Is it, or is it not fair that the second we are born we start to die?

Answer 1

Fairness has nothing to do with it. It is a fact of life that when we are born we begin to die. (The poster above is wrong when he says we don't. We do! Very slowly but we do indeed from the moment we are born. Some others here did not understand your question, it's obvious.) Nature planned it that way and there is nothing fair or unfair about Nature. It just is that it is.

Answer 2

And if we die we are born again. In every death is the seed of a new beginning. Birth is the death of the time in the womb and the start of the life on this earth. It is pretty fair and good so as there is always change and only stagnation and no movement at all is real death. But that cannot be as energy can never die anyway.

Answer 3

What ...fair? Certainly you could turn that question into a positive.
Isn't it wonderful that the second we are born we are experiencing another phase of our existence, and that death, is only the realization that we will pass from one, existence to the next, hopefully learning how to be a better being. Each door that is opened, is closed once we walk through it. This is our grand experience of live, here and now, live it moment by moment and then move on.

Answer 4

Fair? Where did you get the silly notion that life is fair? Or that this world is fair? Or should be fair? Fair is a human construct and has no independent existence in reality.

Answer 5

this is a 'fairness' issue???

fair or unfair compared to what?

I guess you could argue that the second you are born, you are one second in time closer to when you die... but 'start to die'? every cell in your body, for most of your natural life, will continue to do what it does until you do ultimately die... that is take in energy and do whatever its function is... that is what we call life.

Answer 6

Fairness has nothing to do with it...it is a true fact. Just as once an apple sprouts out it is slowly but surely maturing. For us and the apple the maturing leads to eventual death.

Answer 7

Its not a matter of whether its fair or not, (as someone already said), its a fact....
Every second that has passed in our life is now dead, we can think about it, but we can never have that second back again, and death is the same thing, its only a part of life, all of our memories---they are all dead....everything dies, thats how it is....

Answer 8

That is a fact of life. Living and dying are relative. In order to die, once must have lived. If we were never meant to die than we would have always been. Perhaps reincarnation is possible.

Answer 9

It is not like this. We start to die only after 50% of our life is gone.

Answer 10

It is, I believe. I mean, if fairness is what you choose to consider.

Life cannot be without death. Otherwise it wouldn't be life. There'd be no contrast. It wouldn't be considered so special.

The theory that we are constantly slowly dying is more motivation to live while you can.