2007-02-28 13:55:42 · 25 answers · asked by Hermes 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
niether it is just a part of life
2007-02-28 13:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no answer to that question and won't be. But if you'd ask my opinion it all depends on religion and perception. For some, life is time when soul can learn, get more experience, become more wise, and death is kind of a gate to the next level of evolution of the soul. For others, like many earthy people who are very bound to their earth life, death is punishment because they cannot imagine what else can be, they are pretty shallow in the such questions. And they don't have anything than earth life. As for me, I think it is a gift. Because there is nothing in life that can be worthier than wisdom and delight that wait us after death.
2007-02-28 22:29:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes death may be referred to as a gift if a person is suffering or seriously ill. That is the way those left behind can deal with the loss of the person. I can't think of any time other than when a criminal is put to death by execution that it would be defined as a punishment. Sometimes things just happen like illness and car wrecks and just old age. It is just a hard fact that all of us are born, and all of of us will die someday.
2007-02-28 22:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by phylobri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your current perception of life that you are living today. If the world seems cruel to you it would be a gift. If life is a great happy joy joy then I guess it would be a punishment, but then you would not know.
2007-02-28 22:00:40 · answer #4 · answered by Don't Know 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm... i think it is a gift in the sense that you are freed from this world, but it is a punishment because all the loved ones you lose on the way
2007-02-28 22:41:06 · answer #5 · answered by A kid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To some it is one or the other. For murderers - punishment; to someone suffering terribly - it could be a gift.
2007-03-01 11:13:33 · answer #6 · answered by Slim Shady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's more like a gate then a gift or punishment.
2007-02-28 22:01:06 · answer #7 · answered by minimule67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a little bit of both. In Hitler's case, his death was definitely a gift to humanity.
2007-02-28 23:05:11 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all about your point of view. Death comes from life, life from death.
2007-02-28 22:55:17 · answer #9 · answered by Gordon Freeman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me, death is my gift of having lived. I won't stay alive to suffer a miserable exisence and my soul instead will be blessed in God's light.
2007-02-28 21:59:35 · answer #10 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a happy release it can be seen as a gift.
If it is enforced on an unwilling victim, it is an unjust punishment.
2007-03-04 19:39:54 · answer #11 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋