Is death simply the absence of your present state?

Question

That's a quote by someone whose name my brain has hidden in dark nooks or possibly crannys that I can't find. I used to quote it to "clients" who'd call in to the suicide hotline when I was a counselor for D.A.R.E.So, the question is--who was whatsizname?

Answer 1

Absolutely NOT - I believe that death is the presence of another state - different from this one and far better. I realize that might not be exactly the thing to tell someone on a suicide hotline, but it certainly helps people dying of terminal illnesses. Pax - C.

Answer 2

Damned if I know who it was, but he (or she) didn't solve the riddle one bit.
Death is a process, a transition, from one state to another. The process begins when the body is no longer able to hold Life, and the soul is freed to move on. What happens then is a matter of conjecture, no matter what book you read, how many times it has been rewritten or how old it is.
Those who believe in reincarnation say that if the body is deliberately made unworkable by the user, that souls will have to learn the lesson it found 'too hard' again, only the screws are a bit tighter, so it's best to deal with the moment, cope with "now", leave the past behind, and grow.
A bit more than you asked, but it might be useful in your work sometime.

Answer 3

I don't know the name of the person your looking for. As for the quote, I believe that death is the absence of the soul from the body. My belief is that upon death, the body separates from the soul and that the soul either goes to heaven or hell.

Answer 4

I would say that death is simply the absence of life in a body..

Answer 5

Don't know who you were thinking about, but my take on it is that death happens when you return to that place you were in before you were born.