For me it would be living forever and never being able to die (even after the world is long gone and all the people in it too) -I would just be floating around in space forever...... The thought just terrifies me! But it's not likely to happen, so that's ok.
2006-09-28 04:27:25 · 52 answers · asked by J C 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
being addicted to yahoo answers
2006-09-28 04:47:29 · answer #1 · answered by JeckJeck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sci-Fi story from the 60's -some where around then
"A Canticle for Lebowitz"
one of the side stories concerns Lazarus...
the premise is that if Jesus actually raised him from the dead, then death had/has no hold on him and the only way he can die is if Jesus comes again and takes him....
anyway...the advantage of living forever is that he acts as a quasi "Greek" chorus -commenting on the development or regression of mankind....
so....if you were to live forever...you could be the living historian...offering your unique perspective on the state of humanity.....take some of the terror away???
but a fate worse than death????
eternally having to watch reruns of "CSI"? oh, wait....
that's here and now...
nothing to fear about death , then
2006-09-28 05:07:08 · answer #2 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death isn't so bad, actually. It's just another transformation of the body, which is just the vehicle we are in. We are not the body that 'dies', but our attachment to the body makes us fear death. Just like the guy who fears getting his car nicked because of his attachment to the car, we fear death because we are attached to our bodies. We are thinking the body is our identity, but in reality the body is not who we are. The body is the temporary vehicle for this one short life. Our real identity is eternal spirit soul, a part of the spiritual energy of the Supreme Lord. When we understand our spiritual nature by self-realization, we can forget our attachments to the body and all the other material attachments and then we become fearless of death, what to speak of everything else.
But a fate worse than death is to take birth again in the lower species of life. The body must die, that is sure, but because we are the eternal spirit soul in the body and do not die, we will have to go on to another situation, another body, when this one dies. The new body we get is determined by our karma, our work in this life. If we act like animals we get an animal body in the next life. An animal lives in complete ignorance and suffering due to fearfulness. To avoid falling down into ignorance again, we should prepare our next life by constant engagement in transcendental activities, or the devotional service of the Lord. As a result of becomming godly by purification of consciousness, in our next life we can get a completely spiritual body. This means no more birth, death, disease and old age.
Living forever is already a fact. We are already eternal because we are spiritual by nature. But we are now living in the material world which is full of ignorance and suffering. Living forever in complete bliss and perfect knowledge in the direct association of the Supreme Lord cannot be understood in our present state of conditioned consciousness.
2006-09-28 06:01:32 · answer #3 · answered by Jagatkarta 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, immortality does beckons a painful realization that u wouldnt be able to follow those you care about in death, however it would present an oppurtunity to aqcuire more knowledge than anyone else has previously attained.. There are pros and cons to both death and immortality but its not so much the fate of death we should fear more or less we should fear what happens after our death
2006-09-28 05:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by John Paul Jones 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps having witnessed a traumatic event ,watching friends and family being killed and living on, with all the guilt of having become a survivor, and all those pictures of the event fixed forever in your mind.
This is likely to happen - it happens to people every day.
2006-09-28 23:45:02 · answer #5 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find this question a bit of a contradiction. Fate and destiny are intertwined. We are all destined to die, and so to ask what is worse than the inevitable suggests it is an option.
It is not an option, we all die eventually. A destiny or fate worse than this could only be to die sooner rather than later.
2006-09-28 04:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by James 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the never dying. Dont get me wrong I dont want to go anytime soon, but I don't want to live forever and see everyone around me fade away and be left all alone. Hopefully it won't happen, also hopefully I haven't jinxed myself either and will get knocked down on the way home :-((
2006-09-28 04:39:43 · answer #7 · answered by fingersmith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
id love to live forever, it would be worth the sacrifice - at least you could spend all your time with these loved ones before they die - and watch their children grow up and so one. there are much much worse fates people can go through if you really use your imagination
2006-09-28 04:31:20 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Gravy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watching Big Brother
2006-09-28 04:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by andigee2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a fate worse than death is to live life in total ignorance of what it is all about and what your role in it all is.To live all once life as it were without getting the point. And therefore always seeking, unfulfilled and living in fear of the end.
2006-09-28 06:21:03 · answer #10 · answered by sotu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A weeklong Tom Cruise film festival in a room that locks on the outside.
2006-09-28 10:03:20 · answer #11 · answered by infernal_seamonkey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋