What is the eternal enemy of death?

Question

Thank you all philosophers for your answers. Have a great day!

Answer 1

Hi,
Eternal life seems to be the most appropriate answer but then again:
does death have to have an 'eternal enemy'. Enemy sounds so contentious and challenging. I prefer to think of eternal life or at least of life and creation as the opposite force, or opposing energies to death.
Pollyanna

Answer 2

I've seen people put down "eternal life" as the eternal enemy of death. But I think that Life is actually death's friend, they're always walking side by side anyway. You can't have life without death and you can't have death without life. Oh yeah sometimes best friends can be real enemies, but there are factors involved to make each other more 'friends' than 'enemies'.

An eternal enemy of death would be surviving a car accident lol, but to put it more specifically - life guards, near-death experiences, and doctors. It's like death is saying "DAM MIT!" to those things.

Answer 3

Glee.

Death is an ending, a transition from the use of energy for one set of purposes to another. We as humans tend to naturally abhor death, to regard it as something somber and obviously unpleasant. It is the darkness in the corners of the room, the wistfulness after the party ends, the garbage bag patrol after holiday presents all sit opened.

Glee beats death, though. I've seen it. Smiles can last after the final brain wave fades. Laughter keeps the room bright even when death tries to darken the room. A joke told before that final breath can leave warmth death can only delay, not dispell.

On my deathbed, I'll wear pigtails. If I'm bald, I'll wear the most visually offensive bandana I can get my hands on. If I'm in a car accident, I promise myself I'll tell the dirtiest joke I know to the paramedic before I kick the bucket. I will remain gleeful, even if it takes all the morphine in the world from the meanest nurse on the planet.

Answer 4

e·ter·nal (ĭ-tûr'nəl)
adj.
Being without beginning or end; existing outside of time. See synonyms at infinite.
Continuing without interruption; perpetual.
Forever true or changeless: eternal truths.
Seemingly endless; interminable. See synonyms at ageless, continual.
Of or relating to spiritual communion with God, especially in the afterlife.
n.
Something timeless, uninterrupted, or endless.
Eternal God. Used with the.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus.]

eternality e'ter·nal'i·ty (ē'tər-năl'ĭ-tē) or e·ter'nal·ness n.
eternally e·ter'nal·ly adv.

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The doubt for it, i.e. there is no death. A non-existent something has no personal consciousness, no social relations, no power to evoke passion nor hatred nor love and of there not may have not enemies it has not care for its self. The enemy for the fear of/for death is humility.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 5

Death is dispassionate; it declares no enemies. It is a part of all things, an equalizer, a universal destination. The challenge is to overcome fear.

And death is not our destruction--we endure. Our knowledge is passed on. Our wisdom stays in the world. Our loved ones carry the memory of our lives. Our legacy survives us.

If death is actually "the enemy", then we all are condemned to fall to our foe. Surely this can't be.

Answer 6

Death has no enemy. 1 Cor. 15:26 asserts, "The last enemy to be destroyed is death," which implies that Death has not been destroyed once and for all.

Answer 7

Eternal life

Answer 8

The eternal enemy of death is the acceptance of death as a part of life. If people side with acceptance of death, death loses all its power to sway people. Fear of death is death's tool, acceptance of one's own death is one's shield from death.

Answer 9

Life

Answer 10

the eternal enemy of death would be birth (or any other process that creates new life).