What is the point of life? if were going to die anyways?

Question

This has been a question that has haunted me years and years answer please in detail person who tells me the best answer will get a best answer!:)

Answer 1

I have thought about this as well...but the only answer is to not think about this or worry about it. What's the point? All you can do as a person is live a moral life and to leave your imprint in the world - by having children. Raise them right, and your DNA will stay on this world for as long as humans are around. Just don't have more than 2 kids, and tell them not to have more than 2 themselves, or you'll just be contributing to the overpopulation problem...

Answer 2

The first thing I see is that you are very intelligent. So, I am not going to make light of your question, but I’m guessing that there must be something precipitating this emotion. Maybe a break up with a girlfriend or boyfriend, parents getting a divorce, some stress about entering college or moving to a higher grade in school, I don’t know. It is your life so you will have to look at whatever has changed recently and try to put whatever it is back into perspective. Imagine for a moment that you are taking physics in college. You know that when the semester ends there will be a final exam. Death is kinda like the final, final exam! Now there are two ways you can approach this: One, you can stress out about the final all semester long then cram the night before and hope you pass. Two, you can study your notes everyday and make sure you understand each topic as it is presented so that the final will be a breeze for you. Which method makes more sense to you? The sooner you learn how to adapt to your surroundings the quicker life seems to make sense and figuring life out is the secret to its meaning. Whether or not death of our physical body is the end of us doesn’t make your life any less important. Your actions are what give your life meaning. I’m a nurse on a cancer ward and my job improves the quality of people’s lives. Some people see what I do as extending suffering while others see it as giving hope. If you spent a day visiting with my patients they would quickly convince you of how valuable every moment of life is and how important it is to make each moment matter! All knowledge and wisdom begins with the question “why.” Ask your mind and listen with your heart.

Answer 3

From the way you phrased the question it begs another question...is the purpose of life to live forever? if not then whether we die or not has no relevancy to figuring out the point of life. So now that simply living is not the "point" then I believe the question is on the way to being answered.

Viktor Frankl a Jewish psychologist who was a prisoner in the Nazi's concentration camps wrote numerous books on the topic the most famous one is "Man's Search for Meaning". He said "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him". He developed a theory, with three main ideas 1) life has meaning even under the worst imaginable circumstances; 2) our core drive as humans is our search for meaning; and 3) that we all have the freedom to discover what has meaning for us.

You've asked a big question, one that, I have to agree with Frankl, has a different answer for each person (and by the way I think the answer changes as you do).

Answer 4

let says average life is 70 years x 365 = 25550 days

25550 days, what u gonna do? 1/3 goes to sleep
1/3 goes to work

thats left 8516 days.. Life is short!.we just passed to see the world, so enjoy your life what is available in this world.. the point is go through it each and every possible experience you can get while u are alive like the rest of the same species as you.

Maybe you can make a different in this world before you die? at least there is something u feel worthy...hehe..

Answer 5

That's is a really good question, on which i can give many answers. You see these people working long hours for good money but I know many people who work as lawyers or many other office jobs and so many of them don't enjoy there job. Ive said why do it and they say, good money. We all die, why not enjoy yourself first, do something you love. If you like office jobs that's good but so many people don't. Do art or something you enjoy, it doesn't matter if your not well off, do you want to die knowing you did something for so long that you hated but you could leave. The last regrets of many a person.

Answer 6

Think about it this way: What if you lived forever?
You could probably do everything you ever wanted because you would have eternity to master it. So the result being that you've done everything possible to be done, what was the point of that? Just repeat it again?
Now back to reality. You don't have forever to do everything you want to do. So now you have a choice of everything possible, but a finite amount of time to accomplish these things. So the point now becomes, what is the most important thing for you to accomplish before you die? What gives you the most satisfaction? What do you want to happen?
Death (not life) gives life its meaning.

Answer 7

to tell u the unist to gods truth i have thought about that as while i have question my belives and every thing but i do belive in god my only problem is if when we die what really happens do we just sleep like we do at night or do we just fall in to a unconsciousness and really not realize it or we are not there any more but I'm not sure why we are hear i always thought i was the only one that thought that i figured i was on the Verge of being depressed .

Answer 8

well...life is like a ladder death is a stage of the ladder..compare to a story it is the ending and all of us is bound to have our own ending...the point of life is it gives us the chance to define the kind of ending we want to have (not literary the kind of death but how people will remember our ending...how you live your life) LIFE gives us chances, it makes us experienced change, teach us to know right to wrong... bottom line it made our existence special/ meaningful because at the end of the day God will take back the barrow ed life we have and the only way is thru death ;-) so we need to make most out of our life.

i hope this answer question

Answer 9

The point is to make as big of a mark on the world in as short a time as possible.

Answer 10

We are here for the pleasure of God. His purpose in the beginning was to be friends with us. Sin separated us, but God still wants to walk with us and talk with us. You must remember that death is not the end. It is just the beginning, its your choice where you spend eternity. God gives us a choice whether or not we want to spend it with him. Our time on earth is where we decide what we will do with this knowledge. Its all in the Bible. That is God's Word to us. I hope this helps. There is so much more, but for the sake of time I will leave it at that.