Is death an event or a process?

Question

Cells are dying every moment...I read that we virtually have a brand new body every 7 years....moments come n go, experiences, beliefs/ideas falling away and new ones replacing them....little deaths every moment seems to be the unwritten law of life. Impermanence.

Is death just a continuation of a process, or is it a solid event in time, or is it both?

Answer 1

I see death as a transcendence... something which is a process towards that event!

you are right... cells are dying every moment.. but they are born every moment too! in that sense we are dying and re born every moment!

there is a scientific theory that our cells fluctuate in and out of existence in a fraction of a second! I think life and death is more like a cycle...
It's almost impossible to comment on death as its a dimension which is not experienced in a state of living... and to experience something i guess the mind's gotta be alive..lol..

to perceive something that's beyond life... hmm.. too much to ask for even when I havent really perceived life yet ! lol...

great question! i'll send you an e-mail later on this maybe...

thanks.

Answer 2

death is a process that can happen very fast and can be stopped or slowed. you can stop someone from dying and going into the next life in some situations where a defibrilater, cpr, etc. can come into play, but everyone dies eventually and that process can only be slowed. depending on how you live your life, modern science has healthy inexpensive ways to get you to 100 years. getting to 110+ is just a hit or miss thing at this day and age. but everything i've ever heard suggests that death is a process you go through once an event is triggered (heart attack, stroke, shot, stabbed, etc.), or just your cells in your body will eventually die and no more will come to replace them. you go through shock, fear, realization, then peace in situations with sudden, unexpected circumstances. shock's usually what finishes it. usually by the time your cells deteriorate for good, you're ready to die. you've lived a long full life by then.

Answer 3

Well the answer can only come from within. The answers you are going to get are going to reflect the person's personal beliefs about religion and death so nobody will have a right answer. As for me, which is all I can account for, I really dont know, havent happened yet. I will never allow myself to believe or expect something thats is pretty much unknown to me, there is no fear, basically just a neutral feeling about death, "it will come when it needs to come". Everyone dies so why fear something that I believe is inevitable. Good question though but I cant choose b/w the two, dont know if its a process or a 1 series event.

Answer 4

Death is absolutely a process. Yes, it is true that your body regenerates every cell completely every seven years. That is, until you're over 25. Then it doesn't. It's kind of all downhill from there lol. On a more serious note, I am in the medical profession and specialize in geriatric care. I have seen death more than once. It is absolutely a spiritual process that entire families go through together.

Answer 5

Damn thats a hard question but, i will say it is a process, From the moment we are born i think we develope, we learn, love and grow as humans as does our body. but i believe after our teen years our bodies begins to decline, cells die, we loose memory and no longer have the physical strength we used to. The process that lead up to death can be delayed if u take care of ur body and stay healthy but it is of course inevitable.

I guess death can be a moment to, suppose u get hit by a truck or u slip and fall on ur head and die, it happens. SO i think death is a process that ultimaly leads to a tragic, but unchangable event.

Answer 6

Death, to me, it is just a necesary process to go on ... where ?, I don't know, honestly. But to me, it doesn't make sense to live to die and that "is it". Our bodies must be somenthing like, just a temporary house, but our escense must be forever, endlessly.
I also read somenthing what u are talking about, i don't remember where right now. The 7 years. I read that everything in the universe is divided in 7. Actually the days of the week are 7, or .. every 7 years we change our hair, have u noticed that ?. All changes occurs every 7 years, that is true.

Answer 7

To the degree that we are moving closer to death from the moment that we are born, death can be looked at as a process. However, at the moment of death, there is no looking back, and no process--it is a final event.

Answer 8

You might conceive of death as both an event and a process, and as both a physical and spiritual process and event as well. Arguments for such understandings permeate philosophy, theology and culture. But some might distinguish between an organism's natural ability to regenerate itself as being a process that is part of being alive, from the total cessation of this capacity which is identified as death.

Answer 9

That is a very brilliant question and I'm actually surprised that someone on here has the mental capacity to ponder such a question. I do believe however that the determination is all dependent on the interpretation of the word itself. I see living as a process and I see death as apart of that living experience.

Answer 10

Dying is a process. Death is an event.