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In your opinion, what is death?

Is it the end, like a dreamless sleep? Is it some kind of transition? Does it threaten either penalty or paradise?

Posted - March 13, 2017

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  • 508
    Do you remember what it was like long before you existed? well.. i think it will be just like that.. This post was edited by Skunky Stinkerson at March 15, 2017 5:30 AM MDT
      March 13, 2017 1:05 AM MDT
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  • That's unarguable. I think you're right, Skunky. 
      March 13, 2017 3:37 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Or, as philosophy suggests, before you existed as you the human you are, you existed as a possible being in the mind of God.

    (Did I just slip into perissology?)

     
      March 13, 2017 1:03 PM MDT
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  • You've been reading too many of Virginia's answer. Perissology! :D 
      March 13, 2017 1:20 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Death is end of life. No brain and/or heart activity is used as criteria, as far as I am aware. I do not believe in anything after life on Earth. We will live in the memories of those still being alive, and that will be about it. 
      March 13, 2017 4:16 AM MDT
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  • I've often thought the same thing. Some people live on in racial memory long after their death; most of us will be forgotten as the people who knew us also pass on. 
      March 13, 2017 12:22 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Mhmm. Why it's even more important making most out of it while here. Enjoy and live the best we can. :-)
      March 13, 2017 3:23 PM MDT
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  • Perfect! 
      March 13, 2017 3:58 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Yus.
      March 13, 2017 4:14 PM MDT
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  • Probably get some flak for this but I believe that you begin again after you're released from your current life. We can live a thousand lifetimes and not really know it. Yes, I believe in a type of reincarnation.
      March 13, 2017 7:25 AM MDT
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  • Well no flak so far, Rooster, and none from me. I've met a couple of people -- private individuals, not public speakers with a point to make -- who told of experiences that were pretty convincing in the realm of reincarnation. We meet tens of thousands of people in a lifetime and of all of them these two stand out like jewels.
      March 13, 2017 12:25 PM MDT
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  • 739
    I agree with sapphic! I just don't think there is anything at all after death.
      March 13, 2017 8:34 AM MDT
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  • Rotting?
      March 13, 2017 9:55 AM MDT
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  • Speak for yourself, Whistle. I'm gonna burn. :)
      March 13, 2017 12:27 PM MDT
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  • You're going to the gym?
      March 13, 2017 1:45 PM MDT
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  • Logically I agree with you. I don't see how there could be. Yet experience tells me that there mayu well be something.
      March 13, 2017 12:26 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    It is an illusion.
    Most people identify with the body
    and so they think there is death.
    We are not the body...
    ...Consciousness is continual and without interruption,
    as we leave one body and move into another one.
      March 13, 2017 8:37 AM MDT
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  • Outstanding!
      March 13, 2017 8:41 AM MDT
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  • Thanks, Baba. Your answer reminds me of a verse I heard long ago and liked enough to memorise it: 

    We see but dimly through the mists and vapours
    Amid these earthy damps. 
    What seem to us, but sad funeral tapers
    May be Heav'ns distant lamps.
    There is no death, what seems so is transition;
    This life of mortal breath
    Is but a suburb of the life Elysian
    Whose portal men call death. 
    --Longfellow
      March 13, 2017 12:31 PM MDT
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  • That is so lovely, Dozy...actually gives me even greater respect for Longfellow, because it rather sounds like he is writing from personal experience.
      March 13, 2017 12:40 PM MDT
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  • Makes you wonder about the nature of inspiration, doesn't it? 
      March 13, 2017 12:45 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    very nice
    Longfellow is a good Fellow!
      March 13, 2017 6:17 PM MDT
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  • Personal annihilation.
      March 13, 2017 8:53 AM MDT
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  • That's the most likely expectation, Whislte, but not necessarily the only one.
      March 13, 2017 12:33 PM MDT
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