Does death give life meaning?

Question

All opinions and thoughts are welcome.

I want to make a few points out to people:

Nic O: I understand what you're saying. Life and death works together to give meaning to a person's existence. My argument is that there's the whole balance in life, so if they were to both help give meaning, I would imagine that both give the same amount of meaning towards existence.

papeche: Lots of things in life are frustrating. However, if you were to ignore the frustrations in life, you will soon begin to forget them. If we forgot the inevitability of death, then we will get the notion that we literally have all the time in the world, meaning that we won't live life to the edge. That's how I see it. You can't ignore death or try to forget about it. You have to keep it as a reminder as you live through life.

DrEvol: I like what you mean about death being the greatest loss. What I disagree is that the fact animals don't seek for pleasure. Domestic ones do, being more pickier than the wild ones since they don't have a home

guru: So if death wasn't here, then life is all we have left. Meaningless or not, we wouldn't know until death comes by to realize if we had meaning in our lives as time passes by. It's an opinion, but I think we shouldn't waste our time wondering about our own meanings in life and what we should do, regardless of the satisfaction we would receive if we did discover our meanings. But I mean, if death doesn't come by, then we can spend life thinking if death could have give us more meaning to life.

outbaksean: Knowing that I'm a virgin, thank you for pointing out the fact that I have not contributed to the cycle of life.

Blue Crayon: That was a good one, and you do know.

Answer 1

Death helps give life meaning. Since each person has a finite time in which to live, each person must choose how to live within that time frame. The choices vary, of course; some choose to pursue pleasure while pleasure is available, while others may seek meaning in what they deem to be higher pursuits - seeking knowledge, spirituality, procreation to extend bloodlines and create legacies, etc. I also think the inevitability of death is what leads people to seek meaning, in either their lives or the lives of others who have passed. If no one ever died, much of the philosophical debate over why we are here would be muted; if something just is, with no apparent beginning or end, the need to make sense of it feels less urgent.

However, I don't think death is necessary to give life meaning. If a person acts in a particular way, it has a meaning to those affected. Whether it is teaching a child to read or kicking a child's puppy, a child will attach significance to the event, without necessarily doing so because of the finite nature of that child's existence. The actor would also attribute some meaning to it. If we were to hypothesize a perpetual life, I do not think the individual acts in it would lose their meaning.

Answer 2

Yes because it tells you that you don't have forever. No matter how long you live, there is a limit. So death reminds us that while we are living, we have to make the best use of life. For some people, death is just passing from this world to another world and there is no such a thing as a real death. Many of us think of death as the end and there is nothing after that. Actually, I believe that death is not the end. It is a situation for us to look back and see what we have done. Imagine living for all these years and everything is completely wipe out in a split second. It's not fair. Going through all the hard times and easy times means that there must be something nicer after death.

Answer 3

Life gives death meaning

Answer 4

Give Meaning

Answer 5

Life gives life meaning! The meaning of life is to enjoy the times that you have because you know that someday you will die and not have those moments. So in a way, death works with life to give it meaning. But life is more of the meaning. Do you get what I'm saying? It's kind of confusing.

Answer 6

Death itself is the meaning of life. It is inevitable for every life-forms on earth. You have been dying since the moment you were born. You cannot predict what would happen to you in the future, it is full of possibilities. The only thing that is certain is that you will die at the end, no matter what had happened on your journey to death. As long as there is life, there is death. Life means death!

Answer 7

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A very important question!! I believe that if there is to be no death (no end), then we would not value time and if we can't value time, we can't value anything else because now or never would disappear from our horizon of understanding. Everything would be on forever which implies that its being on would lose any significance and life would also meet the same fate. An end defines any event...... similarly death defines life!!

Answer 8

If Life is a Value, Death is the Greatest Loss

If you take charge of your life, you give life meaning. Death takes life away, including its meaning. Death is the loss of all values. If we value life, death is not a plus -- it's a minus.

Humans have worked hard at making life meaningful. They used the only tool they have to do so: their rational faculty. Rationality is pro-life. The lack of it, irrationality, is what leads us faster to death.

It is in the nature of being human to have a conceptual brain. This is what distinguishes us evolutionarily from the animals. It is our specialization for our own survival, compliments of the law discovered by Darwin called Natural Selection.

Thanks to our brains, we are not like the animals who are satisfied to eat the same foods, to depend on the same environment, to stay the same throughout their life. We are permanently DISSATISFIED with our life -- and that is GOOD! We would have never come out of the caves if our brains didn't see a way to make a better living! Better doesn't mean paradise. It means better.

And that is precisely what our rational faculty does for us. It makes us wish to improve our life and in doing so, we give meaning to us and our life

Answer 9

Does life have meaning without death? ~~~ No. They both define each other, just like all such 'thoughts'; 'good/bad/evil, tall/short, whatever... They are a matter of Perspective, and; "For every Perspective, there is an equal and opposite Perspective!" - The First Law of Soul Dynamics Is it true that without death, all we have are just random events? Accumulation? something you can't call life? ~~~ No. Without 'thoughts' (of whatever; 'life', 'death', 'beauty', 'ugly', 'sane', 'insane'...) what is, remains that which is perceived, Knowledge/Reality. The flower exists, by your perceiving it, whether or not you perceive 'thoughts' about it or not.

Answer 10

I think so, without death there is no life, imagine living forever you'd kind of get bored after awhile. Death gives meaning to life you try your hardest to live a good life, reach your goals and live out your dreams and die a happy person. If you were to live forever you wouldn't have to work as hard to reach your dreams you could take your time. it wouldn't be the same!!!