Bearing for some the full wrath of three score years and ten upon his vulture-y shoulders, if birds have shoulders. Now this is a very serious question: is DEATH merely a human construct? Why ot why not? Friends, contacts and countrymen, lend me your keyboards.
2007-12-31 17:37:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As my Jewish nana used to say" "dogs don't know from death." Only humans do. So a dog could not construct such a theory, but that does not mean that animals lack spirits!
2007-12-31 17:49:02 · update #1
New Year's Day is just another number on the calender. Life is what you make it.
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2008-01-01 10:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Jack ® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death, as evidenced by the many answers before mine, is NOT a human construct. However, its meaning and the concept of what may or may not come afterwards ARE human constructs as compared to the rest of all we see, but NOT compared to eternity. Trees, dogs, parameciums (parameceii?) -- all these have no concept of an afterlife or lack thereof. We do. We also have the ability to comprehend eternity, whether or not we think we will experience it or not. Thusly, the construct that matters is what we believe comes next, and to Christians, even that is not a construct. Having clouded the issue further, I will retire to my little corner of Y!A, awaiting more intelligence from your direction.
Have a great night!
2008-01-01 23:53:24 · answer #2 · answered by herfinator 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death just is, but it does take humans to make such a big deal of it.
2008-01-01 02:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by p_isfor_pecker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If two dogs are very close and one dies , the other will stay there for a day or so untill it sees no further sign of life . So I do believe that dogs comprehend the end of life . Dogs also understand impending pain and levels of pain . But I do not think they comprehend impending death .
2008-01-01 01:54:07 · answer #4 · answered by allure45connie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, a vulture? You're in a cheery mood ;-)
Anyway... It seems to me that things die - at least from my perspective. I don't think it's anything I or my society created or constructed; I would think if that were true, then we could take it apart too, and that doesn't seem to be possible. What happens from the die-ee's perspective, I don't have a clue :-)
Happy New Year - maybe next your you'll feel more skylark-ish ;-)
2008-01-01 01:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by crazeecatlady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"...is DEATH merely a human construct?" We are probably the only ones that have an understanding that a person dies and will not come back to life. Animals and plants have no such awarness. Though some animals are aware that a mate is gone, I do not see that as being in the same thought as we have; they know that mate is no longer around, but they don't understand why.
2008-01-01 01:48:35 · answer #6 · answered by John H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have never likened the approaching new year to a swooping vulture, but anyway, death is the result of living.
2008-01-01 01:46:01 · answer #7 · answered by No Shortage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
2008-01-01 01:44:09 · answer #8 · answered by GREGORIOUSITY 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Death is a curtain closing on this act of our eternal stage production.
2008-01-01 01:43:08 · answer #9 · answered by nikola333 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals and plants die so no it is not merely a human construct.
2008-01-01 01:42:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋