What is death...................... in your opinion?

Answer 1

Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead.
The End.

Answer 2

death has been a major preoccupation for me so I'd love to dwell on it for a moment with you.

isn't it curious how we say "life and death" as if they were perfect polar opposites?

Except in some extreme cases, this is far from being true. Life is every moment from the inception to the present. Death is that moment where the last of those cells that have divided and divided and divided finally cease to divide, and the last of them that remain wink out like stars beginning in the sky in reverse.

i thought i was on a journey to answer a question that could be only answered in death. these days I believe that my journey was a lot longer than it should've been.

I should've been like a sea turtle bursting from the sand and scuttling towards the sea, once there to swim the depths and survive, to come back to the sands one day and deposit eggs, maybe once, maybe twice.

death is when the energy that causes the cells to divide fizzles out. mitochondria are responsible for this process. i'm told it's a mystery why, at some point, they decide not to process the food into energy, so the cell dies.

you see the process continually, skin flakes and wrinkles and shrinks and sags. it happens on the insides, too. like a train that runs out of coal, the momentum gone, creaks to a halt.

the material still has energy and can be used by the earth, by the soil to enrich the plants and to fuel new cell growth in other organisms. it's beautiful. nothing is wasted.

the memories aren't necessary for the new organisms, the beatles and the worms don't need to know how to tie a bow tie or where grandma lives.

but the seeds that are planted, they have a pattern to follow, the children that look and sound and feel so much like mom and dad. they may choose the same professions or have the same curiousities but express it just a little differently.

so the energy gets spread through the offspring and through the body into the ground, generations pass and soon it is hard to tell where a person who died is not. In the new rain? In the wind? In the flowers and grass of the field?

is my father's consciousness in me? my mother claims my thinking even today, though I cannot say I understand hers. I wonder if she understands everything I say even when I do not know what I mean... i guess I should have a child and find out:)

Answer 3

In my opinion death is where your brain cells stop thinking. A suspension of normal life.
I think in theory that life can resume after death if the molecules of the brain can be put back in order again.

And they have brought back babies and dogs from the dead - having been frozen in ice for days they were warmed up and woke up.

Answer 4

Death is a shutting down of the physical functioning of the body. The soul is released and begins a new journey, possibly in a new body.

Answer 5

Death is a terminal point in time. It is the complete and total absence of all life.

Answer 6

Death is simply the absence of life. In something which lived once.

Answer 7

The loss of the body, the release of the spirit and a return to the place we originally came from.

Answer 8

Your time here on earth has come to an end, those that love and care about you are left with memories. And if you have lived your life right you will be in heaven. God bless

Answer 9

death is the fulfillment of life and a start of a new beginning

Answer 10

No more seeing the sky, water. birds flying, children playing, people doing what they do, holding the ones you love and feeling their warmth. Your dead.
Your soul leaves your body and probably says goodbye to loved ones, and then continues on the journey to be with God. Only God knows what the souls do then.

Answer 11

Death is my chance to run around. And I'll get to watch myself doing it.