Why Must People Die

Meaning and significance of death in the light of the Christian narrative is addressed including adequate detail.

The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual's beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu, "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far – reaching an influence on human life as the belief in immortality" (1955, p.15).

In Everyman, the author treats death as a part of life whereas all aspects of it, including the physical body are only temporary, but the afterlife with God is permanent and should be the goal. Under this Christian belief system, every man was created for a purpose and has a unique path to walk. The Bible states, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, and who have been called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28 NIV) and “Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed” (Job 14:5 NIV).

My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me.... He was running at my side, out of breath, at the end of his strength, at his wit’s end. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support.”

"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” ~Samuel Butler

Next, we will discuss the biblical, theological, and cultural perspectives on the end of life issues. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” When God created everything, he advised us about our time on earth before we inherit the promises in our heavenly home. “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” In today society, many people are dying at a young age for various reasons. One barrier is the change in our dietary. The older generations grew most of their own food. With my generation and afterwards, farm life decrease and more fast food chains increase. Farmers are now using more chemical to make the food grow faster to meet the need of the fast food chains. Also, there has been more man-made food and concepts. These options have impact life leading to more clog arteries, digestive issues, cancer, heart-attack, and others. Another barrier has been increase number in gang related death, suicide attempts and death, and being murder. “While most pastors, theologians and ethicists agreed that it was permissible to

Every child has a different perspective on life, a different idea on where it begins and where it ends. Change for the better is beneficial in some cases, others not so much. In life, a child should expect to lose their parents at one point, but it’s never expected for a parent to lose their child. Neither one of these instants are easy, but more recently this generation is struggling with religious uncertainty. In “Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead,” Andrew Hudgins paints the perfect example of the difference between the generations and their religious beliefs.

One of the most ancient mystery yet unsolved is the question pertaining to death and the afterlife. This mystery is one of the fundamental studies in both field of philosophy and religion. Comparing those who believe in a god-existing religion against those who don’t, we often see many differences in the answers relating to death. In the contrary, the similar answers to theist and atheist are evident strongly in two great thinkers and their works. The focus will be on Socrates’ speech in the Apology by Plato setting in 399 BCE and De Rerum Natura by Titus Lucretius 300 years later.

When writing the article about Gilgamesh, the author, philosophical A. Brown, described his perspective on the meaning of life through human behavior and trial and error, by describing and applying the Epic of Gilgamesh as an example. Brown reflects that humans attempt to control everything and strive to become an everlasting immortal even though “allotted to [man is] death, but life [the gods] retained in their own keeping” (Brown 4). Yet, why do people live and why do they die?

People deserve to die a humane death. By denying a person of a humane death and destroying the hope for quality of life, we deny ourselves of our own humanity. The story of Mary Bown Hall, a mystery writer in California, was a tragic one recorded by photojournalist and physician Lonny Shavelson. Hall was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989, and by 1994 the disease had spread; she was so sick that she needed oxygen and sedation. Soon after she hugged her son, Paul, she ingested 30 Secanol capsules that she had hidden. She died only a few hours later. If an active euthanasia system existed, Hall could have died with dignity and in the presence of whomever she chose (Times

Death could be considered bad, but I like to think of him as a being that is being plagued with constant nightmares. When you think of Death do you see an eerie black phantom with a scythe? If you do then, maybe you should take a deeper look. People think of Death as a killer, someone who takes innocent human lives, but the true killers are the humans. Death didn’t choose the life he was given. He didn’t want to take the souls of the deceased. He didn’t want to tear away their last essence of life, yet he had that job forced upon him anyway. Death is innocent, damaged, and a savior.

Depending on the scenario, which includes the illness, injury, age, etc., determining exactly what death is can be difficult. In my opinion, death is when the cessation of blood circulation and breathing occurs. Also, as a result of a loss of oxygen and blood supply to the rest of the body, brain death is immediately imminent within four to six minutes following the cessation of blood circulation and breathing. For many older adults, death may be a slower process in which old age has forced them into hospice care, where their death is imminent and medical personnel can do nothing to stop their death from occurring. Over my lifetime, I have come to understand that tragedies may occur and death may be an instant scenario. On the other hand, after two of my grandparents passed away, I began to understand that God ultimately decides when an older adult’s body should begin to shut down. Seemingly so, a natural death of old age is the way that all of us want to die.

“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.” -Homer, The Iliad.

Christians in the first century A.D. The descriptions of the means of death that many

There are many different religions in the world and every religion has a specific set of beliefs surrounding life questions. One of the most commonly asked questions is ‘is there life after death’. Almost all religions would have the same answer which is yes, but each religion has a different answer to what actually happens after death. In this essay I will compare the beliefs between Catholicism and judaism surrounding their beliefs on the topic of life after death, I will also look into the similarities between both religions beliefs of what happens after death.