What do you think would be the worst way to die? And would you go through it to get to heaven?

Question

Or would you back out because of fear.

Answer 1

There are lots of horrible ways to die.

How about flying a plane full of people into a building. I wouldn't do that to get to heaven, but others have.

Perhaps dying of some disease because my religion prohibits me getting a blood transfusion. That would be a lousy way to die, but if it got me to heaven, maybe it would be worth it. Other people have thought so. A 14 year old boy who thought so died a couple of weeks ago.

Maybe I coud be burned alive for refusing to renounce my god. Then I'd get in for sure, right? Other people have thought so...thousands of them.

No, I would not go through anything to get to heaven, because heaven doesn't exist. It has nothing to do with fear, it has to do with sanity. I don't do insane things in order to get to imaginary places.

Answer 2

Since impermanence has been such an underlying theme in our explorations, consider once again for a moment the fleetingness of life. Our bodies, are mere matter and energy we know of in the universe, arise and pass away. The worst way to die, would be sketched or embedded in your mind, and the more you think about dying in whichever way, your prone to end in various haze.
And with their passing fade and is left are the photographs, the home videos, the memories, the little triumphs and gestures, the stories we who are still here recall or tell ourselves silently about who someone was or wasn't; and about the missed moments too: what might have happened but didn't, what could have been but wasn't.
We organisms could be seen as merely a byproduct of their romping about in the world. Richard Dawkin's poignant term for this perspective is the "selfish" gene. Talk about emptyness.
We think were in charge, but our genes have a life of their own.
We die with each out-breath, only to be breathed back to life with the next in-breath. We have been dying from the beginning.
And so, if we are aware, fear, has no room in this mind. All we need to do is align ourselves with this perspective, we can continue growing into ourselves, into meaning, and fullness, building on what we already are, starting with where we already are, knowing that this is it. And in the larger perspective of wholeness, knowing that it never gets any better than this because all is always now. Recall those lines of Kabir:
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life
you will have the face of satisfied desire........

Answer 3

Well, I think there are many horrible ways to die. I am scared of all pain! Drowning, falling off a high place, torture, poison, attacked by wild animals...

As far as would I do it in order to get to heaven? Yes and no. Yes, I would endure death to get to heaven because that is the way most people get to heaven (all except Enoch, Elijah, and perhaps Moses). No if you mean I would have to die a certain death as an "entrance fee" for heaven. Jesus paid my entrance fee already, so there is no need!

Answer 4

The worst way to die is in agony and pain. I don't believe there is any heaven to get to. But I will be willing to suffer the worst way of dying for several reasons:

1) to save my family and friends, so that they may live.
2) to save mankind from themselves.

I do not fear death. I fear a wasted life.

Answer 5

The worst way to die would be to die with the absent-minded thought of going to an illusive place called heaven. Foreseeing the prevaricational aspects of a falsely created place called heaven is the most abstrusive thought to ever grace the thought of a man, and for humans to believe in something that lacks the smallest shred of evidence to support its existence, and then proceed to say that they know this phantasmal place exists and claim it to be fact, is inconceivably assanine.

Answer 6

I know someone who did die the worst way I can think of. His whole family turned their backs on him when he needed them the most because he was broke and he couldn't pay for anything that they wanted, so they pushed him aside and told him how they never really cared about him. He spent his remaining years in an SRO, never hearing from his kids, and with bill collectors always breathing down his neck. He didn't have insurance and when he was diagnosed with Cancer he turned to his family one more time for support. They blew him off saying good riddance, and he died alone in his little room from untreted Cancer. Everyone in his life that was supposed to matter to him didn't even care about him.

I would never want to die like that if it meant I could get into an eternal paradise. I love my family too much to want to trade up their love for a God whose morals and conduct I find questionable on a good day. I would rather have the flames and the love of those I cherish.

I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!

Answer 7

Suffocation. I read a story about a young woman who was martyred by being sealed up alive into a compartment in a brick wall. As a person who really hates confined spaces anyway, this sounded worse than the most painful forms of torture to me!!!

Would I do it rather than deny my Lord? I believe He would enable me to if it came down to that, but I certainly HOPE it never does!

Answer 8

Being hanged or strangled with steel wire is not a lot of fun. Takes at least a few minutes til you lose consciousness.

Hitler had some people killed this way, hung up on meat hooks and filmed for his viewing pleasure (circa 1944).

Answer 9

This sounds like a "what if I was left behind after the Rapture" question. To me, to be tortured (slowly disfigured) to death would be the worst way to die, & yes, I would endure it to be able to get into Heaven.

Answer 10

To be in pain, and to die without knowing Jesus. I struggle with doing the right thing for Him daily, and feel sorry for the posters on here that are so proud to call themselves atheists, as though it is something TO be proud of.....I would not want to die in pain, but God will take me however he wants, hopefully He'll have me...

Answer 11

Why bother thinking such fuzzy illogical thoughts that is because of fear?
The other way to look at it is ---- that you have already been more than a thousand deaths already, and what is one more? And there is no 'heaven' as such, but just the afterlife, or spirit world, which everyone goes to, whether they believe or not --- and so think about more positive thoughts, than be prey for religions, which encourage the fear of death, and of not going to heaven, etc etc.
But follow your heart and spirit towards that which is true in information - that of proper spiritual teachings, which are devoid of "preaching" and recruitment, ie. programming.
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