Dear nobody,
What is it like to die? Is it painful? Loud? Quiet? Do your really see a light or feel the eternal fires burning in hell? What if you are run over by a truck, for example. Is your death and the way you feel different from someone who was shot or hanged? If you die with a clear conscience, is it different than if you had died with an unclear conscience? Can you tell if your next breath will be your last?
It's hard to have someone close to you die. Even someone you don't really know, it's sad when they die. Some people say it's good a person died because they are no longer in pain. But what about the thousands of innocent children and teenagers that die each year as a result from car crashes, a drive by, and gang fights? Or the people that die for their country? Can you really rejoice in their deaths? Yet the people who have been in a coma, or the people who have a stroke every week, it's kind of good when they die. But really, what is it like to die??????
In Memory of Ms. Wrede's Great Grandmother, Pearl. 1906-2007. We are sorry for your terrible lose.
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Well, once you've died you're already dead, so would it be fair to assume that being dead, or not being alive, is neither painful, pleasant, light, dark, or anything else.
I have never been scared of being dead, personally. Its the process of dying. It's painful, unpleasant, undignified. Whether from purposeful murder, tragic accident, or deteriorating health, it doesn't feel good.
Sometimes police reports say that people died instantly-- without pain. Generally, that seems to cause their families the most pain.
Yet, when one dies of bad health, one's family has time to prepare and feels grateful that the pain is over. But then the person whom has died has shouldered most of the pain.
Is it karmic? Does the process of dying hurt in the same intensity, in different forms? If one has many friends and relatives, do each of them hurt a little less by the sheer volume of the mourners? If one dies alone, like Eleanor Rigby from that Beatle's song, does one bear all the pain of dying completely alone?
Is it ever good when anybody dies?
I think it could be. If most people die, there is tragedy. Millions of tragedies every year; how do people stand it? But if dictators, tyrants, murderers, et cetera died... Would anyone grieve? Perhaps their families would; but if they were so evil as that, wouldn't their family hate them also? So is it better to cause a murderer's family the grief of one death than it is to save many families the griefs of many murders?
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