2007-07-17 07:44:26 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Having to live through something terrible while being unable to die.
Examples:
-Watching a loved one suffer and eventually die due to an illness like cancer.
-Looking after a parent with alzeihmers (i cant spell it sorry). You love them but they don't even know you.
-Being paralysed but still alive and the same you. So you have become dependant on others for everything.
I'm going to stop there, its getting a bit depressing.
2007-07-17 07:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
To live forever.
To see the gap between the haves and have nots get wider and being on the have nots sides in the great scheme of things.. To see plant and animal species wiped out. To see an ever more polluted and crowded world. To outlive my soul mate and my daughter. To see it all having been around for long enough to know that humans on the whole don't learn from history.
That would be a lot worse fate than death ...
2007-07-17 12:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death in and of itsself is simply the physical process of your body no longer being able to support life. We would all like to think that the process of death is quick and eternal.
A fate worse than death would be to die a thousand deaths, or to "live" eternally in a state of torture. Therefore, a fate worse than death could be a slow and painful death as opposed to a quick one. If hell exists, then spending an eternity in hell could be a fate worse than death (then going to heaven).
On the other hand, a fate worse than death could also be eternal life. Imagine living forever and seeing all of your family and friends die. Imagine having to live forever, in loneliness, forced to roam the earth with this curse. Would that not be a fate worse than death?
2007-07-17 07:57:26 · answer #3 · answered by Heart of Fire 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well wouldn't you rather have an end to all the anger etc than have to live with the guilt at something you've done or sadness over something that happened. It would be a quick way out to die, some people would even call it the easy way out because it leaves everyone else to sort things out and take over your worries.
Think about all the people that commit suicide, they are stuck and death is an easy way to free yourself. If those people were prevented from dying then it would be terrible for them because what they want is to die, not to live with all their problems
2007-07-17 07:50:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just an expression when something bad is going to happen, it SEEMS like a fate worse than death. They always say it in the movies. Lol.
2007-07-17 07:53:15 · answer #5 · answered by Alexandria 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Child Birth
2007-07-17 08:29:32 · answer #6 · answered by BabyGirl~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Winning a life times executive box entry pass to a top flight Premiership football ground and finding out its for Birmingham City.
2007-07-17 11:33:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suffering for an extremely long time is worse than death.
2007-07-17 07:55:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. To be manipulated by a psychiatrist, confined to an institution where you no longer own your life and are drugged and put into a sedative state so you have no feelings for anything.
2. To lose your self respect or your integrity. Once you've lost that, you lost everything.
2007-07-17 20:15:49 · answer #9 · answered by Mishu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, anything prolonged and overwhelmingly negative.
I believe death in neutral. It's essentially falling alseep without dreaming for eternity. There is no pain, and it happens to everyone. Death isn't really a horrific thing, it's just a part of life.
2007-07-17 07:48:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋