spritual standpoint?

Question

do you believe that, unless you take a death seriously, life has little meaning? explain from a spiritual standpoint.

Answer 1

I do not take death "seriously" but I respect it and accept it and it marks a clear demarcation to the end of this particular life I am living. Even believing in reincarnation as I do, this is still the only time I will be ME, exactly the way I am now, so this life matters, and death will tell me when it is finished.

I take death seriously, but I am not afraid of it...

Answer 2

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.