Who laughs in the face of death?

Answer 1

One who has understood that only this physical body dies and not the essence by which it has been made may laugh at the face of death .Al hillaj a sufi saint was going to be killed by the fanatics he said looking at the sky ''You cannot decieve me even now you have come as death'' and he was killed .One baba of the himalayas was just passing and a kingcobra appeared before him and about to bite him He laughed and said ''At last you have come''.

Answer 2

What is death except an inevitable part of impermanent Life.

Is it at ending, a beginning or a doorway. Many consider death the end and yet they also consider it a doorway to Heaven.

As a Buddhist, death is only part of the story, an ending to this Life, Karma and the Unconscious Life Stream interacting then either Rebirth here, Rebirth elsewhere or Nibbana depending on my Clinging Consciousness. If it clings to Life then there will be a Rebirth, if there is Ignorance then there will be a Rebirth, if there is none of these then there will be Peace, Nibbana.

I do not face death, I face Life. There is no reason to laugh or cry at Life, there is only struggle, Dukkha...in my life there is really only persistence and effort, as a Buddhist there is only these to consider...in Pali Viriyena dukkhamacceti: Persistence and Effort..

Death is something which will happen no matter how much we struggle against it, by living Life with Mindful purpose and effort, fear becomes irrelevent.

A Buddhist perspective...

Answer 3

Hmm..ok One Love that sounds like a riddle or a trick question. What are you up to now? Are you talking Grim Reaper skull-face death, Gabriel, Angel of Death, or a tiger-eating-your-leg-off death. No. Knowing you, you're talking Baptized-in-a-moment-of-grace type transformation AKA the 'death experience'. I know I laughed afterward in retrospect at the divine comedy of it all and my own reactions to it, but I think I was too awestruck at the time of the experience to laugh during the experience, although Bluebootz's answer strikes a chord with me. There may have been nervous laughter.


-----Here's an interesting excerpt:
“… death itself is the delivery – a deliverer – of your species and all others. It is not negative in itself, but instead is the beginning of a different kind of positive existence. It prunes the planet, so to speak, so that there is a room and time for all, energy and food for all. Because of death, life is possible, so these two seemingly opposite qualities are simply different versions of the same phenomena.

“If death disappeared on your planet [for] even an hour all of life would soon be threatened. And if all life possible suddenly emerged at once, then most surely all would be annihilated. We must admit, then, that death is indeed a part of life – and even more, we must say that death is healthy.” ~ The Way Toward Health, March 13, 1984.

Answer 4

I have laughed after facing what seemed to be death, but not in the face of death as finality (or I wouldn't be writing this). I laughed when I watched my car being totalled by a drunk driver when I just "happened" to not be in it at the time. I laughed as I lay strapped to a backboard after an accident I later learned had made the evening news as an accident so bad no one was expected to come out of it alive (* I did!*) I have dreams of laughing as mean people attack me and I, like the last samurai, run laughing into battle, because it is a joy to let go of attachment and simply use the arts of raw battle. I dream of this, and one day I will face death for the last time. I hope to be laughing.

Answer 5

The one who laughs in the face of death is one who knows what waits on the other side.

Answer 6

One who laughs at everything
Even the pain and agony
Will laugh in the face of his death

Answer 7

I actually did. Grinning painful death was rushing at me full speed and I think I must have cracked a bit because I started laughing uncontrollably. I had the shakes for two days after it was all over.

Remember: No one really fears death itself. Everyone fears the pain that comes before death. Death is just an unending period of not being. Same as it was before you were born.

Answer 8

No one laughs in the face of death. All try to be philosophical when writing on this platform but when they face reality I ve seen even the preachers broken when their own die. This is a hard fact whether anyone admits or not admits.

Answer 9

One who conquers death even before death arrives, laughs in the face of its arrival.

Answer 10

I know that people...(myself included).....do the stupidest things....like laughing at a funeral.

It's so uncomfortable, and such a strange thing. It's like your brain is telling you to "stop laughing".....Nothing funny goes on at a funeral.

And yet....somehow we can't stop laughing and have to leave the funeral in a horrific display of nervousness.

Of course....everyone knows that the person laughing was merely unable to express their true feelings...and somehow nervous laughter took over.

I've also laughed when I'm in a dangerous situation....which further aggravated the person antagonizing me....which got me in more trouble....and nothing good came of that!

Anyways.....no, no....I don't and haven't laughed in the face of my own death.