My Dark School Of Thoughts

Death!

Science:
   Death according to science is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. The word refers both to the particular processes of life’s cessation as well as to the condition or state of a formerly living body. Problems which commonly bring about death include predation, malnutrition, accidents resulting in terminal injury, and disease. The nature of death has been for millennium a central concern of the world’s religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry, and belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has been a central aspect of religious belief. In modern scientific inquiry, the origin and nature of consciousness has yet to be fully understood; any such view about the existence or non-existence of consciousness after death therefore remains speculative. The concept of death is a key to human understanding of the phenomenon. There are many scientific approaches to the concept. For example, brain death, as practiced in medical science, defines death as a point in time during which brain activity ceases. One of the challenges in defining death is in distinguishing it from life. As a point in time, death would seem to refer to the moment at which life ends. However, determining when death has occurred requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death. This is problematic because there is little consensus over how to define life. It is possible to define life in terms of consciousness. When consciousness ceases, a living organism can be said to have died. One of the notable flaws in this approach, however, is that there are many organisms which are alive but probably not conscious for example, single-celled organisms. Another problem with this approach is in defining consciousness, which has many different definitions given by modern scientists, psychologists and philosophers. This general problem of defining death applies to the particular challenge of defining death in the context of medicine.
             

Christianity:

   “He suffered and was buried, Then He rose again” After the Cross, after the descent into death there is the Resurrection from the dead — that principal, fundamental and decisive confirmation of the Symbol of Faith, a confirmation from the very heart of Christianity. Indeed “if Christ is not raised, then your faith is in vain.” These are the words of the Apostle Paul, and they remain fundamental for Christianity to this day. Christianity is a belief, first of all and above all, in the fact that Christ did not remain in the grave, that life shone forth from death and that in Christ’s Resurrection from the dead, the absolute, all-encompassing law of dying and death, which tolerated no exceptions, was somehow blown apart and overcome from within. So in other words you die and go to hell or heaven depending on what way your beliefs swung when you were alive. The concept of Life after Death in Christianity is very clear. When we die, our soul separates from the body and ascends into heaven while our body returns to the dust. One can determine their life after death according to the life one has spent on earth. Life after death is directly linked to our life on planet Earth.
    The moment we are born, God has a purpose for us. If a person has found out the purpose of his life and led his life according to it, he then receives eternal life. If that human being has spent a good and God Fearing life in this world, God accepts his soul and sends him to Paradise, while a person who has spent a life full of wrong doings and has rejected God’s purpose for him, his soul is rejected by God and is thrown into Hell. Our religious leaders have always taught us that this world is a temporary home for us. God wants us to lead this temporary life in doing good to others, and fulfilling God’s purpose, and then only would you gain everlasting blessings in Heaven.
Islam:

    For the Muslim, the whole of this life constitutes a trial and a test for the human 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 Quran the final reveled message from God. We learn that death is exactly like sleeping; complete with dreams. The period between death and resurrection passes like one night of sleep. 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. Consistently, the Quran 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 Quran, 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. The Quran seems to be more concerned to determine the nature of death. Allah says in the Quran: “Everyone shall taste death. And only on the day of resurrection shall you be paid your wages in full. And whoever is removed away from the fire and admitted to paradise, this person is indeed successful. 
Hinduism:

   Our soul never dies; only the physical body dies. We neither fear death nor look forward to it, but revere it as a most exalted experience. Life, death and the afterlife are part of our path to perfect oneness with God. For Hindus, death is nobly referred to as  ‘the great journey’. When the lessons of this life have been learned and karma’s reach a point of intensity, the soul leaves the physical body, which then returns its elements to the earth. The awareness, will, memory and intelligence which we think of ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick transition from the physical  world to the astral world. There is no external hell, nor is there a Satan. However, there are hellish states of mind and woeful births for those who think and act wrongfully–temporary tormenting conditions that lift the fiery forces within. Hinduism does not believe in an eternal hell. However, hellish states of mind and woeful births do exist temporarily for those who think and act wrongfully. They consist of fear, hate, jealousy, bigotry and anger, and are brought about by one’s own thoughts, actions and deeds. But they are not eternal and can be changed by positive karma.  Satan does not exist nor does he tempt mankind                                             

Buddhism:

  To Buddhism, however, death is not the end of life, it is merely the end of the body we inhabit in this life, but our spirit will still remain and seek out through the need of attachment, attachment to a new body and new life. Where they will be born is a result of the past and the accumulation of positive and negative action, and the resultant karma (cause and effect) is a result of ones past actions.

   This would lead to the person to be reborn in one of 6 realms which are; heaven, human beings, Asura, hungry ghost, animal and hell. Realms, according to the severity of ones karmic actions, Buddhists believe however, none of these places are permanent and one does not remain in any place indefinitely. So we can say that in Buddhism, life does not end, merely goes on in other forms that are the result of accumulated karma. Buddhism is a belief that emphasizes the impermanence of lives, including all those beyond the present life. So do not fear death because it leads to re-birth.                                                  
   Different religions with their respective similar views that go a long way to prove all religion are just a variation of the others. These are my views concerning death; first and foremost, when Death comes for me i would be sure to give it the middle finger before it claims me, People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they cant conquer but i don’t fear death because i don’t want to understand it and i don’t  hate it  because i don’t want to conquer it either, moreover  fear is a weakness death preys on and the moment it begins to smell your fear it would  start to stalk you, that is why i live my life as it comes and live to the fullest, i have accepted that one day i will pass on and i have come to terms with that. Life is a cycle that has to be balanced and that’s where life and death comes in! About re-incarnation i will keep an open mind but i don’t believe in the afterlife, we are all dust and would return to dust when we eventually die. I believe we dictate the pace of our life irrespective of the fact that life tends to throw a couple of obstacles your way. Accidents happen, so be prepared. As humans we don’t need the fear of God to force us to do well, we as humans have the ability to differentiate between what is bad and what is good. Death is black and it takes what it wants when it is ready, there is no escaping it when your time is up. i intend to live till am probably 75 or 80 because i wouldn’t want to be a liability to my children, i will rather have them cry in loss when i die than for them to cry in relief . I would like to die in my sleep peacefully but that might be asking for too much though because how you die eventually doesn’t matter but how long and well you have lived. Till something or someone gives me facts that prove otherwise i stick to my own school of thoughts and continue to live my life based on that belief.
                          
        
      
                                                                          

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