Inspired by "Death As a Friend" by Kathe Kollwitz.
2007-10-23 21:54:49 · 13 answers · asked by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I haven't read the book. Should I?
I know I am going to die, Jack. Death is like an old friend that we will all meet one day. There is cold comfort in the inevitability of it.
Edit: To have a sense of hopelessness isn't death. It's despair.
2007-10-24 00:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Death IS a friend. OK, before you all start freaking out on me, let me explain.
As a Wiccan, I am here to learn a lesson from this lifetime. I will not have completed that learning process until my death. So, looking at it like that, Death, my friend, is bearing my Graduation Diploma and will be welcomed with open arms by me. I will have learned fully, my lesson of this lifteime and will be ready to take a little rest, visit friends and relatives in Summerland, decide my NEXT lifetime lesson, make all the plans for acheiveing that lesson's objectives, obtaining the background necessary for that experince, and then, finding a suitable place and time to be re-born.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-10-24 21:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It most certainly can jack, sadly I speak from what I know. I have seen many suffer and when death came it was a welcome friend indeed. I held one in my arms who kept saying please let me die please, it broke my heart but as death finally game I could see the pain go, relief wash over their face as the life slowly left their body. sounds morbid yes I know but it is the truth. When you are close to someone and are by their sides even till death and you know how that person suffered and was tormented, death becomes a gift to them, they no longer fear it but welcome it. Death was a welcome gift to several in my family who suffered daily with their losing battles against cancer. I tell you it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life, to stand by helplessly and watch them suffer, to try to comfort them before death and to watch them die so that they would not be alone when leaving this world. I wouldn't suggest most people do this as it really affects you as a person, this side of me is very dark and morbid, it has changed me and in all honesty it haunts me but at the same time I know it was relief for them and in the end that was all that mattered.
Death is my enemy right now because he has taken my love ones away but who knows in the end I may be welcoming him as my friend too.
2007-10-24 08:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by fire and ice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is a part of the book of life, not an end but a new chapter.
2007-10-24 05:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death has no need for guise or disguise. He plays to a packed house every night...and no one goes home singing.
2007-10-24 05:07:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, you...well...
Psalms 146: 3 - 6
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Do not put YOUR trust in nobles, Nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs.
His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish.
Happy is the one who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in Jehovah his God, The Maker of heaven and earth, Of the sea, and of all that is in them, The One keeping trueness to time indefinite..
This means when a man dies, regardless if he is an athee or Christian, or anyone else, they go back to their ground hence they came from. Their spirit or life force goes out, back to its maker, and their thoughts do perish. They return to dust, conscious of nothing when they die. They are "dead souls". At Armageddon, ALL will be judged; both the righteous and unrighteous.
Both friends and enemies die daily. Thanks.
2007-10-24 05:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
IF YOU WERE REALLY SUFFERING I BELIEVE GOD WOULD SEND DECEASED LOVED ONES TO YOU TO HELP YOU CROSS OVER. SO IN THAT RESPECT YES. BUT IN THE RESPECT THAT I THINK YOU MEAN, NO. EVEN THOUGH MOST OF US HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED DEATH, THERE IS ENOUGH INFORMATION ABOUT IT TO MAKE A VERY EDUCATED SUMMATION. CHECK OUT NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES ON THE INTERNET. IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU.
2007-10-24 05:06:46 · answer #7 · answered by joe m 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Quite the opposite, methinks... it really is a friend, but it comes in the guise of a curse.
2007-10-24 04:58:37 · answer #8 · answered by SDW 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think so. Death is the absence of hope.
2007-10-24 06:40:41 · answer #9 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death can be both friend and enemy.
To someone who is suffering, death can be the most welcome friend ever.
To his family, it can be the most feared enemy.
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2007-10-24 05:11:15 · answer #10 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋