Why do we live just to die?

Question

Life is pointless

Answer 1

Yes, we will all die eventually, but we still have the option to make our lives as meaningful and enjoyable as possible while we have them. It's better than giving up and dying.

Answer 2

I don't just live to die. Honestly, you are given at least 75 YEARS of life to improve the world, yourself, and the people around you. If everyone just lived to die, everyone would be dead.

There are different types of death. First, there is emotional death. This is what you are experiencing right now. You see the world as a place of departure, when really it is a place of expression, improvment, happiness, sharing, and most of all love. If those qualities are not met, you cannot reach your full potential in life. If life were meant to await death, it would not be called life, it would be called death row.

In Ask.com Dictionary (see source below)'s entry for "life," one definition is: the physical, mental, and spiritual experiences that constitute existence. Without a positive mental and spiritual existence, you are dead.

I like to think of life as a game of Monopoly, a classic board game which combines luck with strategy. This is basically what life is, luck and strategy. You cannot always choose your circumstance (e.g. your income, your family, your status, your health, etc.), however, you can choose your response to it, just like in Monopoly where you cannot choose what propery you will own but you can choose how you can get it. Even in the face of poverty, the player with the best strategy will win the game, just like in life, in the face of adversity, the most positive and proactive person will overcome the undeserving lucky person.

And lastly, you have no idea how good you have it. In the spring of 2006, I travelled to Ethiopia in Africa on a mission trip, and you don't truly know how unfortunate and poverty-strucken their society is until you witness it firsthand. Some people over there are forced to care for themselves by performing back-breaking (literally) labor for the American equivalent of 12 cents per day. Some don't get paid at all. Some are so poor that they are not able to take care of their own children and are forced to send them to an orphanage or out on the street by themself, where are others like them band together and look out for each other. And the youngest known on the street are boys as young as FIVE (5) YEARS OLD!!!!!! Some are luckier like our hired driver who had a wife and 2 kids and drove vans for American visitors for a living making the equivalent of $5/day whereas Americans can make more than that in an hour.

So next time, you think you have nothing remember it could be much worse and you can fix that with an amount of willpower, determination, and vision. Life is not pointless. If it were, it wouldn't exist. Good luck.

Answer 3

I, for one, do not have my death in mind as my purpose. Yes, I will die, but in the meantime I have other things to do. The fact that I exist at all is incredible.

"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting." -- Bertrand Russell

I don't need anyone, or anything, to sanction my existence. I don't need anything else to justify it. I'm alive. I'm confused at times, yes. Life can be that way. But I always think of something. Think of the things you won't think of if you think of life as pointless....

Answer 4

Life's value is subjective, if you think it is pointless then yours probably feels that way.

although I still can't help but remember the impoverished guy i met in India who had no legs and was starving. As I passed him on the street, he looked up at me and had the biggest-most genuine smile that I have ever seen, and he wasn't begging.

What the heck has he figured out that I have not?

~Toll Booth Willy

Answer 5

Then why did you post this question? and...


Why are you checking to see the answers now?


The meaning of life is to live. Enjoy your stay because it ends eventually so stop wondering too much and do something. Trust me there are things out there for you even if you need a little therapy first. :)

Don't be so ungrateful of your existence.

Answer 6

life is fascinating! it is amazing! look at all that intricacy! all that magic!. Butterfly wings! Spider webs!. That is why we live, to marvel at the function of our brain and the eye it is astounding!

You asked a question? What energy it takes for the body to produce sound! Why even dying is profound. and special and full of hope and possibilities.

Why? ...because we must not miss anything!

Answer 7

I don't know about you, but when I am alive, I am not simply awaiting death. To state that we live to die, means we look forward to it and think about it continually. Sorry but I live to have fun, to make things better, and to leave a mark upon the world, not just to die.

Answer 8

We don't live just to die. We go through many experiences during our time on Earth. Dying is just another experience just like our births were an experience (if not to you than to you mother and father).

Answer 9

Life would be even more meaningless if we lived forever. So, this life may be pointless, but atleast it's only temporary.

Answer 10

To make a Meaningful value judgment, one must first be completely FREE of all depressive human tendencies and sentiments. … Paradoxically enough, humanity has the incurable proclivity of introducing polemic issues into an already challenging equation of life at the most emotionally vulnerable moments! … I wish you happiness.