Is the only reason we die, because we accept it as an inevitability?

Answer 1

I don't know that we do accept it.
In fact, I would submit that, today and throughout history, a significant part of the energy of individuals and of human civilization has been devoted to the struggle to conquer, or at least stave off, death. (This can be seen reflected not only in our scientific and technologocal endeavors but in religious speculation as well.)
We have certainly succeeded in prolonging life and in virtually erasing certain cases of death, and imaginative scientists dare to speculate that it is at least theoretically possible that humans could be made immortal.
As we make ever-greater progress in understanding the mechanisms of disease and aging, we may yet get there.

If I want to live to see it, however, I suppose I should start taking better care of myself....

Answer 2

I don't believe that it's all about inevitability, but because that we grow old. Face it, we are born, grow old then die because this is how God had it planned. Now I do believe that we could have had a longer life span if our society and progress hadn't gone overboard with the smog and the ozone layer being what it is and the hazordous fumes that contaminates our world today. Maybe if we had a better lifestyle and not over indulge we might have had longer lives but still one has to die so another can be born.We live harder lives and jobs that take toll on our bodies and they just wear out.And we have diseases now, that back hundreds of yrs ago they didn't have so they lived alot longer than what we do now.So I feel it's a conbination of things just not inevitability.

Answer 3

We could conceivably live for an indefinite length of time. However, our cells can only divide so many times. Each division detracts from the overall quality of the new generation of cells. "Aging" is only the advancement of this process. As our cells no longer retain as much water as before, we begin to shrivel (like old people), and eventually, we die.

So... no, accepting death as an inevitability isn't the only reason we die. There are biological functions at work that supersede human contemplation on death.

Answer 4

Sounds simple enough, if our belief and thought process is to die, then this will be our ultimate outcome. However, a total transformation in the beliefs of humans, everywhere and every single one on this planet, can change the span of our lives. A slight example, if everyone believes he or she should live until they are at least 110 years old, after generations and generations (taking away medical advancements and/or technology), the thought pattern will shift and our bodies will react to this change and humans will live longer. IMO of course.

Answer 5

I'm not sure "we" die. I think just the body does, and this is why.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 6

perhaps, but then how do you explain the freak accidents that kill people.

if i'm 23 years old and i think i have decades of life left to live and then i get in a car accident where i'm killed instantly....well, did i even have a chance to realize what was happening and acknowledge it as "fatal" and then "die" in my mind and then die physically??? it all depends on if there was a realization of the accident and the injuries or not.

if there was no realization, then we die whether we like it or not. if there was a realization, then your theory may be plausible.

matrix anyone??

take care.

Answer 7

we die because we stop living...ultimately the body that we posses will cease to exist..that is inevitable..some die many small deaths while they are alive, some can continue to live even after they are dead...it all depends on what your definition of 'self' is....

Answer 8

He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain,'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."

To answer your question, in many ways, yes. I had a lucid dream and I tried to fly, I couldn't. That dream proved to me that my faith is lacking. The only rules in the dream world are those which are self imposed, if my faith is not strong enough in a land of no rules how can I possibly break free in a land of seemingly real rules? So it is my opinion that just as Yeshua stated, if we truly believe, nothing is impossible.

Answer 9

everything in life is inevitable, it's how you make your life and what you choose in life that is inevitable. It's not when you die, it's how you choose to die

Answer 10

I believe the answer to that is NO. We are born to die. Nothing lasts forever. Just by believing something does not make it so unfortunately.