Is Death a Bad Event or a Good Event?

Mitch86

Mitch86

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One question which affects every person is death and whether if it is a good or bad event? In my opinion it depends on whether we are young or old and whether we are healthy or very sick. Death occurs in EVERY human life at some point. If we are young and healthy, then death is a tragedy. However, if one is old and / or very sick, then death ends our suffering.
 

I sat here trying to come up with an answer to your question. I think it would have to be considered on a case by case basis. I feel neutral about my own death. I don't want to die right now but it would not be a great tragedy either. I have had an adventurous life and I certainly would not feel like my life had been cut too short.
 
Sometimes I feel like death would be better than living everyday with the pain level I feel. Almost everyday I feel close to wishing the lights to be turned off, BUT hanging on and waiting as patient as possible, and giving the exercise and medication/s to work is always worth it. Now, sometimes it is very hard, but most of the time I know I will feel better in a few hours, so it is becoming more routine. I do worry a bit about it being progressive. I will face that when/if it happens. We never know what's ahead...but it has always been that way. :)
 

How we see death varies according to the circumstances.

My husband died earlier this year and it was a kindness to him.
His older brother died many years ago from bowel cancer at the young age of 44. His death was tragic for his family but resulted in a new foundation being established dedicated to promoting screening tests for younger people. From tragedy good can emerge.
Sacrificial death is heroic, even saintly, but slaughter of the innocent is monstrous, whether in a war or a classroom.

In a way I look forward to my own demise. I am old but well and I have every reason to go on living but I know that one day I will cease to be. In whatever form death comes to me, like my mother before me, I will be ready and willing.
 
I don’t know about people but the death of a beloved dog has always stuck with me.
Kind of like having to take the good with the bad. If we never had the good then we would never experience the bad or sadness of death.
I can see where the saying comes from.
You have to take the bad with the good.
I suppose it matters how you die.
I think an easy and quick death would be a blessing.
I’m not that bad off yet but death is something that I have given thought to because of my age.
I have came to the conclusion that we don’t have a lot of say about it at least if we let it happen naturally.
You can’t predict your death and say I will die in two years except if you have an incurable disease and that is what the doctors tell you.
I really don’t want to know in advance and not knowing might be a blessing too.
My wife and I decided that the quicker we have procedures done the less we have to worry about them and I said something once about what if and she said “ well if I don’t come out of a procedure at least I won’t know about it.”
 
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I am blessed that my neurological disorder essential tremor (full body) does not cause me much physical pain, however the disabling effects E T has on every facet of daily activities can weaken one's resolve to battle on. One reason I've facetiously considered, as to why illnesses afflict us mostly as we grow old, is to help us happily, and in relief, accept our demise. No? :-D
 
Elsie said:
I am blessed that my neurological disorder essential tremor (full body) does not cause me much physical pain, however the disabling effects E T has on every facet of daily activities can weaken one's resolve to battle on. One reason I've facetiously considered, as to why illnesses afflict us mostly as we grow old, is to help us happily, and in relief, accept our demise. No? :-D
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I think that there is a lot of truth to that!
 
Mr. Ed said:
Don't know about you, but I can't wait to die. looking so forward to my demise.
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If you are waiting, death will not come. I know two men, the composer Jean Sibelius from Finland and the writer Julien Green (of American descent, but born in Paris). Both of them thought that they'd die young. Sibelius died at almost 92 years, Green at almost 98 years.
 
Nobody really wants to live forever, but nobody wants to die either. James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine:

Somebody that I knew back in my youth was what you might describe as a hardline atheist. Yet he was just about the most virtuous person you could meet. Others had noticed too how good and kind he was. It was his reply that always stuck in my mind when he was asked: Why are you such a good Christian when you don't believe in God. He replied: "Got to hedge my bets, I might wrong." I still laugh when thinking of him.

Death is a fear of the unknown. I would like to think that all those in the world who have suffered at the hand of racialist, prejudice bigots are in a far better place, some sort of Heavenly inheritance.
 
It's a one time event. The how where & when except for legal euthanasia or suicide it's a mystery. Accepting that death is inevitable so spending time fearing it is useless. Good or bad depends on each individual.
 
Death is arguably the worst reality of loving mortal intelligent organic entities.

Have posted in similar threads before, that I am one that greatly wants to exist forever. Those answering the question usually do so from the perspective of their own current fragile, sometimes painful, weary, limited life. If people that enjoy their lives could magically exist so in their prime, many would choose otherwise.

However it is true, there are significant numbers of those that struggled their whole adult lives below Maslov's Pyramid level 5 that have not enjoyed much of their lives and those that have lived on the dark side morally and ethically that may feel life sucks and be glad when it is over.

I am very very much the opposite though am aware as a mortal organic being, growing old and limited is certain. However, although am not one that believes in dominant religious magical narratives, have a hope for a non-biological existence in eternity that I choose to hope is physically possible given my knowledge of neuroscience and physics, and for which there is but one path.

John 6:38:
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
 
George1959 said:
If you are waiting, death will not come. I know two men, the composer Jean Sibelius from Finland and the writer Julien Green (of American descent, but born in Paris). Both of them thought that they'd die young. Sibelius died at almost 92 years, Green at almost 98 years.
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life and death is another example of the perfect world we live in. People assume a perfect world means no pain, sorrow or death when actually these are part of the human experience. We would not be human if we did not experience these things.
I say the world is perfect the way it is.
 
Some of these answers make me think of infirmity and how we accept it or not.
I think that it was the antibiotic that the doctor prescribed that made me hyper so I got up early in the morning and with nothing else to do I started washing pots and pans.
Even as hyper, as I was, I started getting tired of standing at the sink so I sat down with pots that needed hard scrubbing.
I sat on a chair that my wife uses in the kitchen because she has a hard time standing very long.
Afterwards I thought how much easier that made a tedious job.
How much less work it was sitting there than it was standing.
 
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