Do you feel as if death degrades the power of humans?

Question

When death plagues us we're like every other living species, and those underneath the foodchain feeds off of our decomposing bodies. With how superior human beings have come to be, with basically, well, "ruling the world", do you feel as if it's like.. all that work, hardship, emotion, battles, accomplishments, ..are for nothing?

Do you think that there's something greater for us, or that we're just like the ants hussling around to survive and gather food and reproduce so that another some million of its kind can keep doing the process?

I mean, like anyone else I feel sad when on the subject of death because it's something that's unknown. If being in death is just like, well, feeling, smelling, seeing, hearing, sensing nothing.. it kind of questions the purpose of life. And how far we've come... and how late it is to take back everything.

It's like, as if it's not enough.

Answer 1

I think knowing that we'll die makes us try harder. I don't know if there's any Grand Purpose for humans other than the one each of us gives his or her life. As I see it, each of us leaves this world in a spark of spirit that has hopefully become wiser and more loving during our stay here.

Answer 2

Well people usually feel sad when death is put upon us because people are gone. The things that someone loved about them, are now, never to be seen again. It just brings up so many things-that often, people don't want to bring up ever again. I am not sure what the purpose of life is. Some people say it is "Offspring" or some sort, but who really knows? You shouldn't want to take back anything. And if you do, you obviously don't want your life. Life is worth living it up, and if you want to take back something SO bad, then your life wasn't worth it. I could see if something HORRIBLE was wrong with you, institutionalized, prison-but everything you did, or whatever happened to you led up to that. I don't see why you want to take it back, when it was your fault it happened. Life isn't based on nothing. Everything that happens, you make it happen, and it is suppose to be fun, and worth living for. When you die, as experts and psychics say, the other side is great. I guess both sides are great. Might as well make the life you are living in now, with other people such as family-alive, and new family such as new borns, great. So you can live great, on the other side also.

Answer 3

Its not so much degrading as it is humbling. It does put us on the same level as the rest of nature..but we are not so different from them in the first place. Why should we be thought of as more important or better? Sure, we are a more advanced population, but does that make us superior to the other populations around us? I don't think so.

Also, I do think that there is something better for us after we die (heaven). I think people who are religious will agree, but atheists and i guess some agnostics would have to disagree..they believe that this is it and that death will be like before you were born. Hah, I joke around and say that the reason we're here is beause God was lonely. But, to me that seems like a very good reason why we're here. like..it kind of explains our existence.

Its totally normal to feel this way..

Answer 4

I do not. Humans have to die, just like every other creature. But what happens when we die? People mourn. Friends and family will miss us. We live on in the hearts and memories of others (I know it's kind of cheesey, but it's true.)

Besides that, our souls go to Heaven, so there is still more life after death! God has a purpose for everyone and everything.

Answer 5

This is a non-issue for me. Death is not an end, to me, it's a beginning. It's only the transition from this earthly life to eternal life with God.

Human beings are only superior to other forms of life because God made us so. That's humbling for me. We all belong to Him, even the lower forms of life. God just put us in charge of the ants, the rodents, the mammals, etc. for a while. In other words, I'm not the boss of, or superior to, anyone. I do what God put me here to do.

Makes life so much easier and more rewarding, knowing that I'm not in charge! Jesus died for you, too. Whether you choose to accept His gift of eternal life and love is up to you.

Answer 6

yeah it plagues us if you let it but why worry about something you cannot change.We are all going to die,so what ,tough **** ,but hopefully we've all got a bit of time left .which we should enjoy to the full, as you are a long time dead. you never know maybe the god squad have been right all along and there is an afterlife. won't that be a pleasant surprise standing at the gates of Heaven,albeit very briefly in my case I suspect. Still I'd rather reign in hell than slave in heaven

Answer 7

Death is part of life

It is part of the
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
http://buddhism.about.com/library/blbudmindfulness.htm

Mindfulness of Death and Bodily Decay
The focus of the last of the five Contemplation of the Body meditations is two-pronged. On the one hand it requires us to visualize corpses in various stages of putrefaction; on the other hand it asks us to reflect on the inevitability of death.

http://buddhism.about.com/cs/meditation/a/Corpse.htm

Answer 8

No. We can do a lot in our lives to better current and future generations, and love makes life quite enough.

Answer 9

i think death is like a piece of humble pie. it grounds me, knowing i'm not indestructible and that i need to appriciate every second. if there was no death, what would be the meaning of life?

Answer 10

no, death is the great equalizer...and the neverending peace.

Read Thanatopsis

By: William Cullen Bryant
...thats my favorite poem.