If it is true that when you die, you die, then what's the point of living?

Answer 1

Why do you need a reward at the end? You should make life the reward and live it good, duh.

Answer 2

The answer to that is all relative.

That being said, I think the point in living is to do what you can, do your best, and pursue those things you consider worthy of your short time here on Earth. Live long, prosper, and learn.

Answer 3

1. Yes it is true.
2. It's up to you. Find something you like doing and do it.
3. You only get 70, maybe 80 years, use them well.
4. There is nothing after.

Answer 4

I have likened it to a cacoon. A caterpillar enters a cacoon, and eventually a butterfly, not a caterpillar emerges. Apparently a change occurred for the caterpillar in thecacoon, and we change fromthis fleshly being to a spiritual being in death.
May you receive today a pleasant surprise to God's glory!!!!

Answer 5

Well, the point is, it isn't true.
It's just one of the many lies designed to fool us that we have accepted as truth.
More fool us, eh???
Look how it drives us into an apathetic state of mind where we ask ourselves a question like "What's the point of living if death is all there at the end ? "
The real trap is buying the lie that all you have is one life........

Answer 6

TO LIVE THIS LIFE!

To enjoy existence and make a contribution to your species.

I pity anyone that needs an invisible friend whispering in their ear to give them reasons to live.

Pathetic theists.

Answer 7

What is “a living soul”? Genesis 2:7 Dust and breath, that is what we are dust and breath. Please turn to Genesis 3:19 Dust you are and to dust you return. Let’s look at a controversial text. The book of Ecclesiastes chapter twelve and verse seven, (read it) dust to the ground, spirit to God who gave it. So one might ask what is the spirit if not what we commonly call a ghost? First we’ll turn to James it’s a little book right after Hebrews. We’ll read in chapter two verse twenty-six. This chapter is mostly talking about faith without deeds being dead, but here in verse twenty-six it states, “The body without the ‘spirit’ is dead.” Not much, we didn’t already know, but what is this spirit? The book of Job sheds some light on the fact in chapter 27 verse three; Job is talking to his friends about God. He states that as long as he has life in him the breath of God in his nostrils he will not…deny his integrity. It goes back to dust and breath again. So what does happen to a person when they die? Ezekiel 18:20 states that the soul that sins, it shall die. In first Timothy chapter six verses 15 and 16 Paul is talking to Timothy and says (read) God is the only one who is immortal. Let’s see if we can find out where the dead are. What is it like for those that have died? Does the Bible give us any indication? Ps 115:17 “The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence.” And again in Ecc 9:5, 6 & 10 “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.” “Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” God says the dead know not anything. In the gospels, John chapter 11, when it talks about Lazarus death, in verse eleven Jesus calls death sleep. How many of you, when you get a good nights sleep realize anything that goes on around you between the time you fall asleep and when you wake up? That is what it is like to be dead. Look up at the light. shut those off for one moment? Okay where did the light go? Where did it go? It doesn’t go anywhere. It takes two things to create light, the bulb and electricity. Without both things, there is no light. You can turn them back on now. When a person ceases to breathe the breath goes out of the body and the body; it goes where we bury it to await the resurrection.
Are we really sure that our loved ones are not in heaven now? Let’s close with reading a couple more texts. The first text is found in Acts 2 (read); Peter is talking to the crowd about Jesus resurrection. The part of the dialogue I want us to concentrate on begins in verse twenty-two and ends in the first part of verse 34. David, the King David, is dead and buried and has not ascended to heaven. When will we expect to see our loved ones again? First Thessalonians chapter four verses 15 though 18 answers this question for us. One minute a person is alive and what will seem to them as the next minute God will call them from their graves. And finally, Revelation chapter twenty one verses one through five, we go to heaven together with our loved ones when Christ comes again and there will be no more death or crying. Won’t that be a glorious day? I can hardly wait. Won’t you wait with me today?

Answer 8

The point? To enjoy life and to help your fellow man.

To me that's true heaven, hell or nothing.

Answer 9

What's the point of living if you see this life as some sort of horrid trial?

This life IS the prize.

Answer 10

Does it really matter? Just have fun and live!

Answer 11

what makes you think there has to be a point to everything?