A common step into the unknown, uncharacterized, unproven yet irrepressible future.

Thanks a lot, dear professor Michael Uebel for your wonderful answer

Physical death is only one stage of life. If death did not exist, life would be meaningless.

Thanks a, lot dear professor Tuga Tarle for your wonderful view

Reduction in length of chromosomes with age leads to decreased function in living being in turn leading to termination of overall activities. Perhaps this is death.

Or talking spiritually may be is a movement from one spiritual realm to another.

The attached is my understanding of death As energy cannot be destroyed but transformed, we have an afterlife. We do not know if that place is better than this.

As I breathe out as I meditate, I often remember that death is only when the next in-breath does not happen. So each breath is an opportunity to make its acquaintance. (This insight is from Shunryu Suzuki, not in the least my own idea).

Thanks a lot, dear Avinash Shrestha for your notable words.

Thanks a lot, dear professor Ronán Michael Conroy for your wonderful answer.

Thanks a lot, dear professor Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist for your words and recommendation I will surely go through it.

Every thing is cyclical in this universe, every events every life! So life and death is needed to complete the circle ! Object to life to energy to spirituality to life to object and then again life. It is a circle and all we are in it unknowingly!

Thanks a lot, dear professor Rajat Sanker Roy Biswas for your nice words.

Does aging makes a person to think about death more seriously?

"Pleasant and unpleasant things are related to sensory perception. But death means incomplete sensory perception and is associated with lack of consciousness and pain, so it has nothing to do with us. As long as we are alive, death is not present, and as soon as it is present, we no longer exist".

Epicurus

I liked Ronan's response. At a self-discovery week-long seminar in Scotland 20+ years ago, when I was in situational, circumstantial psychological difficulties, I recall a group leader saying that "we - humans - are the outbreath of God" - however you envisage (or not) the meaning of the G word. I liked that a lot, that degree of closeness to the Great Unknown. The notion that humans are 'energy that can't be created or destroyed' - basic insight from year 1 biology - doesn't help me re possibility of 'the/an afterlife'. There's no evidence (so far) that any transition from the grave is other than via molecular chemistry. As for spirituality . . . . again zero evidence. Pankaj's question re 'fear to talk about death' is answered at any/every Irish wake where death reclines in a pine box while mourners discuss in respectful detail the deceased's life's achievements (if any) and their faux-pas (usually many, varied and ultra-human). Life is for living: and death is what makes the life cycle meaningful. Slan Philip O'Keeffe PhD - [email protected]

Thanks a lot, dear professor Davoud Ezzati for your wonderful view

Thanks a lot dear professor Philip O'Keeffe for your notable words I really appreciate your answer.

Everyone dies, sooner or later! It is more important how we live. May God grant us a good end; Amen.

thanks a lot, dear professor Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak for your appreciable view.

This is just only phase between two birth and retake of second birth

A common step into the unknown, uncharacterized, unproven yet irrepressible future.

It is inevitable to every living, and so it's part of life.

Death is a part of life. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.

Thanks a lot, dear professor M.K. Tripathi, Maurice Ekpenyong, Abdulazeez Idris, Tuga Tarle for your wonderful view.

"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. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."

Steve Jobs, Stanford address. https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Death is terminal stage of physiological functions.

The death mechanism remain idiopathic scientifically (ongoing challenge to the mankind).

The only way to handle it, is let everyone search for the genuine devine guidelines (revelations ) which will make him be beneficent, productive and useful to one another.

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering — and it's all over much too soon."

— Woody Allen

Tuga Tarle

You wrote: "If there were no death, life would be meaningless."

Please explain.

That life will not have meaning without death may not necessarily be true, because the meaning of life is a mental and relative matter and varies from person to person. Also; They may become immortal in the future due to scientific advances in humans. Given this, we can not say with certainty that the meaning of life will disappear in all human beings. I think man can always be alive and give meaning to his/her life.

Dear Pankaj

If we consider life and death as alternative phases of a process, then death becomes a natural part of life. Life not only is meaningless without death but it is also impossible. So life and death are two alternative phases of the same thing- existence.

Yet another person claiming that "life is meaningless without death". True, given life as we know it and the laws of nature that apply to terrestrial organisms, life without death is not empirically possible. But what does that have to do with meaningfulness?

Traditional religions teach the possibility of everlasting life, not of an everlasting meaningless existence.

Death is the end of life of our body and brain. After death there is no action by the dead person. Only the soul returns to its source, as we call it either Mother Nature or God. Death means END. Therefore, as long as you live do whatever you have to do. Because there is no return or continuity.

True, traditional religions teach the existence of eternal life, but in the transformation of matter and spirit through physical death. This requires a process, and that process makes sense because it leads to the spiritual growth and transformation of the human being. I don't know about you, but to me, it seems a totally meaningless life that would not have its beginning and end on the earth (in the cycle of transformations). So death is just another face of life or just another form of transformation of being.

Some concepts are notionally related to other concepts. Consider 'day' and 'night'; 'summer' and 'winter'; 'love' and 'hate', etc. Love bears meaning in relation to hate, as life bears meaning in relation to death. What would happen if there were no death? In that case, life would be different from now. Also, when a person or any organism dies, they do not cease to exist, but they transform to other things like human beings, animals, trees, plants or any form of life or matter. So the cycle goes on.

Dear friend Ali

If death has ever been a mere fact for human beings, it does not necessarily mean that human beings would be mortal in future. According to some scientific projects, humans may also become immortal by copying the biological characteristics of some animal species or other methods. In this case; The relationship between life and death will not be like the relationship between night and day, etc (that you mentioned) in the future.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality#:~:text=Cryonics%20holds%20out%20the%20hope,humans%20in%20the%20near%2Dfuture.

Death is an inevitability, an experience that cannot be experienced, a state of passivity and oblivion. It is a state of relaxation, a retreat or escape from the slings and arrows of life, "a consummation devoutly to be wished". It is an absence of differentiation where all the dead are the same. It is the essence of self-assertion which is based on self-negation.

Death is "an undiscovered country whose bourne no travelers return."