need advice, please without religious content, i am Christian, i just want a different take on it :)
2006-12-08 20:55:21 · 19 answers · asked by forthursdaynight 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You can only understand what the word death means but to experience it as a way to understand is something you will never be able to achieve my friend until you actually die. There is no understanding it because we don't know what happens after we do die.
2006-12-08 21:06:03 · answer #1 · answered by Casey D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without religious content...that's tough.
I believe that we existed in spiritual form before being concieved in the flesh, and that we lived in the spiritual realm. Then we were born, perhaps because we chose it for some reason. We understood that it would be for what was in reality only a short time. We knew that it would be a much more emotionally painful life than the one we knew in the spirit world, but we needed to be born into and live in the physical realm for some purpose, perhaps to work out karma, perhaps it was a test of some sort, etc. Many possibilities. I wasn't given the details.
I believe that life in the physical realm will seem to have been a bad dream that we wake up from when it's over. Like it lasted much shorter time than we thought originally. Just a short, bad dream, because we will have new senses (or rather , our old senses returned to us), and will not have the boundaries and limitations of the flesh and our primitive brains/minds. Communication will be telepathic, I assume, and we will be able to move from one place to another by simply thinking about it. We will remember our lives prior to our experience in the physical realm, and from these memories we will take our identities and our personalities.
All I can say is, life is the real 'near death experience'. And death is life. Make any sense? Probably not, as I really need to hit the hay. Just disregard this if it seems insane.
Be well.
2006-12-08 21:15:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A positive view is that death sets the soul free from the binding compulsions and weaknesses of the body and the mind.
In order to understand death, we need to separate our real self from the physical body and believe that death is the end of just a physical aspect of our self and therefore a beginning of a metaphysical existence. We can not understand death if we can not think independent of our body.
2006-12-08 21:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is illusion, subject to our perceptions. Death is the dormant stage of a person's soul. For that reason, it may become manifest again in another corporeal life; this is the principle of reincarnation.
This is the Buddhist view from what I understand.
2006-12-08 21:04:36 · answer #4 · answered by Victoria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what if everybody and everything would stay alive?
nobody would want a world like that, everything is a cycle. and no matter and energy is being lost anywhere. for any reason, ur body stops one of its main functions, and everything clapses, and end of story. one less individual. it is sad when it is someone you know. but yet what is the difference of human death, and an ant, or a plant!
2006-12-08 21:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by Celine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the best way to understand death is to watch it in action go get a gold fish and kill it or go fishing catch and kill and eat it the fish thing comes from a movie i watched kill bill i cant remeber which one volume one or volume two it shows the concept of a little girl and the and the comming to understand death when she kills her pet goldfish.but if i were you try not to worry about it hay what if a nuclear bomb went off all you would see is a white flash or if a comet,meteor crashed right into you NONTHING right the key is to try to live live without regrets so you dont become stuck hear as a traped soul.
2006-12-08 21:05:16 · answer #6 · answered by soki 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
to understand it is to accept it.
to accept that your loved one is gone and never by your side again.
or you can chose to believe that you will meet in heaven, or like his body may be gone but his soul is still around, or he has gone to a better place without having to suffer anymore.
i don't know what i believe, but i granddad died two years ago and it made me feel better by accepting the fact.
one thing for sure, he still lives, in my heart.
2006-12-08 20:58:27 · answer #7 · answered by missjolintan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What's to understand? Your heart eventually stops beating for whatever reason, you die, and if you're Christian, you know ( or should know) what happens after the apparent sleep. Simple. Go well, and God Bless!
2006-12-08 21:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by Scabius Fretful 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
death is simple thing. All living thing must face death.
2006-12-08 21:28:46 · answer #9 · answered by man_1433 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very simple, it is one simple word, inherent. Death is inherent, and if you can grow to understand that you will understand.
2006-12-08 21:08:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋