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2007-10-16 02:21:48 · 13 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i think you hit the nail on the head..we fear the unknown and cause our own internal suffering by dwelling on it rather than living in the present.
i think organized religion has caused us to fear death. whereas a honestly spiritual person welcomes the new beginnings of our journey 'after life' as we know it.
2007-10-16 02:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Death belongs to the natural codes of life; do you fear of living? Of course not; so death is a part of your life too. But if your life is in a mess you should fear of death and thought of it should make you suffering.
In philosophical context - are you sure that people life in the world belonging to death or to the 'true' life?
Descartes believes that having doubts about the realistic life is not a possible 'thing'. IT'S FALSE
"The phenomena of life can be compared to a dream, a ghost, an air bubble, a shadow, glittering dew, and the flash of lightning – and must be contemplated as such."
Buddha
c. 563-483 BCE , Indian Prince, Mystic, Founder of Buddhism
2007-10-16 16:07:12 · answer #2 · answered by jbaudlet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi Third P.
That is an interesting, albeit difficult question.
One should not fear death, as it is a normal part of the cycle of life. We are simply entering into another stage of existence. I am aware that some people do not believe in an afterlife, but I do. So, that is why I see death as another stage of existence. I do not fear it.
However, many do fear death, even those who believe in an afterlife. That, I believe, is because death is a journey that we each must make on our own. No one can come with us. So, because of that solo trip into the unknown, many are terrified by it. That fear is suffering.
The thought of death does terrify many. There is the fear of pain, of how we will die and many more things that cause of suffering just by the thought of suffering.
Death, itself, may cause many people to suffer. There are many who die in terrible pain or in other ways that are truly terrible. Even if the deaths themselves are relatively easy, many people suffer from the fears they have. So, death, itself, does cause a lot of suffering for those who die, maybe more than the thought of death did when they were healthy persons.
Also, death, itself, causes suffering to more than just the person who dies. All the people who love the person who dies will suffer greatly, too. They start grieving long before the person actually dies, in the case of illness. In the case of sudden death, i.e., a car accident, the loved ones do not start grieving until they receive the news of the person's death. But they will grieve.
Death causes suffering to many people, not just the person who dies. One person's death may affect countless numbers of people, depending upon how many others knew that person & will miss him/her.
Therefore, I would have to say that death, itself, causes far more suffering than does the thought of death. Death, itself, reaches out and touches many more people, causing them great pain and loss.
2007-10-16 20:22:11 · answer #3 · answered by palemalefriend 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The thought of death is caused by the existence of the the concept of death. In this way death is the root cause of all the pain that comes from the thought of death as well as other pain that does not originate from the thought of death.
Death is when one ceases to exist. Once one is dead there is no pain. The pain precedes death and therefore cause and effect logically demonstrates that the pain is not caused by death. Pain that precedes death may very well be caused by the thing that is causing the death of the individual but not by death itself. Proper treatment of the thing causing death should eliminate the pain. but that is off topic. The point I am trying to make in this paragraph is that since death causes no pain that the thought of death must cause more pain than the event itself.
It all comes down to the definition of terms.
2007-10-16 09:43:59 · answer #4 · answered by anonimous 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The many human thoughts of fearing death are each infinitely higher than the actual event of physical death. At death there is no active human mind to think about anything, and the time of death to re-personalization up on the next higher Heaven is perceived as instantaneous. Thus religion, philosophy and science should all work in unison to continue to remove all fears of physical death.
"The hero dies but once; the coward dies a thousand deaths."
Jesus tells us to "Fear not ! Be of good cheer ! Rejoice in having eternal Life in God's Light !"
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2007-10-16 10:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no suffering , why always we think about death in a very negative way ,Life is just phase and death is the next stage .we come to live without knowing anything about it Thus death is also .we have to deal with the death as positive way like it is the only thing - till now - which shared by all human beings if we think about it that way maybe we can stop wars and reach to Unite humanity.
we can think about death in negative or positive way, we have the choose
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2007-10-16 09:45:33 · answer #6 · answered by Muhammad Khalifa. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Roughly half is thought, half is real, but empirical evidence supports death or being as dead as a painless condition. There are notions of infinity that have the negative determinant of fear, a form with no end. There is more than one choice of the possibilities of empty terror and empty faith, and faith is certainly to be taken positively here.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-10-16 21:22:02 · answer #7 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the suffering comes from the thought of death because when you are actually dead you do not suffer. I think this was part of the point of Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych."
2007-10-16 09:32:21 · answer #8 · answered by Richie Paine 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What you fear is not death itself, rather fear of suffering that drives you crazy. Fear of the unknown that drives every man in his life. There is only suffering before death, there is non after you die.
2007-10-16 11:30:18 · answer #9 · answered by Faust 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Death is so inevitable and prevalent that the mind allows it to be peaceful.
Where fear is generated is in the event of an execution
2007-10-16 11:15:44 · answer #10 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋