What is death?

Answer 1

It's a birth into the next life (the spiritual realm).

Answer 2

I have read the answerers thus far and it seems there are a lot of close truths to the question of which is really simple: Physical death is when the Life-force leaves the flesh. Spiritual death is when the soul is seperated from the Life-force (Spirit).

Answer 3

Throughout history, man has successfully coped with many seemingly intractable problems. But death has remained inescapable. Everyone who appears on this earth no matter when, is destined to die. Man only lives until a certain day and then dies. Some die very young, while still babies. Others go through all phases of life and face death in their latter years. Nothing a man possesses, neither property, fortune, status, fame, grandeur, confidence nor good looks can repel death. Without exception, all men are helpless against death and will remain so.




The majority of people avoid thinking about death. It never occurs to them that this absolute end will befall them one day. They harbour the superstitious belief that if they avoid the thought of it, that will make them immune from death. In daily conversations, those who intend to talk about death are interrupted out of hand. Someone who does begin to speak about death, intentionally or not, recalls a sign of God and, even if only to a very slight degree, removes the thick cloud of heedlessness covering people’s eyes. Nevertheless, a majority of people who make insouciance a way of life, feel uneasy when such “disturbing” facts are presented to them. Yet, the more they try to escape from the thought of death, the more the moment of death will obsess them. Their devil-may-care attitude will determine the intensity of the terror and bewilderment they will experience at the moment of death, on the Day of Judgement and during the eternal torment.

Time works against man. Have you ever heard of a man who has resisted ageing and death? Or, do you know anybody who will not die? This is quite unlikely! Unlikely because man has no influence whatsoever on his body or on his own life. That he himself did not decide his birth makes this fact obvious. Another piece of evidence is man's desperateness in the face of death. The owner of life is the One who grants it to man. And whenever He wills, He takes it back. God, the Owner of life, informs man about this in the verse He revealed to His Prophet:

We did not give any human being before you immortality. And if you die, will they then be immortal? The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 21, Verse 34

At this moment, there are millions of people living around the world. From this we conclude that countless people appeared and passed away since the creation of the first man on earth. They all died without exception. Death is a certain end: for people in the past as well for those currently alive. No one can avoid this inevitable end. As the Qur’an puts it:

Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the Day of Resurrection. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of the world is just the enjoyment of delusion. The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 3, Verse 185

Answer 4

There are two types of deaths. There is a first death and a second death. Death in simpler terms, is being excluded to further participate in the affairs of men.

This takes place both physically and spiritually. Physically, your body cannot take part in what is done under the sun and is therefore buried. .......FIRST DEATH

Spiritually, your spirit can no longer take part in what God does and is therefore sent to hell.......SECOND DEATH

Answer 5

Death is ultimate for all living things. As birth is a reality death is destiny. Death leads to rememberence: if you have done good deeds you will be remembered on earth (eg.Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda ) If no deed done do not worry at least your family will remember for a while.

Answer 6

Death is the act of dying. My dad has been dead he had a Near death experience which changed his life completly. He was a life long atheist, but he said what he felt during is NDE is unexplanible. He said he felt this feeling of great inner peace and joy and that there was there brightest light he was ever seen. He hasnt adopted any particulr relgion, but he is spritual and lives his life without fear of death

Answer 7

Actually, some other reader stated that "we're just a body." If you look at it from a spiritual aspect, we are not our bodies. Yes, our bodies are just shells to house our souls for awhile and they do wear out. But then our soul goes on to bigger and better things. Death is just like walking out of one room, closing the door, and entering another. That's all.

Answer 8

In the Bible the word death means "separation" James says in James 2:26 "For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead." Spiritual death is separation for God, either in this life or eternal. As the verse said, if you separate faith from works, your faith is dead. In Epehesians 2:1 it talks about us being dead in sin, which means that because of sin we are separated from God. Whenever death is mentioned there is always a separation of two things.

Answer 9

Those who are alive do not remember the experience of death from previous lives!
It is god's gift to us so that we don't remember painful experiences of our past.
Death is the final sleep after which we wake up in a new world!

Answer 10

Death is the end of the body`s all creative functions.

Answer 11

When Jesus was in the garden praying He started to drops of blood from His forhead, He was dyeing the "Second" death having your sins placed upon Him and on the cross He dying the death mankind must do "IF" they do not meet the conditions upon which life is offered, His death was in the seaperateing Himself from the Father and is fully doing so He died FOR YOU, for the wadges that is the natural result of sin is death, but The Gift of God is Life in Jesus Christ the second member of The Godhead has much more to teach you free on line bible lessons www.itiswritten.com bible questions www.bibleinfo.com talk to me also [e-mail]