Is it true that no one dies without consequence be it good or bad?

Question

Even the demise of ordinary people has an impact on us. For instance, those who commit suicide become a statistic. In addition, that death will cause great mental distress in the family. Friends of that person will also be impacted. Other consequences may include the changes in other people's lives that the person came into contact. Similarly, the death of philantropists who gave small to enormous sums of money to charties create a deep impact on their families, admirers, and the charties themselves. Several less obvious consequences may arise with their deaths. As one can see, the death of someone can lead to infinite consequences spreading in all directions, which is a primary reason for life being so complicated. Who agrees with this viewpoint? If not, why?

Answer 1

First the definition of consequence:

From Wiktionary online:

consequence (plural consequences)

1. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
2. A result of actions.
3. A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
4. Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
5. Importance with respect to what comes after;
6. The power to influence or produce an effect.

Based on the above definition I believe you ARE correctly using the word "consequence". In contrast to the belief of a previous answer (with all due respect). Just trying to make sure we are all talking from the same page.

Having said that, I believe that I would agree with your statement.

Even the passing of an unknown homeless person has impact of some sort. Consider this...

Unknown homeless person, with no known family passes. The count drops at the local soup kitchen, because the count drops it is possible that the kitchen and now better support the other existing people they are serving. Or the count drops and the monitoring agency decides that the count has dropped enough where they can safely lower the funding to the kitchen.

I can work out the same what if type scenario for many other situations where you might expect no impact. The impact may be small or conidtional but there is always the possiblity of an impact of some sorts.

Just my opinion. :)

Answer 2

I mean who wouldn't? If I were to die today my children will be affected,their friends,teachers. Then MY friends and that would affect their family's.My work,co-workers and the extra work for them that I used to do.Their family's..because they would be maybe more tired than usual their family,kids,kids friends.Then of course there's always parents faced with the death of a child.Yes, it is infinite

Answer 3

I disagree, because life is life. Death is apart of life and it's something people learn to deal with, I wouldn't necessarily call it a consequence either, more like an outcome.

Answer 4

It is false, because everyone dies at some point, and no one is perfect. This means that people die with a reason. People who committed suicide, will affect everyone in their lives. A lot of people who died of illnesses, caused their own illness. But in some cases, it is not there fault that they are sick, but die, anyways.

Answer 5

Absolutely.