How do you remain so passive knowing death is immanent?

Question

I am one of you, in no way have I broken free from my psychological shackles, the only progress I have made is identifying them. So help me break free, help me figure out how we are all mentally imprisoned.

This is not about a fear of death, this is about a fear of not living.

How do you go to work everyday like a drone?

Why do you fear going out and taking what you want if necessary. If you say you are living each day like it is your last you are a liar.

Seriously, perhaps I have not articulated this question right, but everyone seems to be missing my point.

IMMINENT! Sorry folks, wrong word in the opening line. The word I meant to use was imminent.

Answer 1

We can not remain passive during our lives knowing that we will die. And we do not. We all have an interior urge to find why we live, why we die and how best to use our time.
Unfortunately most common explanations inherited from the past are not very convincing for the man of this century. They were probably sufficient for people living centuries ago but they are not sufficient any more.
All of us had to die before being born into this physical world. So we all, without exception, come from another world totally different from the physical world in which we live now.
This is an irrefutable truth independent of our personal beliefs.
We had to die to the "womb world" in order to be born into the physical world.
Death is a relative word that means change. We go from one dimension of existence into a higher form of existence. Or in a symbolic language from one world to a higher world. At each transition we have to change, or die, in the ordinary language.
People who cease to have a physical existence continue to live but in a higher dimension, unknown to us for a very good reason.
That good reason can be the subject of a whole new question.
This may sound too complex or esoteric but it is simple and an example will clarify it.
When we were in the womb of our mother we were in another world. We were living in a physiological world. It was completely different from this physical world.
When we abandoned the womb world (died to the womb world) and were born into the physical world, we didn't "go" to any other place. We stayed in the same place. We came into a new and higher dimension of existence, the physical world.
Similarly when we abandon the physical world we continue our existence in a more evolved or higher dimension that is not physical but spiritual.
So the next world is not a "place" where we will be going to. It is here. But in another dimension unknown to us, just as the physical world was unknown to the fetus.
Death does not exist even in the physical sense because all the atoms of our body continue to exist in some other form
Now the purpose of the physiological world -the womb world- was to develop eyes, ears, lungs, feet, hands and brains that were of no use in that environment. Their necessity became apparent in the following world, this physical world.
The purpose of the physical world in which we live now, is to develop moral virtues and to put them to the service of mankind. The usefulness of the effort of polishing our character and acquiring moral virtues will become apparent in the other dimensions of life which are not material but spiritual.
Progress continues in all the worlds and is not limited to this physical world.
So to remain passive is to not the most logical attitude to have in life if we have a clear concept of what is life and what is death and what is in our best interest in between.

Answer 2

Death should not be feared. We should rejoice.
Our spirit is bound by our physical self, Our mind is an incredible muscle inside the head of ours, capable of storing endless memeories. But all for one life.
Our soul holds the memories of all the lives we have experienced. But we forget. So when we die, we are again in the light of wisdom, and understand all lifes questions.


addition.

The fear of DEATH is a result for the fear of living.
People are afraid to live because they are afraid they will Die doing something adventerouse..
Or that they will just plain fail. Filaure is only iminent wjhen there is a lack of attempts.
Do you live you life like every day is the last? no I do not, I admit I have become a work drone, but I cannot exactly go to Africa and start my shelters without some money.I would love to change this, but I have too many people against me.

Answer 3

Most of us live in denial of our own mortality. Occasionally we are reminded of it when someone we knows dies. Then we think OMG it could happen to me. Then we bury the feelings until the next time that we think of it. Then we create visions of crowns and harps and angles.....and streets paved with Gold. That is pie in the sky thinking. Very unreal.

I think some people more than others become acutely aware of their immortality and think on it often. And sometimes we are in awe and sometimes afraid. And always mystified.

When my child died my own mortality became a huge thing in my mind. If a part of me could die, then I could and will die.
It was overwhelming. Still sometimes is.

Well, need to be passive because there isn't one thing we can do about our own death. Some times the eternal me isn't all that passive. I get full of questions and fears & the feeling that the spiritual realm is something way beyond any of our understanding. That even freeks me out at times.

I was in that white light once......was bleeding out. But the doctors brought me back from that light. While in that light there is the most peace and comfort than any thing imaginable on this planet. Still with that comfort I still want to keep living.

So, each day we live. Never sure what is next. And trying to do our best here.

Answer 4

Well...death is our great fear, and we all know it. Living is the most difficult problem we all have to face it each day, hour, second...So what do you chose? Death, or living and struggling each day, hopping that maybe we will have sometimes a few moments to enjoy and relax? Who sad leaving it is easy? I believe it more difficult than death - death is easy, you just cease to exist, to worry to feel afraid. And remember, fear is a prison for your soul, fear makes you commit the mistakes you are most afraid of...
And what more do you believe that we can do beside leaving, don't you think that is enough?

Answer 5

Once you are unconscious, it's all academic. Leave it to others to choose the pall bearers. One of the most difficult but noble tasks a person does, is bury their friends or family members with dignity.

To sooth your soul, play the CD from LOTR "Return of the King" last track, sung by Annie Lennox.
If you can get through it without a tear you have not lost a loved one yet and reflect on your own mortality, as you too will cross "the sea" prepare to do it with dignity and without fear.

Answer 6

i'll be honest for some reason this question bothers me ... it seems too much thought has been put into it. we have not become drones ... we've only chosen not to lead our own lives. yes, some work hard for their accomplishments but truly in this day and age we have too many opporotunities whether it be to succeed or fail.... so no matter our ambition or lack there of we have become a society which freely hands out a quide to everyone's life. so to overcome and live each day like it is our last we have to shut ourselves off to pressure and do as we please with manners. with that, if not to lose your manners, life has no other option but to grab you. and "passive" wont have a definition.

Answer 7

You will experience freedom when you surrender to the will of God and repent for wanting to do things your own way instead of seeking God's will for your life. Then you will view death as a beginning and not the end. Jesus has overcome the things of this world and that includes death. We will experience other people's death but we will never experience our own. Absent from the body, present with the Lord.

Answer 8

There is nothing wrong in trying to understand the unseen known as death's journey, live with the knowledge that death is near but life is here, live it and just be. I can totally relate to your question and I thank you for it.

Answer 9

It happens to everyone. It levels the playing field. As for our physical shackles,we do not need death to free ourselves.Shedding opinions and resistance can bring us death and rebirth and light.

Answer 10

You look at the quality of life that is left in the person.
You have empathy for that person but not sympathy.
Knowing you are doing all you can is only a band aide...you pray for a peaceful ending.