what are your veiws on death? and where do they come from?

Question

religion? what you were taught at home?

Answer 1

I believe people simply decompose... that is what living things do.

Answer 2

I was taught the day you were given a date of birth...you were given a date of death. I never paid any attention to death until my dad, a healthy 45 year old, just collapsed one morning. I truly feel that the day that God intended for you to part with this Earth you will.

It's still a scary feeling to know that one day you will not be here, but unfortunately that is a part of life.

Answer 3

I did not come from a religious family. My mother was Catholic and so were was her siblings and mother but none the us children were raised Catholic. Never asked why! My thoughts of death come from what I have read. Now that I am older I sometimes think this is all there is. But when I think of all the marvelous wonders of the human body I have thoughts that contradict that thought. This is something we will just have to wait and see.

Answer 4

Death is a horrible thing, something I hope mankind will eventually conquer. Death is what occurs when your body can no longer function. I am an Atheist. As a child I was taught we float out of our bodies and go to Heaven if we were good Christians.

Answer 5

To my eternal gratitude I was blessed with parents who did not believe it was right to indoctrinate a child into beliefs that could never be verified or in any way proven, but were merely passed on to THEM by their own parents/family/religious afilliation/community.

My parents told me, We don't know, and the people who indoctrinated us into the "family religion" didn't know either. It just gets passed on. Get out into the world when you become an adult, observe, consider, think, study, learn, and finally conclude for YOURSELF." That was the valuable teaching I got from my parents. They opened the cage door, and unlocked the chain that binds most children within that cage of "family conditioning". They set my brain free and told me that it was OK to soar and find its own determination.

Having gotten into the academic field that included the biology of living matter, I know only that it is the process of all living cells that they are formed, they last awhile, they die, and disintegrate back into the molecular and atomic components from which they originally came.

Man, from the very beginnings of his ability to be "self-aware" and able to contemplate his own existence, and his own mortal end, has not been at all comfortable with the notion that at some point....POOOOFF you're gone. Man has therefore spent the whole of his very existence right up to the present time, devising methods of self-comfort;..... ways to make himself reassured that, in fact, at the point of death he wont simply "go pop" but that his "essence", his personal consciousness.... his "soul" for those who like that word.... somehow perpetuates into a new dimension of disembodied existence where he will still know who he was, still remember his life history, and (through whatever religious indoctrination he received during his life) will receive rewards of eternal bliss, or the agony of eternal punishment, based on whether or not he has been faithful to that particular indoctrinated religious belief system.

I chose not to have children, so I never had to deal with the issue of what to tell them, but if I had, I would have done what my parents did, and told them what my parents told me...... YOU decide, because I do not know, and neither does anybody else on this planet 'KNOW' because if they did know, we would all have heard about that solid proof a long time ago, and there would not be a zillion different, conflicting belief systems, only one. That isn't the case, and I don't expect it to ever be ... certainly not in MY lifetime. When my time here is up, I will either discover what really happens, or I will know absolutely nothing at all because I will have "just gone pop".

Answer 6

i view it as something that has to come soon and can at any second so i try to embrace life. i certainly didn't get this from religion, i would say kind of from my mom who just says hey there's only one life live it to the best of your ability and help others do the same. but also from my own permanent belief that there ARE things worse than death and let's say i was enslaved or something for the rest of my life, my belief is that one should just let themselves die at that point. i mean, there's not much reason to live. plus, you're not giving up, you're freeing your soul.

Answer 7

Death is the dead end of Life + Death.
It's notably the "sting" of sin: 1Cor 15:56,
of which Law is notably the "strength" of.
So Law is the "strong man" to bind,
in order to spoil the hse of sin & death.
Law is notably the ministration of death.
So Death is the dead end of Grace + Law.
Also of Saved + Destroyed After: Jude 5.

The GRACE(ONLY) of our Lord JC with you all. Amen.

Answer 8

My views are if you are righteous you go to Paradise after death. If you are unrighteous you go to Hades. After judgment the righteous go to heaven and the unrighteous to hell. These have always been my views but were supported by my degree in Biblical studies.

Answer 9

i think its stupid 2 be sad when somebody dies.
i mean yea sads ok....but not like totaly losing it and having depression and stuff.
if were taught that people go 2 heaven then y be sad?
we will c them again eventually...right?

Answer 10

we are dying the second we are born, but it is not all lost because one life can change the course of the future and thats what really matters my friends.

Answer 11

people kill people even worse than animals id rather be an animal instead of being a killer cause an animal kills to live but a criminal kills for money gold rich life or j ust deseases