Death And Life Choice

Table of Contents

• Choice in Death
• Living with Awareness of Death
• Death as Inevitable
• Life Choices and Their Impact
• Living Fully and Meaningfully
• Facing Death Bravely
• Control Over Life and Death
• Death's Role in Defining Life
• Philosophical Views on Death
• Regret and Life's Purpose
• Other

Choice in Death

The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.

Isn't it only fair that I should get to choose how I'll die? I wouldn't die like my father did, passive and quiet while the cancer ate him alive. At least my mother did things her own way. I'd never thought to admire her before for that. At least she had guts. At least she took matters into her own hands.

Death is not an option. Death is inevitable. But death is a choice.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

A person's last moments are an important thing. Yuou can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die.

Dying is a given, living is an option.

I choose when to die

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

Living with Awareness of Death

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

When you can do nothing, what can you do?[...] This is the most amazing, yet most obvious and logical answer: that in the certainty of death, one should get as much out of life as possible. Paradoxically it is the absence of choice in this matter that allows us to have more inner freedom.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

If we aren’t focused on living life to the best of our ability, we’re slowly dying a death that’s of our own choosing. The odd thing is we get to pick the course we take. Why would someone choose not to live life at full capacity? Scott Hildreth, Unleashed

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Of all things, only wehave power to choose that we should die;nothing else is freein this world to refuse it.

Death as Inevitable

No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

Decisions of life must be made based on the needs of the living, not of the dead.

You are born and you will die... but BEING ALIVE is your choice.

No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Life Choices and Their Impact

Even when it comes to the things we seemingly have no say in, such as the death of a loved one or losing a business, we still have a massive say in the way we live our lives in the aftermath of those events. If we are not willing to take the actions to change our situation – in other words, if we’re willing to put up with our situation – then whether we like it or not, that is the life we have chosen.

Decisions of life must be made based on the needs of the living, not of the dead.

Both Life And Death Offer Us A Choice. The Experience Of Death Lasts A Short Time And Has Less Variety, But The Adventure Of Living Is Longer, And Offers Us More Options.

It’s a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.

Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to decide what we are going to be in this world. Not for a single moment is our activity of decision allowed to rest. Even when in desperation we abandon ourselves to whatever may happen, we have decided not to decide.

Phil 1:21-24: For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, it shall mean fruitful labor for me. What shall I choose? I do not know: I'm torn between the two. I desire to depart to be with Christ, which is better by far, but it is more necessary for you that I go on living in the body.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Living Fully and Meaningfully

I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearof falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my days,to allow my living to open me,to make me less afraid,more accessible;to loosen my heartuntil it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance,to live so that which came to me as seedgoes to the next as blossom,and that which came to me as blossom,goes on as fruit.

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or a loser, it doesn't matter. Death takes everything away. Whether you lose or win is immaterial. The only thing that matters, and has always been, is how you played the game. Did you enjoy it? - the game itself - then each moment is of joy. You never sacrifice the moment for the future.

Facing Death Bravely

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death — ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

Better a thousand times take one's chance with death, than accept a life one did not want.

Face death, but choose life.

Many things that live deserve death, some that die deserve life. Do not be too eager to deal out death & judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all the ends.So do all who live to see such (hard) times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Death comes for everyone... I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Control Over Life and Death

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has recently confessed that he aims to live for ever. ‘I think there are probably three main modes of approaching [death],’ he explained. ‘You can accept it, you can deny it or you can fight it. I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.

It appears to me that the only choice you cannot affect is your transition to the spiritual world. It is going to happen irrespective of whether you do or do not believe in it, you don’t like it, or you don’t even want it. If you believe that your physical death means the end of everything, you might be surprised that it does not, by Jozef.

I choose when to die

Whereas if you suddenly go, OK, I choose to die now, you take the matter into your own hands.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose.

It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die.

Death's Role in Defining Life

You die when your spirit dies. Otherwise, you live.You may not do a good job of it, but you go on--something you have no choice about.

The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people- those who live to dreamand those who dream to liveAsk them the question about death if they can truly conceive

No one really contemplates death when making these life decisions, thought the Major. If they did, what different choices might they make?

Beryl, on death: “No, you should never choose death, but it chooses you. Sometimes you know it’s coming, like my mother, and sometimes it takes you by surprise, like my friend Ariel’s uncle who got killed in a hunting accident. Sooner or later, we all get chosen, we all get taken from this world into the next. Whether we end up in Heaven or Hell, and what we do with our lives in the meantime—those are the choices we get to make.” – The Enemy’s Table

It’s not just a choice: to live, to die,” she insisted. “If your mind ceases to exist, it will be the end of the world as you know it.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

Philosophical Views on Death

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.

Death makes its own choices. Has reasoning an order has a taste…

There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life isinherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.

What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?

If death is necessity life is a choice

But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.

Allowing people to choose that they don't wish to live creates a circumstance in which death itself comes to be viewed as a 'good,' so you have a 'right to die,' ... And then we move quite logically to asking about the person who is not in a position to request this 'good' called death.

Regret and Life's Purpose

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.

Your life is a vapor. You’re here for two seconds. What do you want your life to be at the end, when you’re on your deathbed? Do you want it to be, “Oh, I got to satisfy all those urges and got the things I wanted”? It’s so sad to me because you’re literally giving up your birthright for a single meal. Do you understand what you are doing?

My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors.

Other

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.

People die with regret, and I want to die with respect and for that I am willing to take all the risks.

Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self.

People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Fate was a damn bitch, waiting until he had something worth living for before making death an option again.

All of us come to the time and place in our lives of choosing life over death, faith over fear, and light over darkness.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

You are offered a chance to live and enjoy yourself in this world, but sooner or later, death will come knocking on your door.

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end

You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?

There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it’s also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies?

You either live who you are or die being someone else.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

It always comes down to just two choices. “Live or die, "But I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.

There are so many ways to live and die, so many ways to tell that same story, over and over, but everyone keeps trying to find a better way to tell it, a more real way to look into someone else's face to say, I am alive like you, was born without my consent like you, will someday die and be dead in the same way you'll be dead. What did we want from this? What did we really want from it?

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

Life choices become simpler when you realise you’re going to die anyway and let me assure you in this 2021 you’re right.

In theory it might be so that the reasons you live are what you’d die for.

There are three types of people in this world: the ones who keep you alive, the ones who would otherwise cause you to die, and the ones who somehow manage to do both at the same time.

It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

You live and die by results, I asked to be judged on that and people have.

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