In your opinion, what is death?

That's unarguable. I think you're right, Skunky. 

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?)

 

You've been reading too many of Virginia's answer. Perissology! :D 

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. 

Mhmm. Why it's even more important making most out of it while here. Enjoy and live the best we can. :-)

Perfect! 

Yus.

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.

Rotting?

Speak for yourself, Whistle. I'm gonna burn. :)

You're going to the gym?

Logically I agree with you. I don't see how there could be. Yet experience tells me that there mayu well be something.

Outstanding!

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. 

That is so lovely, Dozy...actually gives me even greater respect for Longfellow, because it rather sounds like he is writing from personal experience.

Makes you wonder about the nature of inspiration, doesn't it? 

very nice
Longfellow is a good Fellow!

That's the most likely expectation, Whislte, but not necessarily the only one.