2007-09-13 10:32:22 · 12 answers · asked by Albinoballs 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's the ultimate unknown.
And it's permanent.
2007-09-13 10:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what everyone else thinks, but for me death and dying don't carry the same somber and morose connotations, it doesn't invoke fear for me as it does for a lot of people. Ever since I was very small, I was never bothered by it the way a lot of people are - I remember thinking when I went to my first funeral, why are all these people so fearful and sad? I mean, I have always known that death is really a beginning - and that God is real, we don't die permanently having lived our lives to just end as dust. I always knew there was more. And not from a book, either. I knew it in my heart. I mean I know we terribly miss our loved ones who die, and it could be a very long time before we see them again, and of course mourning and sorrow fill our hearts at these times. It hurts to see them go while we must learn to live on without them in our lives for a time. But even so, knowing that it is a temporary separation from them, then we can heal and move forward knowing some day we will be reunited.
As I've grown older, sometimes I see people really lose it when a loved one dies, and especially a child. Me too, but then I pull out of it and realize that they are safe in God's hands till we meet again.
2007-09-13 17:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because all we have fathomed is life. And we tend to view death as a continuation of life, when, really, it implies the opposite.
2007-09-13 17:37:53 · answer #3 · answered by James 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For millions of years humans had no concept of or symbol for 0/zero. The big nothingness is just so difficult to grasp.
Death = nothingness; thus it is a difficult concept to grasp. But as an atheist, I simply accept it.
2007-09-13 17:42:56 · answer #4 · answered by dlm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that when we fully understand life and death,and the mysterious , unfathomable workings of the mind and the cosmos, then mankind has it all figured out,except the finallity of it all. Who really gives a **** after all that hard brain work ,get stoned or whatever and forget it all.
2007-09-13 17:56:22 · answer #5 · answered by andrew j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is. Perhaps that's why I'm an Atheist.
Just look at it like this: think about yourself, who you were, what you were doing, thinking and feeling 10 years before you were born.
See, its not hard to fathom at all really is it?
2007-09-13 17:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not difficult it's easy you just need to die to fathom it though
2007-09-13 17:38:52 · answer #7 · answered by manapaformetta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One explanation would be that we were created perfect, therefore it is unnatural for humans to conceive of not existing. Heaven, Valhalla, Resurrection etc are proof of this.
2007-09-13 17:39:00 · answer #8 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure. We were dead for all that time before we were born. I know I'm having a good time, and I don't want it to end, but I certainly wouldn't want it to go on forever, either.
2007-09-13 17:38:00 · answer #9 · answered by That Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because no one knows for definite what really happens when you die.
2007-09-13 17:37:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋