What's the meaning of death?

Answer 1

When most people think of death, they focus entirely on bodily death. Perhaps that should be unsurprising in societies as materialistic as most of ours are. I believe, however, that there are other kinds of death - spiritual death, emotional death, deaths of nations and societies, and so on. These all have some things in common.

Death is most of all a readjustment. It is not just a loss of life... in fact, some deaths mark what could best be described as an explosion of new life. And there's a key word in there: new.

So death means an end of one thing, and all the parts of that thing are now consumed by other things or lost altogether. When a nation dies, its territory is usually taken up by hungry neighbors, or made into child-states. When a body dies, instead of fighting off and eating other life it become food instead. And when a personality dies, the memories remain but are usually revalued and re-interpreted by the new personality that takes its place.

People experience this kind of death more than they usually suspect. One of the times I died was when my ex left me. The person who had existed before was a very different one from the person who occupied my body afterward. A lot of people also experience a death and rebirth when they find religion as well... even to the extent of calling themselves 'born again'.

When the old is inactive, and those things that made it up are gone or taken by others, then that is death.

Answer 2

Death isn't anything empirical, other than a rotting corpse, the last indication of brain waves at an end. It's the lack of any indication that someone's alive. Death is meaningless. Does it refer to anything? No-- a rotting corpse without brain activity is "the dead", but only in contrast to ourselves "the alive". We can adduce the presence of life by observing an organism's reactions; the dead lack reaction, and are also a ground to make "life" a meaningful category. The lack of data provides the ground for data, but it doesn't thereby become a datum in doing so. Death cannot be experienced. The dead confirm to us living things of organisms' finitude. In this sense "death" has a meaning? No again, there's no meaning to a limit, it is only in reference to the density inside a limit that a limit even appears, and even then the limit is the edge of an edge, what cannot be traced with any thickness. Death has no meaning because it is forever removed from indication, and invisible signs don't speak.

Answer 3

There is no set answer to the meaning of life because you cannot lump the meaning of life and expect it to fit all of the peoples in the universe.
I don't see that there can be a set answer for the meaning of death because some are Christians and some are not. The meaning of death will be different for all of us. A definition of death is all you can hope for -- cease to exist!

Answer 4

Death is that state in which we exist only in the mind, memory and heart of those we have touched in our life. The shell that we are has lost it's ability to hold the charge that is our life energy. That energy must seek a new vessel and it can be anything living on any dimension, in any time, and on any planet.

Answer 5

Death is simply the departure from this plane of existence and entry to the next level of our spiritual evolution, which, after we progress through the levels pertaining thereof , we move on to yet another level , until we finally are incorporated into the fabric of the Most High

Answer 6

Death is an illusion. When the physical body no longer functions, the spiritual body, (soul, astral body…?), then proceeds on without it.

(another), Death of the physical body, is, (another), birth of the spiritual body.

Answer 7

Death is a side effect of living. It gives life value so that the living do not stagnate in apathy.

Answer 8

Nothing without a meaningful life. Without contributing-serving and having a rich and full life - death is meaningless.

Answer 9

physical end, the flesh returns to dust, but the soul never dies. it will forever live in one place or another. Jesus was raised from the dead, He is the Savior who stands at the door knocking but He will never force you, so go to Him while He can still be found.

Answer 10

change of environment for the embodied spirit.

end of a natural human cycle.

beginning a new and continuous cycle for spirit in relationship to its Creator as is determined by the spirit in its creation/realization to its creator.

transformation.