Because most people (in the West anyways) are only in one body at one time, how can you be sure, that when someone dies in front of you, that they are really dead? If you are only viewing their death from your perspective, how can you be totally sure that they experienced the death from their perspective, if you are not the "dead" person?
2007-04-11 19:35:54 · 20 answers · asked by astralketamine 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i have died before... it is real but not the end, there are many many incarnations.
2007-04-11 19:41:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are questing reality. For a simple test get someone to hit you hard and feel the pain. You could just say that the pain is just an illusion from something the eye sees but is not there. When you feel the pain, you feel reality, your damaged body parts and you will then know reality. Not just as a series of signals but as the hard, finite and certain place it is. When someone dies, there is no coming back in this world. Ghost and reincarnation maybe an exception for the spirit, but the body is dead.
2007-04-12 02:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by Kev 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes death is real..........i have seen many people dying and i can say it is real...! See a human is alive when his heart, lungs, brain and some other vitals are working.......But once you miss the pulses, BP, heart beating , respiration for quite some times... and it does not work even after giving some drugs like atropin or adrenaline......you should be sure that the person is gone ! and again brain dies after few minutes so no chance of recovery then......yes being a believer , i belive that soul remains alive but not on earth ! it moves to its real place ! that i can't describe.......we humen have our limitations and we can predict only to that extend ..we do know what our God allowed us to know , not more than that !!
Have A Good Day!
2007-04-12 03:53:14 · answer #3 · answered by ★Roshni★ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We know the body dies because it decays. If you believe that we're made in the image of God then you probably believe that we have a spirit - or soul - that is eternal. Your asked about death. The decaying body proves that the body dies and that means death is real.
2007-04-12 02:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen people die, trust me, there's no way you would be unsure. The body gets stiff, gray, and cold to the touch and the eyes get a hollow and empty look.
Anything in life that is precious and beautiful is like a flower…flowers fade; people you love either leave you or they themselves die. No matter who or what you love, it will not last forever. It will come to an end, all good things do.
2007-04-12 02:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a common sense in determining a dead man. It is the cessation of the man's breath, his decomposing body, closed eyes without breath for a quite long period of time and many others.
If you will die you will come to know nothing and you will be useless in society. Although you are rich if you die, no more. Good bye earth. It is your end of life.
jtm
2007-04-12 02:45:54 · answer #6 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." -- Genesis 2:7
The Bible says that the man is a soul. If you read careful you realize that dust + breath of life = a living soul. So, there's nothing in us that survives after death and we are not immortal. "The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." -- Ezekiel 18:4.
What happens with the soul after it dies? It just decomposes. "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” -- Genesis 3:19.
"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5
For more information go to:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_02.htm
2007-04-12 02:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a funeral, seems to be. The bodies are dead.
Now the Spirit, that's a different question.
Physical death is real.
2007-04-12 02:38:21 · answer #8 · answered by spam_free_he_he 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is defined by most people to be different to what your describing. People think of physical death and your talking about spiritual i think.
2007-04-12 02:40:40 · answer #9 · answered by Faz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This reminds me of Mr. Spoke's reply to Bones on Star Trek IV when Bones asked Spoke what death was like. Spoke replied that he and Bones would need a common frame of reference in order to discuss the matter. To which Bones replied, "You mean I'd have to die in order to talk with you about death?!"
2007-04-12 02:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by Pint 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Death is as real as life, and life is an illusion.
Nice, simple, on the face of it an explanation, but it beggars more questions than it answers.
Like your question, which was very good.
Thank you
2007-04-12 04:51:38 · answer #11 · answered by Orac 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋