Death is the greatest gift life can bestow!

John 14:1-4: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going."
 
Murrmurr said:
So is Life. Life could be considered a bigger blessing because you can do more with it.

In an attempt to do something meaningful in death, I've donated my corpse to a medical university. And they accepted it! I got the letter of acceptance and thanks a few months ago. It's hanging on our fridge.
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Hahaha, hanging on the fridge, with all the other appointments to keep (and bills to pay). Somehow that mental image just cracks me up 😄
 
Well we are either going somewhere else maybe or nowhere else maybe but in either case it should remove the sting maybe??

and just for a moment consider our planet ; a planet of humans who have no death - it would become a terribly overcrowded and chaotic place to be?
 
Death is a blessing for some. There are people who have lived a good part of their lives in pain and anguish...some physical, some mental. There are those who are suffering with cancer or who have become totally paralyzed and hate not being able to do for themselves or others and hate being a financial burden on their families.

Some people choose to stick it out...to deal with those terrible predicaments. Though I am not a proponent of suicide, for those who can't deal with living an agonizing life, I can understand it and feel for them.

I've heard it said and there's even an R & B song that says we should rejoice when people die and cry when they are born. Of course we don't do it that way (unless the deceased was a real SOB) but there is the trend now to call funerals and/or memorial services celebrations of life.
 
davey said:
Well we are either going somewhere else maybe or nowhere else maybe but in either case it should remove the sting maybe??

and just for a moment consider our planet ; a planet of humans who have no death - it would become a terribly overcrowded and chaotic place to be?
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If people didn't die (except accidentally, let's say), then women would stop having babies at some point. Not voluntarily, but naturally; like at the point where we'd have severe food shortages...in which case, we'd start dying of starvation.

Or maybe we'd evolve to become fatally accident-prone. 😄

I'm kidding about that. But scientists observed (in a laboratory setting) that when they severely limited the amount of food for a large colony of rats - 100s, I think - the females had far fewer ratlets, or whatever baby rats are called. If the colony was fed 50% less, then they saw around 50% fewer births. Litters were smaller and farther between.

That experiment convinced some scientists that, if we had a global food shortage, the birth rate would plummet naturally.
 
Murrmurr said:
If people didn't die (except accidentally, let's say), then women would stop having babies at some point. Not voluntarily, but naturally; like at the point where we'd have severe food shortages...in which case, we'd start dying of starvation.

Or maybe we'd evolve to become fatally accident-prone. 😄

I'm kidding about that. But scientists observed (in a laboratory setting) that when they severely limited the amount of food for a large colony of rats - 100s, I think - the females had far fewer ratlets, or whatever baby rats are called. If the colony was fed 50% less, then they saw around 50% fewer births. Litters were smaller and farther between.

That experiment convinced some scientists that, if we had a global food shortage, the birth rate would plummet naturally.
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Why does that not seem to work for starving 3rd world countries?
 
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