Death As Life Continuation

Table of Contents

• Death as a Passage to Afterlife
• Religious Perspectives on Death
• Philosophical and Existential Views
• Critique of Religion and Death
• Death as a Natural Part of Life
• Death as a Transformative Experience
• Mortality and the Human Condition
• Death and Heroism
• Personal Reflections on Death
• Other

Death as a Passage to Afterlife

Death is the beginning of anew chapter of life.- HDH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivoham, in the book "Living Enlightenment

Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again.

In essence, we live only to die; the Christian dies only to live; it is a celebration of life, not death.

Death is a journey that enables those who are His, to live with God in Heaven; after leaving this Earth.

Death without Christ Jesus is not the cessation of existence, rather the dissipation of eternal life from the absence and separation of God

To every living being, breath is essential. To the living God death must happen, because it is through death that God will meet His children in Heaven.

Don't call it death; call it moving to Heaven.

To every living being, breath is important. To the living God, death must happen, because it is through death, that God will meet His children in Heaven.

For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV].

Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.

People die. But when they love Jesus, they don't stay dead. They are raised to life again so they can be with Jesus. And for all eternity, for years and years and years of forever, they never have to think about death. It will never be something that will happen again. They will always and forever be alive, in heaven.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

Religious Perspectives on Death

At 23, I took the exampleOf Moses and JesusAnd went 40 days without food.In the end, Moses saw his god's glory,Jesus overcame the devil,I got a divorce......At 33, I've learned it's best to receive lifeAs It comes, let go of how you think it will go.Rumi said to die before you die.If you follow his advice, you will live your life alive,And when death comes you will recognize him As someone you've walked with before.

ATHMAHANA! Even while you are alive, saying “YES” to death, is “Athmahana”, hell. Even during the so-called death, saying “YES” is liberation, enlightenment. Varanasi stands for that principle, principle of saying “YES” to life even when it presents death! Listen! Saying “YES” to life even when it presents death! Saying “NO” to life in any form is “Athmahana”,

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

...on the topics of death and immortality, Judaism has little to say. While other religions are concerned with dying, Jews are most concerned with living. The Torah focuses on olam ha-ze: "this world.

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Philosophical and Existential Views

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Death has no conscience. Life has no pity. Existence has no morals. Eternity has no conclusion.

That which is so universal as death must be a blessing. And none may escape its benediction.

Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything.

For the misfortunes that befall us and the illnesses that harass us make even a short life seem long. And so because life is a hardship, death proves to be a human being's most welcome escape, and the god, who gives us merely a taste of sweetness in life, is revealed to be a jealous deity.

Death, and every death, is the fruit of sin: death temporal, death spiritual, death eternal.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

Death is more just than anything else in the world: no one can escape it. The earth takes everyone- the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no justice on earth.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Critique of Religion and Death

Death is the thing that make us keeping moving, without the acknowledge that we are going to die life would be boring, but in the bright side, I can guarantee that religion wouldn't exist

With the concept of an afterlife, religion creates a portal to infect people by means of terror and fear of death. If one has no concept of an afterlife, then fear of eternal punishment becomes an effective way to convince people of the need to perform specific rituals and live a certain way.

Life is meaningful; death is meaningless and religion’s greatest betrayal to the humanity is that it gave a meaning to death, it wrongly made the death as meaningful! Declaring an ultimate ‘end’ as a hopeful ‘exit’ to somewhere is the biggest crime of the religion!

The tragedy of death is not that it ends life so soon, but it shatters all our beliefs

Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.

I will simply die, as you will simply die, when our hearts stop beating. And instead of the fires of Hell or the clouds of Heaven, there will be a chorus of hungry worms or fish, depending on how we go. Isn’t that what really terrifies you most of all, why you force yourself against all reason to believe in such tales? It’s because you’re afraid of the nothingness at the end. You’re ashamed of it.

It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in ‘Life After Death’ live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.

The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'

Death as a Natural Part of Life

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

I don’t know if you’ve ever thought about this before, but if death is beaten, so is everything else. And because God set His sights on beating death, we can build our lives on achieving anything.

Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)

Let us face the dying process, being one on one.Let us make our life tragedy an excuse to seek the divine.Let us convert our life tragedy in divine will.

Life ends with death for each of us—for kings, and slaves, and gods—we are tied together by the final knot of death and failure, so there is no reason to look down on any other or for the gods to be patronizing or judgmental. We all lose. We all fail. We all die. But we all fight, and struggle, and defeat is not refutation.

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

If you die fighting for what you believed, you have died a good death.

Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

Death as a Transformative Experience

The person who refrains from Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha, takes birth after birth only to die; since for him the fruit of being born, is death only.

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

The eternal dark awaits us. And yet, the certainty of death does not lessen life’s worth. So much of what we possess and who we are has been given to us by the dead. Perhaps, death is not the tragedy we were led to believe. Though at times silently, I believe our lives are always of consequence.

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

The story of Sisyphus is no different from what we have to go through every day of our lives. We wake up, toil during the day, come home eventide and rest only to begin toiling again the next day. The only difference is that we are mere mortals and one day, we will die. Death excuses us from our daily toils unlike Sisyphus who has to toil till eternity.

Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Let us face the dying process, being one on one.Let us make our life tragedy an excuse to seek the divine.Let us convert our life tragedy in divine will.

Death is the vehicle God uses to get us from here to where we are going. Before you take that ride, make sure you know in what direction you are heading.

I do not believe in goodness in the world anymore. What is good either dies or is killed.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Mortality and the Human Condition

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know we're mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants. That is insanity.Wrong, it's being human.

During the war, the killers decides to kill people, but some or many people, is your death day. They get killed, even if they hide they get found and if they try to escape they get caught. But if is not your death day, God allows you to escape, he helps you to hide, and if you try to escape he goes with you, many dies but you survive

Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

The unlived life is not worthy of death.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Death and Heroism

Death follows you, Rune, because you deserve it.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

Why does death not come? It can only be because God still has some purpose in keeping me alive. I must still achieve something before I am permitted to leave this life. But what could it be?

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.

Being moral may not take you to heaven after the death, but it gives you a glimpse of it when you are alive

The death of one god is the death of all.

What purpose will your death serve?""It will serve to prove that you do not control this kingdom. It will serve to prove that not everyone will bow down to you. You think to rule us with fear, but you cannot. I will never renounce my beliefs, or my husband.

EVEN DEATH IS NOT THE END FOR SACRIFICE, HE CAN RISE YOU EVEN AFTER HIS LIFE, HAPPY EASTER

If you die fighting for what you believed, you have died a good death.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

Personal Reflections on Death

The ‘death of me’ is most often caused by the ignorance within me that’s killing everything that God is doing around me.

Death preserves an ideal.

Death doesn’t always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.

World People (only) forgets when time makes him forget a death. Whereas the enlightened one (gnani purush) will forget (any death) at the same moment. To go out and to die, it is both the same.

To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about all of creation, then there is no God, then this whole story about creation, about joy, and about the light of life is a total lie.

Death is a doorway to God. We celebrate Life and mourn Death, shouldn't we reverse it?

On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Other

Who is dying for whom? You keep claiming that someone else already died for your sins, then why are you going to die again?

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

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