Since "what's the meaning of life" is crowding philosophy section, now its time for a change.
2007-11-01 12:43:27 · 16 answers · asked by Sickxually Inactive 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, the most obvious is that nothing lasts forever. All things come to an end. We must die to make way for new Picassos, new Einsteins, new Platos...if we lived forever, (and the birthrate dropped dramatically) the same old ideas and views would circulate, and humanity would become stragnant, and likely even technology would'nt advance much.
Besides, Morticians have to make a living too (pun intended)!
2007-11-01 14:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by primalclaws1974 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When most people think of death, they focus entirely on bodily death. Perhaps that should be unsurprising in societies as materialistic as most of ours are. I believe, however, that there are other kinds of death - spiritual death, emotional death, deaths of nations and societies, and so on. These all have some things in common.
Death is most of all a readjustment. It is not just a loss of life... in fact, some deaths mark what could best be described as an explosion of new life. And there's a key word in there: new.
So death means an end of one thing, and all the parts of that thing are now consumed by other things or lost altogether. When a nation dies, its territory is usually taken up by hungry neighbors, or made into child-states. When a body dies, instead of fighting off and eating other life it become food instead. And when a personality dies, the memories remain but are usually revalued and re-interpreted by the new personality that takes its place.
People experience this kind of death more than they usually suspect. One of the times I died was when my ex left me. The person who had existed before was a very different one from the person who occupied my body afterward. A lot of people also experience a death and rebirth when they find religion... even to the extent of calling themselves 'born again'.
When the old is inactive, and those things that made it up are gone or taken by others, then that is death.
2007-11-01 20:02:46 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To Depart From Life, A One Way AirFare, Location Undisclosed
2007-11-01 22:59:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is the start of something new. It's the thing that regulates the natural order of the world. Nothing can avoid death.
2007-11-01 20:44:10 · answer #4 · answered by nanasethegoddess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is ever created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form into another. Therefore, death is a transformation
2007-11-02 03:13:12 · answer #5 · answered by L.J. Watcher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ecology is recycling itself
If you refer to the religious implications, the Christian viewpoint is that now you have returned to dust, to nothing -- in this state you await the last day and judgment.
Judgment determines if you are resurrected or not. Those not shall be asleep forever as having returned to nothing.
2007-11-01 20:49:07 · answer #6 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is life continuing without you.
2007-11-01 20:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by elguapo_marco_2008@sbcglobal.net 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Wittgenstein: It's not an event in life . . . death is the limit of life.
2007-11-01 20:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the price we all pay for living.
2007-11-01 20:18:59 · answer #9 · answered by phil8656 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is but a doorway to a new reality.
2007-11-02 01:59:26 · answer #10 · answered by aisha 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋