The Problem of Death

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Qoeleth said:
I suggest you read the first book of Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, which deals comprehensively with this question.

Either with death, all sensation stops, and then it is of no concern (or, in fact, a good thing, since it removes pain)

OR, the soul lives on. Now, the state in which the soul lives on without the body must be better than the curent state.

Whether one is atomist, Stoic, Platonist, sceptic or Epicurean, death can only be viewed as a good or indifferent thing.
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We all desire life, and so i find it dishonest to claim that death should not be a concern for the living simply on the basis that we won’t care any-more once we are dead.
 
ReapReason said:
We all desire life, and so i find it dishonest to claim that death should not be a concern for the living simply on the basis that we won’t care any-more once we are dead.
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Are you afraid of going to sleep at night? What if you were told that you would have to sleep in until 9am the next day? Or 11am, or 3pm, or for a week, or forever? Isn’t that what death is?

Either that, or it’s eternal peace and bliss.
 
ReapReason said:
We all desire life, and so i find it dishonest to claim that death should not be a concern for the living simply on the basis that we won’t care any-more once we are dead.
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It is precisely because we leave this body that we care - or should. Since our body’s individual cells have both aging and death programmed into their DNA, and since turning that signal off results in cancer, science is not the answer. That answer lies in the spiritual realm, rather than the physical.
 
This is the promise for those who believe:

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

If you believe in God, you will not perish at the end of your earthly life. You will have everlasting life.
 
ReapReason said:
One day, you are going to die.

How do you honestly feel about Death?

Is it reasonable for us to be afraid or degraded by the idea of Death?

Is it reasonable for us to attempt to remove the inevitability of Death from our lives (via science or religious belief in the after life)?

Or is it more reasonable to simply accept the idea that we are going to cease to exist?
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