does it hurt to die?

Answer 1

I used to be a nurse and havre been present at the passing of many people. I do not believe it hurts, as, in my experience, most people seem to have an experience which amounts to 'coming to terms' with the situation, accepting it, and just getting on with it as the next stage of life. I have not seen anyone, unless they have died very suddenly and not given anyone with them time to observe these stages, appear afraid or in pain, even if they were both previously. On the contrary, a sense of calm and deep peace seems to descend on the individual. I am a spiritual person and my own beliefs may colour this view, so make of this what you will. I have friends who are buddhist who tell me that the western tradition of gathering everyone round the bed to be with someone when they die is the wrong thing to do as the person needs to have time to mentally sever their ties with earthly things and relationships before they leave. My ex partner was buddhist (I am a Christian)and when his mother was dying, he insisted that we all spent a little time with her, then left her alone for an hour. When we returned to her room, the atmosphere was remarkably changed. A sense of calm, such as I have never felt before, descended on all of us and the lady concerned was asleep, breathing easily (unlike before) and had a faint smile on her face . She slipped away a few minutes later and our grief was for ourselves, not her, as we all had the sense that she was ok. A profound experience that I will never forget. A good book to read if you are interested (I am afraid I do not have more than the title, but a bookshop should be able to help) is 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' which explained a lot to me and doesn't require you to be a buddhist for it to make sense. I hope I have helped and that you are not worried about yourself or anyone else in this respect. Love XXXXX

Answer 2

Emotionally it hurts us, and it hurts the ones that love us.
But it depends on the type of death.
Having had a near death experience I can tell you that bleeding to death is not fun, and it is said to be one of the most painful.
Yes it hurt so bad when I think back I still can feel that pain in my mind. And I do not want to die that way ever again.

Answer 3

I believe it would be because death is the end of your body's functions and in order to do that you may experience some pain, although in medical terms you can die several times and still be alive i.e if your heart stops or you have heart surgery you are technically dead and I am not sure how much that hurts.

Answer 4

It would depend on how long of a time you would consider one to have feeling, AFTER they die. I don't think anyone has feeling after their dead. However, the suffering before one dies (from an accident for example) must be painful. I've heard from many that dying is actually quite peaceful.

Answer 5

The best way to die is to go to sleep and wake up dead. That would not hurt at all.

Answer 6

dying can be painful. But the actual moment of death would not be, since you cease to exist. When you die, you cease to exist and to feel physical pain. So dying might hurt, but to die almost certainly does not. One of my favorite philosophers, Epicurus, used this as an argument against being afraid of death. He said that its illogical to be afraid of something that you do not and can not actually experience. Since death is the end of experience, you should not fear it. Perhaps you can be afraid of dying, but dying is usually not a long experience.

Answer 7

we may not know until we experience by our self as we will be living our life happily we will not have any and querries abt diying but there are many ways to die as there are people and ways to live .it depends upon the views of people even we may die when we r sleeping , what kind of situation are we facing , one will know it after our self experience no one can feel ur pain only u will be the one to feel it after u face the situation so better be ready to face itttttttttt....

Answer 8

I imagine it hurts to die, but I don't think the pain is unbearable. Barring extraordinary circumstances, the pain of death won't be any worse than any pain you've felt while living.

Answer 9

No. Death itself does not hurt. As the soul leaves the body there is an almost orgasmic release of ecstacy.
Of course, the events leading up to death may be painful, but not death

Answer 10

i dont think it hurts to die. though i never died in this lifetime.
i think you can suffer physically if you are alive, but you cant suffer if you are dieing. cause...you're dieing (0_o)
once the soul is out all thats left is the shell (the body).

dont use movies that exaggerate death, to confirm that death is physically painful.