and where do we go when we die?
2007-11-27 07:17:20 · 34 answers · asked by Ryan T 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If there were no death the world would overpopulate very quickly. Death is part of the life cycle. I don't think anyone can answer where we go after death with any certainty. People have their faiths, and beliefs on where we go, but no one knows for sure.
2007-11-27 07:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Vbonics 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If there were no death in the sense that our bodies persisted in perfect physical and mental health, we would gradually have new experiences and forget old memories until we were completely different people with no recall of our distant past. This would mean we would still be mortal in the sense of not being the same people forever, but to some extent we are like that anyway.
I am assuming there is no birth either, of course.
When we die, our consciousness dissolves into its constituent parts and becomes parts of other consciousnesses. Our identity does not survive but our consciousness does.
2007-11-27 08:07:05 · answer #2 · answered by grayure 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until the final transubstantiation in which we merge with another universe or dimension of a higher vibration equal to the vibration we've (souls not flesh) evolved to in this world over the course of many incarnations we continue to incarnate (reincarnation) again and again. Not as any sort of punishment but to allow the soul to evolve to ITS adulthood, so to speak. This goes on forever to higher and ever higher planes of greater vibration (other dimensions) in which existence continually grows more and more sweeter or rather known as "perfection."
No death? If we lived in these "flesh-pots of Egypt" (physical bodies) for all eternity, I can say that we would be dealing with an indescribable weariness of the soul which is unlike weariness of the body -- like no other even imaginable. I've been at it for nearly 80 thousand years and am more than ready to move on after this incarnation, and I am extremely weary -- was even at 15. There are many individuals in the world today who are very weary due to having lived many incarnations. That's why human beings make so many &^%$-ups as they do. there are just so many tired souls here and now.
2007-11-27 07:43:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was no death we would have to take contraception very, very seriously. We would no longer be able to have children as the normal circle of someone gets born and someone dies no longer exists. Also I think that once we die we do not go anywhere, but stay alive in the thoughts of people that were close to us.
2007-11-28 22:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by Bibsy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be no urgency to life, people would not want to get things done. It would be terrible! If there is no death for human beings, what would happen to the bodies of them too? would they simply keep gettin older and older without dying? The prospect of billions and billions of shrivelled old people on earth is one that is not very inviting...
2007-11-27 10:35:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect our government would come up with some clever way to help rectify the overcrowding issue. They would probably create some system of determining who was worthy and not worthy. Then they would send all the unworthy into space without a suit to float around for all of eternity.
Wow, that would make a great story... though it sounds kind of familiar...
2007-11-27 10:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by Trina™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be a lot of cranky old people around, and they would never go away! We would never learn from our mistakes, and we would never learn how to value the life we have and time we are given to live it, and the people we encounter and learn from, both good and bad. It would really not be cool. Where do we go when we die? No one has ever come back to tell us.
2007-11-27 13:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there were no death more humans would be born and the world would be overpopulated. And if there were no such thing as death, then why would we go somewhere when we die?
2007-11-27 07:47:31 · answer #8 · answered by Dark Silence 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Then the world would be overpopulated. No death means that there wouldn't be hunger cuz people DIE from hunger everyday. So we wouldn't have the need for food... Our soul carries on wen we die.
2007-11-27 07:21:42 · answer #9 · answered by jmiller 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We'd still look for ways to destroy one another regardless of weather death existed or not. Unfortunate, but true. So far as the 2nd question goes...we go back to the earth breakdown into minerals and feed plants...so we become plant food when we die (true even if cremated). PEACE!
2007-11-27 07:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋