What is death? {Is it death of the body and soul or just the body?}?

Answer 1

This question cannot be truly answered, except by people with religious biases. There is no true explanation for anything to do with death except that the body simply stops interacting with the world, that it stops in what we call life. The soul is alive, depending on your individual idea of what a soul is.

Answer 2

When explaining the death of my husband to my children, I used the analogy of a person moving out of the house. The house may fall down, but the person can move into another house. So using that, I would say that death is the death of a body, not a soul.

Answer 3

When the body is no longer useful for the soul for its karmas,the mortal body is abandoned, this is what is death. That is death, or the destruction is only to the body, actually that also is just a kind of dissolution into different components from which it was made.The soul which departs the body emerges onto the plane of space upto which it has being purified.

Answer 4

Death is of the body and not the soul.

Answer 5

Follow the precepts of Ramana Maharishi; Ask the question, who am I? What is that I that you always refer to in your action and thought? Is it the body or some thing else? It is not the body, he understood, when as a small boy, in Madurai, he lied down, like a dead body and asked himself " Who am I?" If you be the body, even when the body is lying like a corpse, there is a consciousness that keeps itself awake. That is the "I" of every body. In the womb of the mother the body is formed with the genes received from the parents but at some stage the Chaitanya gets into the foetus. Then only, it assumes a life. After birth, the Chaitanya remains in the body, as long as the karma is worked out. If for some reason, the karma is not worked out, the Chaitanya may leave the body but may have to come back into some other body, to work out the karma.

Answer 6

Death comes to the body which is mortal. What is immortal is soul. The relation between body and soul is best understood by an example of an electrical appliance.

As long as there is current, the appliance is alive. But when there is no electricity the same appliance is as good as dead. The body is alive till the soul 'Atma' is within it. It will die, start rotting, giving out foul smaell after the atma is gone.

All those whom you have been loving so much would immediately start thinking of disposing of the body bereft of atma.Nobody wiill keep a dead body.

Answer 7

We are made up of three parts, the body, the soul, and the spirit.
Our bodies are made to enable us to communicate with others while here on earth and to proclaim the saving grace through Jesus Christ for all to embrace. Our spirit is the only part that lives for ever, either with God or in hell. The way to ensure your future is in a good place after the passing of your life is to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior from your sinful nature. Our body serves no purpose after death. It is like an empty shell, no longer needed once our spirit leaves our body. The human body is not made to last forever, it will eventually stop functioning. Once it stops functioning, all that is left is the outer shell of who we were. Our spirit has left the body. If you are a believer and have asked Jesus into your life as your personal Savior, you will be immediately with the Lord when absence from the body. If you don't believe in Jesus or haven't had the chance to learn of Him, make it a priority to find out for yourself! Don't be left behind. Jesus died for you so that you may live~!

Answer 8

If you believe in the Bible you would first have to understand what the soul is. Gen 2:7 “and the man came to be a living soul.” Notice that it does not say that the man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person. Second point is found at Ezek 18:4 “the soul (“the man” or “the person”) that is sinning it itself will die.

Answer 9

Death is permanent change from live to dead. It is the only death of body, the soul transfers to new body.

Answer 10

I would say it is just a doorway. But it opens in only ONE WAY, except in very exceptional cases it seems to open. To many the door seems completely covered and there is no way to look beyond the door. To alarge number of people there is darkness , the other side, thus not giving a clear idea of what is beyond.

For some , and the number is growing, there is a small key hole to look through and some training to see through the darkness. The keyhole is the soul in every individual and the special training is in spiritual ways.

The physical body simply slips through the door , watched through the jole that is soul