I mean with organ transplants, cloning of organs, taking 20+ pills a day just to stay alive... why?
2007-08-31 03:06:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Many people believe in an after life, many don't. Either way, once your body dies your life on earth is over. You won't see your loved ones any more. You won't eat pizza on a lazy Friday night ever again. Never smell the ocean. Never take a bubble bath. Never kiss your man passionately.
Even if some people find comfort in an afterlife, the fact that our corporeal selves die and so do the lives we lead on this planet is scary and sad.
If I were diagnosed w/ something that would cause a prolonged, torturous death (like ALS/Lou Geherig's - my grandfather died from it) I might very well end my own life before I became paralyzed and unable to care for myself, breathe w/o a machine or eat food. I would feel like a prisoner and would probably be somewhat angry. I'd want to go have a blast and then fade into a never-waking sleep before it got bad.
My boyfriend, on the other hand, said he'd rather live out his last days contemplating life as far as his brain would let him...he finds joy in simply being alive and being able to think (he's the smart type :-) ) Two totally different reactions to impending death.
Morbid conversation - but since my grandfather died from it it's something that I've thought about. So, I wouldn't want to extend my life if my quality of life was limited to a bed and barely conscious.
2007-08-31 03:11:57 · answer #1 · answered by G_Elisabeth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two reasons. Popular culture celebrates youth and as a person ages they become less valuable. Secondly during the time of the first world war death was occurring so frequently and was no longer at a natural rate as it once had been. Technology had taken over and so many young people were being killed it was impossible to process and grieve properly. This was the time that death was delegated as a abnormal and tragic incident and people stopped talking about it. People who were dying were being sent to hospitals and other places out of the say to die. Death became invisible and euphemisms such as passed, sleeping, gone home were being used.
People should accept death as much as they accept life, because without one the other is impossible.
2007-08-31 03:16:08 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because what comes after (which may perfectly well be nothingness) is the total end of the world as we know it. Our instinct makes us be afraid, anyway, which is a good way nature has found to make us stay alive, the main purpose of any living creature - stay alive and reproduce.
2007-08-31 03:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some possible answers:
1) People either doubt or don't believe in the afterlife and don't want their existence to end.
2) People that do believe in the afterlife are afraid of going to hell.
3) People don't want to leave the luxuries of this world.
4) People don't want to leave their loved ones.
2007-08-31 03:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by XB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's because no one knows what happens to us after death. No one has come back to tell the story! So it boils down to a fear of the unknown. Even the people who believe that they will go to heaven or be reincarnated are still afraid, because they don't truly know if their theories about death are correct.
2007-08-31 03:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by cherriebomb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More is always very tempting and "it's never enough until your heart stops beating" as the band (New Order)said: but seriously trying to avoid death is a real pain. Just keep it on the level and maybe you will die when you should.
Quality above quantity (within reason) is better, methinks
2007-08-31 03:28:37 · answer #6 · answered by Teal R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may be afraid of death because no one really knows for certain what happens after you die. The big question is if there's an afterlife or if you're just worm food. I think as people get older, they get less afraid of death...you know it's coming and that it's unavoidable, so you just accept it. As for me, I'm not really afraid of death itself, so much as dying prematurely.
2007-08-31 03:16:42 · answer #7 · answered by GK Dub 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because life is better than eternal unconsciousness. But this is not true of everybody; i wouldn't want intractable pain.
i don't believe in an afterlife.
2007-08-31 03:14:22 · answer #8 · answered by robert2020 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thinks it's instinct of all highly evolved animals to self-preserve themselves by whatever means,including as humans too.
2007-08-31 03:41:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An old "MAD" magazine said,
"Death is Nature's way of recycling people!"
Somehow, that is a very comforting thought, to me!
2007-08-31 05:09:46 · answer #10 · answered by skaizun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋