2007-05-20 00:46:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Actually there is little difference between life and death.
Both are ideas.
While we think of ourselves as alive we imagine ourselves to be bodies living separate existences. At so-called death we see the truth, that we are all parts of a greater whole. After the idea of life has been seen for the charade that it was we may continue on seeing ourselves as separate entities for as long as we chose, for eternity if we wish.
This seldom happens though because the idea of separation pales in contrast with our real truth.
Love and blessings Don
2007-05-20 00:56:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
For you as a person there is nothing outside of life. In life there is everything, in death there is nothing. The very concept of life after death is contradictory. When you are alive, you have the benefit of senses - you see, hear, smell. Your body is the machine operated by and supporting your mind. Once the machine is worn out, the support for the mind is gone. The mind then ceases to exist. So the diference between life and death is everything - they have no commonality.
2007-05-20 05:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life and death is just two sides of the same coin...On one level, I don't see any difference between the two...or where the line can be drawn at least...we're both living and dying each moment...thoughts, sensations, our cells, etc. exists for a moment then dies away...an in-breath is born and dies with the out-breath...everything is both living & dying...
The silent, blissful consciousness/awareness that is there in life is still present at the death of the body...and beyond all that...just a different realm than this earthly realm maybe...lol.
Great question!
2007-05-20 09:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by .. 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ok, life and death are very similar, we all have those two things in common however life is creating and death is destroying, life is the beginning and death is the 'end' (depends on religion, you could go to heavn but still death is the end of your life on earth)
you will find this in all religions that death means the end of your life in some way or form; upgrading to a higher species, drifting as a spirit, going to heaven etc.
life and death oppose each other. life is good death is bad. life is looked forward to death in most cases isnt. life and death are simply opposites in most cases.
i hope i helped,
spear_boi
2007-05-20 00:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Close your eyes stop up your ears, suspend your self in one of those silent dark water chambers so you can relax your body so that not motion in a single muscle is moving, feelings disappear to the point you can't feel the feelings. Now the sound of your heart fades off into the distance and disappears, there is not even the sound of the blood rushing past your eardrum. You are neither cold nor hot and you exist only in your mind with the body forgotten.... (it is automatic, twas designed that way!) Imagine that!
What you can now imagine is death.
Now what you can imagine is life and death.
What we can imagine is something greater if we try.
One point of focus! One point of power! :-)
2007-05-20 01:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by James 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as your life exists, there is still some hope to look to and a chance to make a change, when ur dead, nothing exists anymore and all hope and chance is gone. That, to me, is the biggest different and the only element of these two realities that I actually live up to.
2007-05-20 01:42:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who has created death and life that He might try you -which of you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Most Forgiving ;
And spend out of that which We have given you before death comes upon one of you and he says, 'My Lord! if only Thou wouldst respite me for a little while, then I would give alms and be among the righteous.'
2007-05-20 01:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is knowable through consciousness and experience, death other is not. We stand as outsiders in terms of our consciousness and experience in the face of death, and having passed through it, we can make no appeal to either to relate the nature of its mystery.
2007-05-20 00:53:47 · answer #8 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life has seven characteristics that must be met - the ability to respond to stimuli, the ability to reproduce, etc. Death is the lack of all of those abilities.
2007-05-20 00:50:35 · answer #9 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to a famous line in Hamlet by Shakespeare, "To be or not to be, that is the question". Therefore, analogically speaking, life infers 'to be' while death 'not to be'.
2007-05-20 01:02:51 · answer #10 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋