Do you beleive that you can only live your life fully if you do not fear death? Death is only the reverse of birth. Do you think so too?
2007-06-21 04:58:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I agree: you CAN'T fully enjoy life if you're afraid to die. If you've ever said something like, "I'd love to go white-water rafting, but I know someone who died (doing it)," you're wearing the cloak of fear ... and are depriving yourself of some of the most exhilirating experiences life has to offer.
I'd take your premise one step further: to fully enjoy life, you can't fear ANYTHING. I don't mean you shouldn't exercise caution--you should. After you've taken the necessary precautions, though, go on and, as Thoreau says in "Walden," "Suck the marrow out of life."
I also agree when you say, "Death is only the reverse of birth." They're different sides of the same coin. Moreover, to the extent that life is temporary, I believe death is no different.
2007-06-21 10:46:49 · answer #1 · answered by BlakWriter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"death is the only adventure"
"suicide is the first philosophical question"
does not really fear death only the suffering that tends to go with it
does not believe it is possible to live life to the fullest. Fullest sounds like perfection to me and we don’t believe in that. So we are left with better life, worse life. Has to fall some ware on the scale between the two. More fear of death will take away from some of the better life side while adding others to the worse life side. The same could be said for less fear of death. Guess what we are trying to say is it is a personal thing that very from situation to situation with so many variables falling all over the place it is to much to summaries
"shads of grey is all I see fragments of what could have been"
2007-06-21 06:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agreed in part but life and death aren't any different than good and bad. They are only the split state of one real thing. Neither life nor death exist alone.
You can see for yourself that life eats death every moment. Go out and look at a 'dead' animal on the side of the road. Life is consuming it and absorbing it. Nothing has slowed or stopped in the universal process.
In birth is death and in death is birth.
What you fear is the ending of the imagined idea called 'you' that you have built through the use of memory and future projection. You cling to that idea and hope to exist as this imagined 'you' forever.
The living organism could care less about this imagined idea and will follow the spontaneous and living process of disintigration/absorbtion without a fight.
The idea of 'you' will fight for continuity until it is gone.
2007-06-21 05:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO not necessarily. Just because one does not fear death does not mean that this would automatically lead to a better life. Think of someone without the mental ability to comprehend death, or someone too stupid to fear. (they exist i swear)
However having said that I believe anyone who is fearful of anything will be negatively impacting the decisions they make in their lives. Decisions made based on any strong emotion, especially a generally negative emotion like fear, are unlikely to be fully considered from all perspectives and therefore will probably result in a guarded or 'closed off' way of life.
I think it would be reasonable to say one of the largest sources of fear for humans is death, therefore if this could be overcome it would stand to reason that one would be in a better position to make better decisions and therefore lead a better life.
Lets not forget about the guys from 'Jackass' though, because they clearly don't fear death, but do you think any of their decisions are good / fulfilling / intelligent / enlightened?
2007-06-21 22:55:07 · answer #4 · answered by Bushllit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You begin to die at the moment of your birth. The lack of a full life comes from personal insecurities or being too lazy to go for it. The only thing the fear of death may prevent you from doing is a dangerous activity - like climbing Mt Everest or something like that. People who do these dangerous activities are aware of the chance they are taking.
2007-06-21 05:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by nanad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what of pain and sorrow. if someone who was depressed felt these things and did not fear death who complete could they live their lives? if you were not afraid of anything, you'd be putting yourself in situations were the likelihood of death is high, thereby decrease chance for someone to fully live their life if it is length and not experience that you seek. but even if it were experience a person would not know limits if not afraid of death, or would push himself to an extreme to experience something new.
2007-06-21 06:04:09 · answer #6 · answered by Flabbergasted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the key to living because if we didnt fear death then we wouldnt live our lives to the full because they would never end! also adrenaline is usually fear of death and that's just the best feeling!
2007-06-21 07:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's a matter of fearing or not fearing death. I think it's a matter of appreciating your life. Thinking of it as a special gift or experience, and not wanting to waste it.
2007-06-21 05:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by mxmarbur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think fear of death interferes with quality of life.Fear of Death is natural but to be obsessed with it is morbid.
2007-06-21 05:09:49 · answer #9 · answered by Padmini Gopalan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Most people will fear death because it is the unknown.
For all we know, we know nothing.
2007-06-21 05:05:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋