How would you compare and contrast life and death?

Question

Do you believe that we can't avoid death by using life? can we as human beings change either one?

Answer 1

I've never been dead before, so it would hard for me to compare the two, but...
I believe in the future, we'll have such high technology that (with the exception of "accidental physical death") we'll be able to "choose" how long we live, and I have no doubt that 99.9% of the people will choose a "longer" lifespan, because, let's face it...
As bad as life might get sometimes...
Death sucks...!!!
I'm not sure that anyone would "actually" want to live forever, because I'm sure boredom, or other psychological factors might eventually make Death seem like a good idea...
But I'd sure like to be given the "choice" about getting to that point...
Old age, senility, and death are creeping up WAY TOO FAST for me...!

Answer 2

From the biological standpoint, life has the ability of reporduction. Being alive, you may have children of your own offsprings. Beside that, you can do many activities while being alive such as moving, breathing, etc. Those are the contrast of the death. You can't do those things when you dead.
But life is more than mere biological when you put "meaning" or purpose on running your life. The meaning or the purpose of your life make your life differ from those of animals and the plants.
Just a thought...

Answer 3

Most people exist in a dreamscape that is tanamount to death - at the mercy of misperception, the limitations of the given and narrow ego beliefs. Full aliveness is rarely achieved or even aspired to with our present focus on longevity for the purpose of endless distraction (entertainment). Philosophy tiptoes around the edge of life and theology has deteriorated into nonsense. Until psychology and physics have a meeting of minds there is little hope for most people to understand the power in "eternal aliveness." You have to read Spinoza, Meister Eckhardt or the Mystics to reconnect to real ideas regarding human potential. Physical death is a choice - whether we are aware of this or not, and consciousness continues.

Answer 4

We can't compare or contrast the difference between life and death because we would have to be in both situations to compare them. I had a near death experience and was in the whilte light and felt complete peace. Yet, even with that experience I can't understand truely what death is.

Answer 5

I rode a bus once, and a grafitti written on the bus caught my attention:
Do you fear death more than you fear life?????

Life...death. the yin and yang of this universe. Where there is life, there is death.As we were born unto this life, we will leave it unto death. It is unavoidable and irreversible as in the existentialist philosophy.
And the question the grafitti maker was really.. if i fear death, then I must be living a happy and contented life and if i fear life, then I must be living in a cave, a dungeon,a tv world, an unreal digitized virtual world.
But what is a happy and contented life, it is one simple feeling and is is what we call love. (and Love means a varied lot to all kinds of people young and old ).

Answer 6

I assume you're talking about stem cells? Hard to tell.

You'll never live forever if that is what you are getting at. Even if you could replace everything in your body, you'd fall short when you got to the brain. And that will not live forever.

So yes, nothing can avoid death. All living things are actually engineered to die. It's nature's way of controlling population and organism diversity.

Answer 7

The dying penalty and life in reformatory are the two sentences used to punish capital crimes, like homicide. i've got self assurance the dying penalty is so exceptionally universal while you evaluate it quite is extra low-fee. human beings could extremely have their taxes circulate to wellbeing care courses than to maintain the life of a prisoner for some years. the only issue with the dying penalty (not a lot now because it became earlier DNA testing) is that there have been harmless human beings being placed to dying. harmless human beings serving a life sentence can continuously be released, yet you will not be able to hold somebody back from the lifeless. additionally, regardless of the dying penalty some human beings wait years and years earlier they're carried out, and a few die of organic reasons earlier they're carried out. area word: some human beings do not study. It says evaluate and assessment not state your opinion....happy to appreciate I found out that skill in undemanding college.

Answer 8

when i think life and death two colors come in mind..........white and black

Well i dont know if humans can avoid death, but with modern technology used in hospitals, ive heard cases where docs bring the heart back to beat......... so i dont know where we are headed but either way death is a natural process, whats created must be destroyed.........so NO we cannot cheat death, maybe temporarily with medical advances, but not natural death which is imposed upon us since the day we were born..............

Answer 9

We can't change life and death. That's final for me...
but...
Like life, death is something... new. There's tons of comparisons and contrasts you could think of. Just depends on your views of them.

Answer 10

Death is the absence of life. That was easy.
That question makes no sense.
We can change them with medical science and murder.