Since people are dead after they die, are they dead before they're born?

Answer 1

Wow, what an awsome question! I've often wondered this myself. For a being to not be alive would seem to imply that that being is dead. Yet, if one has not begun life, then there is no way to die, because to die implies that there has been a life lived already. Perhaps pre-birth and post-death are both categorized as "non-existence," more specifically death for the latter. There seems to be no name for the "death" that occurs before life. Maybe you can make the word up!

Answer 2

The body is dead when you die, but your spirit is not. We humans tend to think that our body's are the principle when in fact they are not. It's your spirit that is the principle, the most important entity in the journey through life. While it is good to take care of your body so you can live healthy and in turn be happy, the body is most likened to a car. When you first own it, it is new and fresh with no dings, and it runs strong and fast. But as the car gets older, it accumulates dings, and dents and may just get totalled in an accident, thus ending it's life. The human body is much the same way, it's just a vehicle we use to transport our spirit around on the gravity laden plane we call life. So to answer your question, no, people aren't dead after they die, only the body is dead. The spirit lives on well before birth and well after death. Our spirits are energy which cannot be destroyed. Death is like having an Out-of-Body-Experience but to which you have no body to come back to.

Answer 3

Dead means having experienced Death.

Depending on your definition of Death, Dead could mean many different things - Death might simply mean change so Dead is just the existence after change.

Using this, If someone betrays you, that is a death of trust and trust between you is dead, but can be reborn if the mistrust dies - mistrust is now Dead having existed before.

In a sense, an unborn child is a dead zygote - the change (Death) of the zygote to make the fetus.

Regardless how you define Death, Dead comes AFTER whatever Death you are referring to.


Philosophically speaking as this is a philosophical question (philosophy section rather than the religion section)

Answer 4

Depends what you believe in.

I like the notion that when we die we go to a spiritual and higher realm where we see how we did in this life and get the chance to tlk about it with guides then u go off and talk to your pals who u have known for hundreds of years for like ever and have fun an no no bounds as there is no concenpt of time there and nothing is right or wrong because you are a pure soul again and then u get called back to have to go to earth again and chose which life you want to live and go back again to be reborn in another human body but ur pissed off about it cos everythings amazing where you are.

So therfore you aren't dead befiore you are born with regards to your soul but you are dead in the sense that you have died in a previous body.

Answer 5

properly 'we' or 'I' am in reality me in the non secular experience interior my mind. i'm 'alive' because my mind makes it so. i'm an organic and organic gadget with a mind that has the intelligence to attain itself. My mind holds an electric powered present day or some thing (do not understand the word). even as my body stops operating my mind will quit to operate hence making me lifeless. You became 'alive' likely interior your moms womb even as your mind grew to the point of complexity to grant recommendations, as small and meaningless as they were. in case your talking about some thing non secular bypass down the line to the church and pray for you 'immortal soul'. fundamentals for holding that once you die you'll save all of your memories and go back to a source or a heaven are illogical. Your actual mind shops this concepts. If some thing the flexibility that makes your mind artwork will bypass someplace/everywhere yet all memories and personality will be left to rot along with your body. fantastic depressing ending...

Answer 6

The 'soul' or Atma never dies: it merges with the Universe at cosmic level somewhere, and waits to be reborn! According to reincarnation theory and Karma theory, the process is cyclic: never born, never dead, life goes on and on! People end a phase of journey, disembark, get into the next transport, continue the journey....embark and disembark: no death, no birth. Don't believe in all this, then no berth!

Answer 7

This question really has meaning. Wow, I like your question. I would like to know that too but it's a phenomena. We can't know unless we have experienced near death period. You can search on google 'near death experience'. Some may have experienced before but don't know if it's true or not. Some says souls really does occur. Before birth, you may not see anything, not knowing anything, not knowing you exist. After birth, you may realize you are here on earth. I hope that souls really do exist. If it really exist, then we would be glad too. Soul connects with the body, thus connecting with nerves, brain, organs, etc. After your body is dead, your soul would seperate from your body, taken off all your memories due to disconnection from brain and soul. Just like after you have born, you may not know your past due to disconnection of brain after your previous death. Soul is made of energy so it can transform to whatever form you want and travel wherever you want randomly. It cannot be destroyed just like stated in energy. Have you heard of any ghost cases? They can change temperature, change of smell, etc. to human being. Does this really make sense to you?

Answer 8

Okay well. . . Where did you come from? Your mother's body. She came from her mother's body, which was alive before she was concieved. So, I think, in a way, everyone has been alive since the first person was created (or evolved) It is very clear to me, but I hoped I explained it in a way for you to understand, :)

Answer 9

death by definition is the end of life. If you haven't begun life yet them you can not be dead.

Answer 10

No, because at the moment that conception takes place, the breath of life is place into them.