarnation, Heaven, Hell, or and expansion of consciousness?
If death brings nothingness, then is it really so bad? Nonexistence, lacking feeling or care, lacking everything. You would never know and therefore be free of good and bad in absolute neutrality. No pain or pleasure, I believe that to be an endurable state (or lack thereof).
If reincarnation awaits our souls in death, then why fear death? Reincarnation merely makes life and death a cyclical part of the universe wherein we experience each in an odd, probably indescribeable way. Infinite chance? Where lies our worry?
Hell? A place of dissatisfaction to say the least, it is supposedly an existence of prolongued suffering. If this be the case, then life would be worth living if the ability to escape Hell is an achievable goal. If not, embrace the flames.
Heaven, the existence opposite of Hell, the supposed place of pleasure and abode of the Creator, should seem as a blessing to those of the living. It should make them pine for the chance to leave this world for that grand abode. What are martyrs if not those who willingly sacrifice their lives for the greater glory of Him/Her?
Lastly, the expansion of consciousness is my personal favorite. In opposition to nothingness is this concept wherein the dead, rather than any of the previous options, expand to encompass existence. These souls, innummerable, provide the continuity of the universe, or something of the sort.

There, the choices give me little to fear. Only one possibility has a frightening aspect, but then again, Hell is comprised of the greatest party people the world has ever seen. Surely Satan likes to party, what with those deadly sins of Lust and Gluttony. If life treats you ill, what respect should you show life? Embrace the unknown, the odds seem to be in your favor from where I stand.

Answer 5

Totally agree. The "Great Unknown" beyond life is likely to be just nonexistance and oblivion, but in the case that any one of thousands of religious ideas are right, then you could end in some hellish realm of pain and torment far worse than where you are in your worst moment in this life.
Besides, the longer you delay death, the longer you give science and medicine to achieve the ability to ease your pain, cure your disease, rejuvinate your body, repair your frame, and make you young and whole again.

Answer 6

I think life is better than death because we can still do something or change something because we are still alive! There's a solution to everything except death!

Answer 7

i dunno.......sometimes this life can seem like an interminable death - so perhaps to live, you must die. in all seriousness, the death is symbolic, not actual. the death of the life that you know, in exchange for what could be - when we take responsibility and actualize all those dreams of "what if!"

Answer 8

There is nothing nobel about suffering.
If the quality of my life was so diminished by pain and suffering I might consider suicide as an option.

Answer 9

I disagree, simply because we have no idea what is on the other side of death, so there is no way to compare the two.

Answer 10

Yes, you're right. Even though many times people don't think so. But it's not up to us to decide when we go. HE will take us in the very second HE has planned for us on HIS time and it'll be over then..........