How do we know death?

Question

I know that the major ways of kwowing in general are:
Logic, Language, Perception, and Emotion...
but i want to know how death fits into some or all of these.
for example, I feel grief when somebody dies, so I know death emotionally.

Answer 1

No.............you know loss. You know death when you quit breathing.

Answer 2

Grief is not necessary to knowing death. Loss, however is. Many people have experienced grief once, and no more. Some never experience grief at all. This is due to processing the fact of death in relation to subsequent experiences of loss. Such is the realization that everyone a person cares about will die. This does not make a lack of grief a lack of empathy. It is still an emotional experience, it just cannot be defined as grief. Process now, grieve no more. All may die withing the moment. Indeed, rather than being a cold and remote person, those who intellectually grasp the fact of death and have successfully com to an understanding of what it means to them, may relate more fully and with deeper meaning and purpose to those they choose to love.

Often the loss of a loved one to death seems more emotional than to lose a loved one who abandons or otherwise leaves or is taken from a relationship. The finality of such a loss by death or distance is the same. Therefore, the difference between these two scenarios is an illusion, a construct of consciousness in accordance with the culture or society of the person who knows death emotionally.

Death is important to a community. When a member has reached an age or state whithin which they cannot reproduce, or contribute resources to others in the community who are still able to do so, they are no longer necessary to the community and have become a burden. To secure the survival of the communtiy, the unproductive must be removed in order to provide an optimal state in which reproduction takes place.

Answer 3

Someone once said The ignorance of something is known as Fear.
Don't you think we are ignorant of what really death is? no one is there to lay a account of what happened when they died.
We fear Death and its because of our ignorance.
But it need to be explained and so generally people describe it as something whole opposite to Life. But is it logical to know one thing from the nature of other (the nature of death from the nature of life).
well emotionally if we look to explain death with the help of logic then it should BE SOMETHING OPPOSITE TO BIRTH, at birth we are happy for a beginning and at death we miss them, their presence in our life.
Maybe death can be only experienced but cannot be revealed.

Answer 4

Logic, language & perception would be that everyone dies. Emotion is when it happens to someone you care about. It puts a whole new meaning into the definition.

Answer 5

I lost someone close to me recently so I know death emotionally through grief.

Answer 6

Well the Logical answer is that when one dies, they know nothing anymore. the dead can no longer see, taste, feel, think, understand. The understanding of death is best described in the bible, at Ecclesiastes 9:5,10.

Answer 7

The only way to know death is to know life. They are one in the same.
Spiritually to know what happens when someone passes over is to know they've lived their path in life what they were destined to live out for spiritual lessons and have reunited with the source of all things

Answer 8

I dont know what ur really trying to say, but I feel death emotionally too

Answer 9

Know one knows it.

Answer 10

When you can't know anything but death.


When your dead.