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You’re assuming that death is a bad thing. Why is it a bad thing? It’s very sad of course for everyone left mourning, but what about the person who died. Is itactually bad for them?

fractal~scattered~ wrote:
You’re assuming that death is a bad thing. Why is it a bad thing? It’s very sad of course for everyone left mourning, but what about the person who died. Is itactually bad for them?

I guess this is all when it gets philosophical.

i completely get what you mean. i’m 23 and my parents are in their 70s. add to that, my dad is disabled too.

i always think about their mortality and i used to dread it. i dread it up until now but it doesn’t make me sad/depressed as it used to. because, im sure you know, DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE. so it’s only a matter of timing as to when you’ll go. and really, who wants to live forever right?:)

i’d say, just make sure you make the most out of your time with your elder parents as well as relatives and friends. yes, friends my age may statistically have more time to spend with their parents than mine and i’m happy for them. but at the same time, love knows no time. a very loving and fruitful time with your parents for 5 years is better than spending 20 years with them without much affection and concern.

hope you’ll feel better soon. :)

Well on a positive, you are not alone in asking this. It is one of the fundamental questions of philosophy and one that sentient beings have struggled with for eternity.

What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Why are we here? Why do we die? Is there life after death? If there is a God, why does God let bad things happen? What is an ethical way to live one’s life?

Attempts to answer these questions are at the root of all religion. The multitude of answers you will receive to them also explain the diversity of opinion among humans, as well as the range of religions we have constructed, and the conflict between them.

So on the negative, there is no easy or proper answer to this. We will all die. We do not know what, if anything, is beyond death. The best approach is to love those in your life, be just, forgiving and humble. There is great relief in accepting that we are all ignorant of the answers to these great questions and knowing that all we can do is simply just try to do well and act kindly and ethically to all.

In answer to your question, after Adam and Eve sinned human kind became fallen/corrupt, incapable of lasting perfection (perfect goodness). When this happened God instituted death. This was actually a mercy and a kindness when you consider the alternative, living forever with this fallen nature, like a vampire or one of the undead.

Death allows for a shedding of the fallen nature and a coming into a new incorruptible body and nature.

Maybe this god being - if it exists - is what I would call a ****.

God should consider himself lucky that he doesn’t exist because I’d kill him, the ol’ tyrant.
Uh but to stay on point, death is a part of life. Everyone deals with it. Most of my family are dead when I know my friends still have their grandparents alive and kicking. All mine are 6 feet under. So, you know. That’s just how it goes.

My mom died five years ago after living with a heart condition for most of her life. I miss miss her all the time, but I consider the stronger perspectives. I wouldn’t want her to live forever in the condition she was in and neither would she. Because I do believe in God and His Promises, I don’t grieve for my mom as some, without hope does. God has an appointed time when He will bring all that have died, back to life in a body not made of the materials we currently understand. I and many others speculate that this new existance is, at last, immortal to any form of dying or death as we know - it’s Biblically called the new and more glorious body. I believe it’s a form of radient energy. But more importantly, all who we love will be reunited.