how do u describe death?

Answer 1

The ceasing of life. What is it like? I dunno, I've never tried it. (Added - Looking at these answers, I am amazed how many living people have! Unless those of you who've decided that you know are zombies, or something.)

Answer 2

I would prefer we started using the word "change" in place of death. Our bodies are simply matter and energy. Matter and energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is simply changed back & forth.

The energy in our bodies comes from the food we consume, which ultimately comes from other matter on earth, and photosynthesis (the sun.) Through a long, rather cumbersome process, we turn the thermonuclear reactions in the sun into bio-chemical reactions in our bodies that allow us to work and think.

When the body can no longer convert food into energy, the bio-chemical reactions generated within cease, and we stop moving, thinking and being. The matter which makes up our bodies returns to the earth. Some of it is incorporated into new forms of life. Some of it makes it's way to the ocean. Some of it is incorporated into brick buildings, and some of it ends up in crayola crayons and dog chow. This is why it is often said we are "connected" to everyone and everything. The truth is, the atoms in your body were once part of almost every other thing that has existed on this planet. That's how plentiful and dispersed atoms are.

Once you start to look at death this way, you begin to understand that life and death are really the same... they are just different forms that the same atomic particles take. A thousand years from now, you will be part of a million other things and beings.

It also drives home the fact that if you want parts of your mortal, living experiences, your personality, ideology, whatever, to continue after your body stops metabolizing, you need to procreate, teach, create and otherwise instill your unique way of thinking into beings and things that will carry on the uniqueness that is "you."

But remember... NOTHING is forever. The defining quality of the universe is CHANGE, and it is inescapable.

Answer 3

The end of that souls life journey in this lifetime. Death is really the ceremony of the soul departing the physical 'shell' that housed that soul. The soul is released into the arms of Oneness / spirit again and the wonderful shell is left behind to decompose back into the earth. Those loved ones left behind choose to have their closure ceremony in whatever form chosen (burial, cremation, cast to sea, shot up into space)...it's all ceremonial. Death is the end of that souls current life path journey and the soul departs the physical body.

Answer 4

In this movie called my life, I imagine the words "the end" in cursive will pop up. Death isn't so bad. You cease to physically exist, that's it. Hopefully you've touched enough people's lives that your memory will love on a while.

Answer 5

I have seen many people die - I work in an old folks home - their breathing stops and their heart stops and then they become the color of marble. It doesn't bother me at all. Their struggle is over. And some of them have lived very long lives. Then they are buried and return to dust and that's it!!!

Answer 6

Death is the state of being dead.

Answer 7

Death is not feeling.

Answer 8

The end of the worldly life and flesh, and the birth of a new one in the afterlife.

Answer 9

death is the end of your life in this realm....you go on to some thing else,either good or not good depending on how you lived your life

Answer 10

Final.

Answer 11

The singular journey to the final frontier.