Death

[Whiterain]

Our visions of Death are different... Death means different things to many people. For some it is eternal bliss, for others it is judgement.

What are your visions for Death?

I envision Death because I had an experience with him, him...

Death knocked on my car window and there was no one there.... Only the bony tap of a passer by.

I wasn't upon Death only laying in my automobile, fasted and starving in the winter cold.... I was travelling....

Frost seized the windows and the winter cold was upon me, I was freezing to death.. Yet no one was there.
I almost froze to death, I was in my automobile that had a dead battery.


I do not know this stranger.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Before I was born. There I will go.

Death is the coming and going of life.

 

[Whiterain]

Orange Juice is best drank with a clean mouth some say.


That's to simple, you have nothing else?

 

[LuisDantas]

Death is the ultimate rest and the ultimate forgiver, IMO. Nothing more or less.

 

[RedDragon94]

Death is really a reward after a long life of work. If you never work then death is more like a punishment because you have nothing to look back on as accomplishment or service. I know this isn't necessarily the standard Christian answer, I'm just talking. If you never worked for anybody how do you know you loved anybody. Love requires service and sacrifice.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Orange Juice is best drank with a clean mouth some say.


That's to simple, you have nothing else?

Nope. Because that's all there is.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Nice question. Death doesn't exist in my dictionary. It's just a word I'm conditioned to hear and put in my mental Rolodex to make sense of why my loved ones aren't here anymore and family issues and so on. It's a word that stings my ears every time I hear a Christian tell me about the wonderful world of the after life. One JW said to me (my friend) "Don't you want to live forever! Death is from the devil." Type of thing.

I just see death as another stage of life. I am an animist and I believe our spirits exist and are present on earth--from experience and witness. So, I guess death (as in completely don't exist) isn't in my train of thought. If it were, I'd be a little better at ease because it will clear up all this spirit-confusion and just let me focus on what the Buddha wants us to focus on, Life. He says He does not die (His Wisdom) but will go on without extension. It's the same with the rest of us. That's why families want to keep their name within the next generation. Death doesn't seem to be reality until we are near it. When I had my surgery, I thought I might die. I didn't think about it as so much as thinking about the surgery itself. It was something I cannot help.

I think death is another word for the unknown. We just don't know. We can make edgumacated guesses from things we study and people 2,000 years ago who made their guesses as well.

Other than that, death is a part of life. It's not separate. I like how Woody Allen puts it, "it's not that I'm afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Our visions of Death are different... Death means different things to many people. For some it is eternal bliss, for others it is judgement.

What are your visions for Death?

I envision Death because I had an experience with him, him...

Death knocked on my car window and there was no one there.... Only the bony tap of a passer by.

I wasn't upon Death only laying in my automobile, fasted and starving in the winter cold.... I was travelling....

Frost seized the windows and the winter cold was upon me, I was freezing to death.. Yet no one was there.
I almost froze to death, I was in my automobile that had a dead battery.


I do not know this stranger.

 

[Tumah]

Death is waking up after a short but really deep sleep.

 

[George-ananda]

I guess there is no death; just a dropping of the physical outer-coat. And what freedom that brings.

 

[Aquitaine]

We've experienced death for as many years as the Universe has existed, minus our individual age.
Death seems to be the "default setting" in the Universe, where as life appears to be this bizarre chaotic anomaly.

Death isn't the problem, it's the process of dying that's the problem - generally it's a traumatic "membrane" one has to be squashed through in order to die.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I guess there is no death; just a dropping of the physical outer-coat. And what freedom that brings.

Death remains simultaneous alongside life.

There is no set distinction other than the contrast that it brings to the forefront of our minds. Parts of your being dies away just as much as it's being born, to which life itself falls around us as much as it rises. Its only a state of mind of which rises and falls by which things are precieved actually.

We don't really have a set experience or perspective of life or death. At least by any permanent sense.

No life. No death. It does sound familiar. Now where did I hear that before? ;0]

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

Our visions of Death are different... Death means different things to many people. For some it is eternal bliss, for others it is judgement.

What are your visions for Death?

I envision Death because I had an experience with him, him...

Death knocked on my car window and there was no one there.... Only the bony tap of a passer by.

I wasn't upon Death only laying in my automobile, fasted and starving in the winter cold.... I was travelling....

Frost seized the windows and the winter cold was upon me, I was freezing to death.. Yet no one was there.
I almost froze to death, I was in my automobile that had a dead battery.


I do not know this stranger.

21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. (Philippians 1)

 

[Breathe]

I believe it is going Home.

 

[Quintessence]

Death is not different from birth; there is only transformation. Destruction is required for creation; creation requires destruction. One could say two sides of the same coin, but they are not even on two sides; they're indistinguishable from one another, except by point of view of an observer.

 

[Jainarayan]

I have mixed views of death, or rather, variations on a theme in each of the religions I followed:

• As a Christian: eternity in the blissful presence of God, maintaining the duality. Lots of "Hosanna!"s, angels and "Holy, holy holy"s being thrown about.

• As a Hindu: rebirth countless times until such time I either merged with Brahman, or spend eternity in the blissful presence of God (Vishnu/Krishna), maintaining the duality, with "honey bees, and apple trees, and snow white turtledoves".

• Ásatrú: possible rebirth, up to the individual to be reborn or not, or eternity in Hel leading a drab eternal existence with others, or preferably at Thor's place (Bilskirnir in Thrudheim), eating, drinking and having a good ol' boy good ol' time with Good Ol' Rough-and-Tumble Redbeard.

 

[Whiterain]

It's hard to imagine a personified being that can grant and take life at his or her will, per se.

Death has no name.

But I can't help but imagine he's Odin or Loki but the entity/ being goes back into various myths, particularly Cronus is one I think of, The Father of Zeus.

Then there's the Morrigan of celt myth, a female deity that controlled life and death and immortality.

It's just so ridiculous to think there are beings that powerful.. but I can believe it.

I'm in his debt but not awaiting some final destination horror story, I was counting on a motorcycle accident.

What most monotheist do not seem to include are the former pantheons, I have no idea why the Church pushed them out. There were pantheons before the old gods involving the giants, Titans and Jotuns then the various Gods overthrew them, maybe even pantheons before them that were succeeded by the Titans.

I don't know what the truth is though. I can't say I approve of the Churches work handling the transition to monotheism, it's horribly cruel.

The cruelty is insatiable one you learn some history.

 

[JayJayDee]

From the Bible's perspective, (rather than church teaching), death is simply the opposite of life.
There is no consciousness, no planning or activity in the grave. The good and the wicked all go to the one place. (Sheol/hades) erroneously translated "hell" when the Bible has no mention of such a place. (Eccl 9:5, 10)
Sheol or hades is simply the grave. There is no immortal part of man that separates from the body at death. This is a pagan Greek notion, not a Bible teaching at all.

The hope for the dead is resurrection.....that is bodily resurrection back to life on earth under the rule of God's kingdom. (John 5:28, 29) Jesus will call all the dead, both "righteous and unrighteous" from the same place of unconscious inactivity. Only the wicked will stay in death's grip forever.

 

[SpeaksForTheTrees]

My guess on death is a place where nothing matters, no aches,pains, disorders, needs unneeded needs, no worries no liabilities,no nothing.
Sounds like a real cool peaceful place similar to pre birth or sleep without dreams, are times when you sleep there is the no nothing i try describe, as death.
Not that i intend ever going the a day early guess kinda makes me a sadistic narcasist by definition when you get down to the nitty gritty of what life really is consistant with a theory 99+% of us have some form of cycological disorder.

 

[Awoon]

"Death" means to be some place else.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Death seems to be the "default setting" in the Universe, where as life appears to be this bizarre chaotic anomaly.

Without birth, death would not be there; though both are illusions. With death, what constitutes me will become part of a billion things. I was that even before my birth.