Regardless of race, religion, geographical area, or time period, every human has wondered about the one fact of life that unifies us all: What is death?
Throughout history, different mythologies and theologies have explained the nature of death in countless ways, ranging from total annihilation to immediate life after death in the presence of God … or in torment. Some groups allow their dead to “work off” their badness and eventually reach paradise. Others envision life after death filled with a never-ending abundance of the pleasures of earthly life. Some teach that the dead are rewarded by becoming gods unto themselves, while others teach earthly reincarnation based on the deeds of the previous life.
Regardless of a person’s particular belief system, however, the fact remains that death is the end of life … or at least life as we know it. Death, dying, and the afterlife are all shrouded in deep mystery, cloaked in darkness and generally surrounded by fear and apprehension. The very idea of death strikes fear into many people’s hearts.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Human beings are totally powerless to prevent or overcome death. Our mightiest efforts to defend ourselves from the grave ultimately end in failure. Everyone dies. We can be thankful, however, that not everyone is as powerless over death as we are!
It is logical to assume that the source of all life would also hold the keys to death. Additionally, that source would explain the whole thing to us so we can take advantage of the solution to death if we so choose. We hope that when you understand the nature of death, you’ll see the beauty and logic of the plan to overcome it.
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Ali Ibn Abi Talib described death as one of three things that he responds to: either the gospel of the eternal bliss, or the gospel of the torment of eternity. Lina, the obedient to us, is the preacher of eternal bliss. But our enemy, who is contrary to our command, preaches the torment of eternity. As for the mumboh who does not know what is the case, he is the believer who is overbearing for himself, he does not know what is going to happen, the news comes to him with a vague fear, then God will not distract him with our enemies, and he will bring him out of the fire with our intercession. Then know, and eat, and do not trust, and do not underestimate the punishment of God, for those who commit adultery will not be affected by our intercession until after the torment of three hundred thousand years. "
Hassan bin Ali (peace be upon him) was asked: What is the death that they did not know? Peace be upon him said: "The greatest pleasure is given to the believers as they have been transferred from the house of sorrow to the eternal bliss, and the greatest of reproach is given to the disbelievers, as they were moved from their paradise to a fire that does not perish."
And when it became more difficult for Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon them) to look at him who was with him, then if he is different from them, because if they become too strong, their colors will change, and their instincts will tremble. And Hussein was peace be upon him and some of his qualities brighten their colors, and calm their bodies, and inhabit their souls. They said to one another, Look at him, he does not care about death. He said to them, peace and blessings be upon him, "The patience of the honorable sons, what death is but a Qantara that expresses the misery and harm to the wide and lasting grace. You hate to move from prison to palace, and these are your enemies as if you are moving from palace to prison. The Messenger of Allah: The world imprisoned the believer and the paradise of the unbeliever, and death Bridge these to their genes, and bridge them to hell, what I lied and did not lie.
Ali bin al-Hussein was told: What death? He said to him, peace be upon him: "For the believer, like the clothes of a dirty woman, and the lifting of heavy chains and shackles, and the substitution of the finest clothes, and the best of them, smells,
It was said to Muhammad ibn Ali peace be upon him: What death? He said: "It is the sleep that comes to you every night, but it is long-term not notice it only on the Day of Resurrection, some of them saw in the sleep of the classes of joy, which can not be limited, and some of them saw in his sleep types of horrors can not limit, From joy in death and glory in it! This is death, so be prepared for him. "
It was said to the peace be upon him: Describe our death? And he said to the believers, "As for the best of the wind, let him sleep, and let him forget for his goodness, and he shall be cut off from all weariness and pain."
It was said: Some people say it is more than the publication of saws, and loan Balmqrnd, and threw stones, and rotate the pole of life in the herd? He said: "It is also on some of the disbelievers and the infidels, do not you see them who see those adversities, that is more severe than this [except the torment of the Hereafter] more than the torment of the earth."
It is said: What we see infidels easy to be extinguished and extinguished, and he speaks and laughs and speaks, and in the believers who is also so, and in the believers and disbelievers who suffer when the death throats these adversities? (Peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There is no rest there for the believers, because it is urgent to reward them, To return the Hereafter and has nothing but what is required by the torment, and the severity of the infidel there is the beginning of the punishment of God when he ran out of benefits, that God is justice is not permissible.
Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury.[1] Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
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"Islamic view of death
Death in Islam is the termination of worldly life and the beginning of afterlife. Death is seen as the separation of the soul from the body, and its transfer from this world to the afterlife. Thus, it is the continuation of life in another form. Death is seen as a painful experience in Islam.
Islamic tradition discusses elaborately, almost in graphic detail, as to what exactly happens before, during, and after the death. The angel of death (Arabic: Malak al-Maut). The sinners' souls are extracted in a most painful way while the righteous are treated easily. After the burial, two angels – Munkar and Nakir – come to question the dead in order to test their faith. The righteous believers answer correctly and live in peace and comfort while the sinners and disbelievers fail and punishments ensue. The time period or stage between death and resurrection is called the life of barzakh. Suicide, Euthanasia, and unjust murder as means of death are all prohibited in Islam and are considered major sins. "....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_view_of_death
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"Death and Islam
The whole life of a Muslim constitutes of a trial and test by means of which his final destiny is determined. For him, death is the return of the soul to its Creator, God, and the inevitability of death and the Hereafter is never far from his consciousness. This serves to keep all of his life and deeds in perspective as he tries to live in preparedness for what is to come. For Muslims, the concept of death and the afterlife in Islam is derived from the Holy Qur'an, the final revealed message from God.
We learn that death is exactly like sleeping; complete with dreams (6:60, 40:46). The period between death and resurrection passes like one night of sleep (the Holy Qur'an: 2:259; 6:60; 10:45; 16:21; 18:11, 19, 25; 30:55). At the moment of death, everyone knows his or her destiny; heaven or hell. For the disbelievers, death is a horrible event; the angels beat them on the faces and rear ends as they snatch away their souls (the Holy Qur'an:8:50, 47:27, 79:1). Consistently, the Holy Qur'an talks about two deaths; the first death took place when we failed to make a stand with God's absolute authority. That first death lasted until we were born into this world. The second death terminates our life in this world (the Holy Qur'an2:28, 22:66, 40:11).
The Qur'an contains various death themes that add significantly to our insight into the meaning of death, the concept is left undefined and always portrayed in close relationship with the concepts of life, creation, and resurrection."...
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http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/0000/00/holy-qur-muslims-life-death
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Islamic Quotes About Life And Death:
1- Trust ALLAH when things don’t work out the way you wanted. Allah has something better planned for you.
2- Death is not the biggest disaster in life. The biggest disaster in life is When our fear of Allah dies when we are still alive.
Please, see the reference....
http://www.hijabiworld.com/islamic-quotes-about-life-and-death/
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Ali Ibn Abi Talib described death as one of three things that he responds to: either the gospel of the eternal bliss, or the gospel of the torment of eternity. Lina, the obedient to us, is the preacher of eternal bliss. But our enemy, who is contrary to our command, preaches the torment of eternity. As for the mumboh who does not know what is the case, he is the believer who is overbearing for himself, he does not know what is going to happen, the news comes to him with a vague fear, then God will not distract him with our enemies, and he will bring him out of the fire with our intercession. Then know, and eat, and do not trust, and do not underestimate the punishment of God, for those who commit adultery will not be affected by our intercession until after the torment of three hundred thousand years. "
Hassan bin Ali (peace be upon him) was asked: What is the death that they did not know? Peace be upon him said: "The greatest pleasure is given to the believers as they have been transferred from the house of sorrow to the eternal bliss, and the greatest of reproach is given to the disbelievers, as they were moved from their paradise to a fire that does not perish."
And when it became more difficult for Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon them) to look at him who was with him, then if he is different from them, because if they become too strong, their colors will change, and their instincts will tremble. And Hussein was peace be upon him and some of his qualities brighten their colors, and calm their bodies, and inhabit their souls. They said to one another, Look at him, he does not care about death. He said to them, peace and blessings be upon him, "The patience of the honorable sons, what death is but a Qantara that expresses the misery and harm to the wide and lasting grace. You hate to move from prison to palace, and these are your enemies as if you are moving from palace to prison. The Messenger of Allah: The world imprisoned the believer and the paradise of the unbeliever, and death Bridge these to their genes, and bridge them to hell, what I lied and did not lie.
Ali bin al-Hussein was told: What death? He said to him, peace be upon him: "For the believer, like the clothes of a dirty woman, and the lifting of heavy chains and shackles, and the substitution of the finest clothes, and the best of them, smells,
It was said to Muhammad ibn Ali peace be upon him: What death? He said: "It is the sleep that comes to you every night, but it is long-term not notice it only on the Day of Resurrection, some of them saw in the sleep of the classes of joy, which can not be limited, and some of them saw in his sleep types of horrors can not limit, From joy in death and glory in it! This is death, so be prepared for him. "
It was said to the peace be upon him: Describe our death? And he said to the believers, "As for the best of the wind, let him sleep, and let him forget for his goodness, and he shall be cut off from all weariness and pain."
It was said: Some people say it is more than the publication of saws, and loan Balmqrnd, and threw stones, and rotate the pole of life in the herd? He said: "It is also on some of the disbelievers and the infidels, do not you see them who see those adversities, that is more severe than this [except the torment of the Hereafter] more than the torment of the earth."
It is said: What we see infidels easy to be extinguished and extinguished, and he speaks and laughs and speaks, and in the believers who is also so, and in the believers and disbelievers who suffer when the death throats these adversities? (Peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There is no rest there for the believers, because it is urgent to reward them, To return the Hereafter and has nothing but what is required by the torment, and the severity of the infidel there is the beginning of the punishment of God when he ran out of benefits, that God is justice is not permissible.
Death – particularly the death of humans – has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion, due to the affection for the being that has died and the termination of social and familial bonds with the deceased. Other concerns include fear of death, necrophobia, anxiety, sorrow, grief, emotional pain, depression, sympathy, compassion, solitude, or saudade. Many culture and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also hold the idea of reward or judgement and punishment for past sin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
Death is the visible separation of people from the physical world and their associates to the metaphysical world where their everlasting fate will be decided by the higher spirits whether to live again or perish forever.
Dickson Adom
'The first law of energy, or Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another. For example, turning on a light would seem to produce energy; however, it is electrical energy that is converted'
I belief after death, there is more to it unless the ......
An indisputable fact - death awaits us all.
I personally regard death as disappearance from the face of the Earth
- transition to non-existence.
There is no doubt that each of us during the time of earthly existence
- leaves a trace. This may be something significant for humanity as a
for example, a genius literary work, a painting, an architectural
Creation, scientific theory ...
All this is important for humanity - but it does not matter for
the deceased.
If people believed in the afterlife which by contrast to the
real life - would be a total bliss (Paradise), then most of people (those with brains)
would prefer - to stop their earthly existence - as quickly as possible
And on Earth would have remained only those who have neither mind nor,
imagination.
This would be a mass exodus of humanity from Earth into non-existence.
What is Death?
Death is the departure or separation of entities e.g. separation of soul from body, separation of husband from wife etc.
Dear Ping Fung
what a philosophy, i appreciate these two lines you have described in scholarly rather philosopher way, love you sir.
who is the wife soul or body? if you ask me i will say soul is the husband leaves the wife and go to soul platform( muqam-e-arwah) the body decays in most of the cases depending upon different religious believes but soul remains alive.
some religions say a soul go to seven or eight bodies and some say soul is allowed to select a body before it is allocated a body.
Dear Colleagues,
One of my simple previous questions was "Is it possible to create a cure for ageing?" so the final or extreme point of my question with out any suggested or developed cure will be the Death.
I hope to all my RG colleagues long healthy life.
Regards,
Emad
I believe that there are three stages of human existence. A stage in the visible world, a transitional stage between the visible and the invisible world and a stage in the invisible world.
So death is when there is end of life in this visible world. That is, the separation of the soul from the body which marks the movement from the visible stage of existence to the transitional stage of existence. For better understanding, you can read on my book entitled "Human Existence".
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize the world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
---- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Death and Judgment
AMAZING AS IT MAY SEEM to some, death is a return. Man is soil and returns to the soil (Gen.3:19). The spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecc.12:7). The soul returns to the unseen whence it came (Psa.9:17 and Acts 2:27,31). In fact Job speaks of death itself as a return when he says:
For I know that Thou wilt return me to death. (Job 30:23 AV).
Neither man as a whole, nor any part of him enters a new, unknown condition at death, but all returns to the state from which it emerged when life was imparted. Even as the body was created of existing entities, so with the spirit which was given by God; and at death these return to the same condition in which they were before.
This truth has been obscured by inconsistency in rendering the Hebrew word shub. This word is represented in the English Authorized version by one hundred and forty-two variations in rendering. On the other hand, five Hebrew words are translated return. Our only recourse is a fresh, concordant study of the term. The main question to be decided is whether this Hebrew word simply means to turn, or if it includes the thought of a previous condition, hence a return. The following passages from the Authorized Version are in point.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson
“Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”
― Steve Jobs
“The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.”
― Saul Bellow
Over time, death has been defined in many ways. Often, we personify death, with visions ranging from the grisly and gnarled Grim Reaper to the dashingly handsome Brad Pitt in the 1998 film "Meet Joe Black." In the first edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, death was briefly summarized as "the separation of the soul and the body," and this definition generally reflects how our views of death are tied up with our religious beliefs (or lack thereof). Fifteen editions later, the entry was 30 times longer [source: Kastenbaum]. That increase in length is likely due to the greater understanding we have of the human body. But from a purely biological standpoint, death is no easier to define; indeed, medical advances and technology have only made it tougher to determine when a person is, in fact, dead.
Not that identifying death without medical technology was any picnic, either. Imagine for a moment that you lived several hundred years ago. You're at home with the matriarch of the family, who appears to have died. You don't call a doctor for help; rather, you would have called the local priest to make the determination of death. The family and the priest would only have outward signs that the person was dead -- they may have held a mirror to the woman's mouth or a feather above her nose to look for signs of breath. If the mirror didn't cloud or the feather didn't move, then that person was as good as gone. In the 18th century, enough was known about the human body that you would have checked for a heartbeat, but it was still several decades before the invention of the stethoscope. You might have done something known as Balfour's test, which means you would have stuck needles through the skin into the heart. Then you would have watched the top of the needles, which had flags attached, to see if there was movement.
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
we trouble our life by thoughts about death,our death by thoughts about life-Michel De montaigne
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily-Napoleon Bonaparte
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn- Mahatma Gandhi
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying- Martin Luther
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? -Socrates
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying- Martin Luther
Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel--you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more-JEROME P. CRABB,
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death
,And, with his sickle keen
,He reaps the bearded grain at a breath
,And the flowers that grow between-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force.-YODA
Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel--you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more-JEROME P. CRABB,
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us-JOHN ASHBERY,
For death is but a passing phase of Life;
A change of dress, a disrobing;
A birth into the unborn again;
A commencing where we ended;
A starting where we stopped to rest;
A crossroad of Eternity;
A giving up of something, to possess all things.
The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real-EDWIN LEIBFREED
"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"—Epicurus
Death is the beginning of another life ,entering into another horizon.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. -Steve Jobs
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid-Langston Hughes
Hi,
Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Every thing in this world has an end and death is the usual end of human beings. It is something that we must believe in absolutely. We shouldn't be afraid of death, we have to seek the way that makes death a fulfillment.
The true death of man is when he leaves nothing behind
But he should not be considered dead if he leaves behind him A science that benefits mankind or good deed, or sons who pray for him or her to the Lord
Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)
Life is a single stop point at the train of long trip and this trip is starting at death occurrence, so that means death is trigger point.
Hope you all my colleagues long health life.
Emad
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Good Day,
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveler returns puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Good Day,
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
Death is the separation of the immaterial mind or soul from the physical body. According to traditional Jewish, Christian, and Muslim teachings, this separation is temporary, such that the soul will be reinfused into the restored and perfected body at the general resurrection.
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time-
Laurie Halse Anderson
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all-Seneca
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
---- Marina Abramovic
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
---- Desiderius Erasmus
Death means finishing a job permanently in this life. The results of the finished job is a matter for importance to the dead man and somepepole.
Best regards
Aly R Abdel-Moemin
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Good Day,
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
---- George Eliot
Cowards die many times before their deaths.The valiant never taste of death but once.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force-YODA
Death
As a dark Shadow
Beckons his prey
Into the unknown
By a soft whisper
In the soul-CINDY CHENEY
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Good Day,
Inactivity is death.
---- Benito Mussolini
Morn after morn dispels the dark,
Bearing our lives away;
Absorbed in cares we fail to mark
How swift our years decay;
Some maddening draught hath drugged our souls,
In love with vital breath,
Which still the same sad chart unrolls,
Birth, eld, disease, and death- BHARTRHARI,
by definition Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity (including the brain stem), and breathing.
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"Islamic view of death
Death in Islam is the termination of worldly life and the beginning of afterlife. Death is seen as the separation of soul from body, and its transfer from this world to the afterlife.Thus, it is the continuation of life in another form. Death is seen as a painful experience in Islam.
Islamic tradition discusses elaborately, almost in graphic detail, as to what exactly happens before, during, and after the death. The angel of death (arabic:Malak al-Maut). The sinners' souls are extracted in a most painful way while the righteous are treated easily. After the burial, two angels – Munkar and Nakir – come to question the dead in order to test their faith. The righteous believers answer correctly and live in peace and comfort while the sinners and disbelievers fail and punishments ensue. The time period or stage between death and resurrection is called the life of barzakh. Suicide, Euthanasia, and unjust murder as means of death are all prohibited in Islam, and are considered major sins."...
Please, refer to the attached website link for more details...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_view_of_death
Death is a total stoppage of the blood circulation, and cessation of vital functions of the body such as respiration and pulsation.
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