Is the human experience in your opinion social?

Question

Do you think there is any part of the human experience that isn't social? By social it means either with others or influenced by others.

Do you think death is part of the human experience and is it social?

Thanks for your honest, sincere answers. I am trying to understand the death of my Dad and how it relates to the human experience.

Answer 1

I am sorry to hear about the death of your father... my condolences. Most human experience is social, except for those things we do in the privacy of our homes and cubicles.

Death is a social experience if we are fortunate to have any loved ones around when it happens, such as hospice. Death is perhaps the most difficult thing to understand.

Answer 2

Yes, all human activity is what you would consider "Social" and death is a big factor in this, or in the way of life. I know it isn't an easy thing to handle when a loved one passes away, but you must know they aren't suffering anymore and they will never have to worry or be in pain again. Death in a natural thing, hard to handle, but it will always happen no matter what you try to do to stop it. The best thing for you to do to help with your fathers death is except that he has passed (yes this will be the hardest part, and it is easier said than done, but it has to be done), have a good friend there to talk to, remember all the good things that happened with him and try not to attach yourself to things of his that are left behind. Not saying get rid of all his old stuff, but put it to use. Don't just leave it laying around because it is his, I'm sure he would have wanted you to use it. Well good luck and everything will be okay.

Answer 3

Human experience by nature is social. Because humans by all indication is gregarious. He can not exist by himself.

Death, per se, is part of the natural life processess in the life cycle of an individual. Death is an extension of life. Every thing has a beginning and an end. Immortal Man as he was born came to life. His birth marks his beginning. His death marks his end. Thus, the horizontal position, he assumes at birth , become the upright or vertical position he assumes as he grows and develops from childhood into adulthood. As he grows into maturity and ages, the vertical position slowly..... gradually becomes into the orginal horizontal plane. This culminates in death. As the breath of life succumbs to death. This completes the life cycle of a human being.

Death is a very social experience as it impacts all his environment, friends and his loved ones that he leaves behind .

Whether, you're willing to accept your beloved Dad's death or not. his death is inevitable. Look at it this way. He's free of his sufferings if he had any. As death makes us immune from harm. Even if his physical body is gone, his eternal soul survives. He's gone back into the arms of his Creator. He has gone home into the kingdom of God who promises everlasting life and joy and free of sorrows and sufferings.

Premature death is a misfortune. It is a good thing that we are not immortal. Since we can not continue to be who we are now and remain meaningfully, attached to life forever.

So if any, you have the good memories of him to cherish. Consider the marks and contributions he made in your own existence and that of others. Because we "pass this way but once ".

I sympathize with you how you feel. Because I had the very same intimate experience when i lost my husband, then my mother and father. They made such an impact. I did suffer the loss since I had hands-on experience. I was there at their dying bedside when they took their last breath. I'm consoled that at least I was there for them And they did not die alone. Death was still social. It was in the company of the loved ones.

By talking about your loss, is a positive way to recovery. in dealing with the grief depression.

And remember, that the "The only way to take the
sorrow out of death is to take love out of life".

Answer 4

...Certanly the death and the born are a big experiences.
...All in the life are cicles : Day / Night, Winter / Summer - We change of planes all the time;
...One time we are here in the body, other time we are without the body.
...Now your dad is living an "natural" experience, he isn't in the jail of body. It is very disconfortable and have a lot of limits.
...He stay felling your sad, think positive and send to he all good thinks with you can.

Answer 5

Death. Do humans being die?

If the answer is "YES" then, ddddaaaahhhhhhhhh......"death is part of the human experience" isnt it?

As far as your dad's death is conerned: there's nothing you could possibly "understand" about death that would give you any insight.

He died. Period. And so will you. So what?

This is the human experinece: so what?

Answer 6

Everything human's do, for the most part, is social. Everything we do, everything that happens to us, is made better by talking about it to our peers/friends. I hope this helped.

Answer 7

Death may be social for your loved ones and family, but you die alone, just as you are born alone.

Answer 8

I think the human experience is emotional.