by Anonymous on December 28th, 2006

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Why do people have to die?

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by keetypie1 on December 29th, 2006
its times like this we can find comfort in the words of the lion king:
From the day we arrive on the planet
And, blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round
It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life
It's The Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life
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- Thank-you Elton and Bernie (Barry? What's his name...his little pompadoured lover?). Good lyrics and scores from their collaborations, to be sure.
  
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  by blessings on January 5th, 2007
- and thank you mufasa. you became the icon that bambis mother was in the 90s. you taught kids to respect nature. yay for james earl jones!
  
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  by keetypie1 on January 6th, 2007
- James Earl Jones rocks! Besides voiceovers, the best King Lear EVER.
  
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  by blessings on January 6th, 2007
- i loved him in will & grace - "but i was mufasa!" "honey more like BOOfasa!"
  
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  by keetypie1 on January 6th, 2007
- This is an awesome answer. I love the Lion King.
  
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  by fyrespryte on January 26th, 2008
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by JUSTNORMAL on December 28th, 2006
I don't believe anything actually "dies" it changes form. For example, a tree, it lives and once it gets very old, the trunk and leaves are gone, but the leaves turn into the ground and soil, the acorns create new trees, the wood is used for paper for years and years. Smoke goes up the chimney out into space, right? Well that doesnt die, it turns into clouds that go forever. A body dies, the outside that is, just a shell. Our souls live on forever. It is the ones left behind, that a part of them dies along with the body of loved ones. I am sure we all reunite in time....
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- Interesting. So the 'souls live on forever', eh? So where does all of this occur in light of this glorious reuniting 'in time'? And if indeed all 'live on forever', then what stymied those you say were 'left behind'? Are they those who are the subject of the famous books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins? And if 'left behind', then left behind where? Under the bureau? Or rolling around as dust bunnies under our beds?
  
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  by blessings on January 6th, 2007
- Well I have my own theories on this subject. The soul does not die, the body does. The soul may go on to where it belongs or stay Earthbound for a very long time. I DO believe that we all come back in another body when the time is right. Perhaps we do this eternally? The ones left behind, I meant as the loved ones.
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on January 6th, 2007
- You advocates of reincarnation seem to miss something that to me seems obvious. If this indeed is the way it is, why don't we all just get it right? I mean, we have had not just years, but MILLENIA here folks. For such a scenario to be even plausible, humankind would by definition be much farther along the spiritual plane. But the reality is a diametric contradiction; the state of the world is abismal, to say the least. I challenge you to find any sane, rational person who would say otherwise. In fact, the preponderence of evidence suggest these to be the 'perilous times' of 2 Timothy 3:1, a society devoid of love. "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." (Matthew 24:12) No, my friend, this pat answer to life's questions in the clear light of day is just another of the bizarre alternative theories put forth by the Father of Lies. Consider that Jesus said He is the God of the universe! Either He is a nut case, or exacly as claimed - no alternative is valid.
  
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  by blessings on January 6th, 2007
- Do you realize that millions get it right, and millions come back, over and over again? That is my theory due to what I have seen, done and experienced.
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on January 6th, 2007
- Ha-Ha-Ha! That is so funny! But <wait> you are SERIOUS. O.K. Lets look at what you are saying; 'millions get it right, and millions come back'. And they have been doing this forever (you did hypothesize on eternity)? Lets, for easy math, just look at a much smaller number (actually infinitesimally smaller than yours), say, a thousand. 1,000 people start off, live a lifetime, and 100% get it perfect. Absolutely right, and they come back to DO IT AGAIN? (That in of itself is absurd...more like punishment rather than reward.) But I'll humor you, and let's suppose they have a mandate, if you will, to let others in on their big deal. (Why else would they be 'coming back'?) The second time around they have another whole lifetime to...what? Get it right again? (You did say 'over and over again'.) Surely by the second time they could help just ONE of the less enlightened do likewise? I mean, in an entire lifetime, could not one so enlightened positively influence just ONE MORE? Possibly more?
  
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  by blessings on January 6th, 2007
- Look, I am not trying to change your beliefs, nor will anything you say change how I feel. We are all entitled to our opinions and beliefs without being laughed at. Please dont condescend by "humoring" me, it makes you look like a fool.
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on January 6th, 2007
- I am SO sorry, JUSTNORMAL. I sincerely hope you can accept my apology. I was not laughing AT you, but at the idea of what you proposed. Snide remarks and laughing at anyone just because of their opinions is neither mature or wise. The idea still does seem comical to me because of the sheer illogic leaps one has to acheive for this to make sense. If you could 'humor me' (and I do not mean this derogatorily), please do so, because I would like to learn more of what you are saying. When I discuss anything, it is to understand the other, and also (hopefully) for the other to understand me as well. Any change that comes about is up to each individual, individually. Perhaps I just do not understand what you say here, and I am only asking for your help and clarification.
  
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  by blessings on January 6th, 2007
- Thank you very much, that was very nice of you. This subject is always up for debate that's for sure. It is really difficult to explain and a very long story. However, I will try to explain why I feel so passionate about this. From the time I was 5 years old, I have seen spirits and LOTS of them. I am not very religious but highly spiritual, and for some reason sensitive to those who have passed on. I was born with a gift of hearing from those passed on, and sending messages to their loved ones. I wont even name the number of people on here I have comforted. But during all of this, I have learned that the soul can stay Earthbound to watch over loved ones, till they are ready to move on, happens every day. I have seen many deceased ones come back in another body, to the same family. It does happen. It may sound funny or crazy to you, but if I had not witnessed this myself I would have never believed it. I believe that if Jesus was resurrected why cant we? To me it is a way of life.
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on January 7th, 2007
- Dear lady, I have never in my life had an opportunity to talk with anyone that has experienced what you mention. I would welcome that. Perhaps this is an inconvenient forum for you? If so, I would gladly exchange emails. Thank-you for your candor.
  
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  by blessings on January 7th, 2007
- Thank you so much for your understanding, I do appreciate your open mind. I am already picking up on someone for you, but I wont post it here. I am off to bed so please feel free to email me. My email address is on my profile. Bless you
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on January 7th, 2007
- That's a perfect answer.I don't have any words
  
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  by maritso on February 14th, 2007
- Whose answer, mine or Blessings. By the way Blessings we did communicate via email and I picked up on a few souls who have passed on. You never denied it or validated it. So was I on target for you and/or your wife?
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on February 14th, 2007
- Thank you Maritso
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on March 4th, 2007
- this comment was a week after my boy died uhuhuh i hate it.
  
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  by 1hotgrievingmom on January 26th, 2008
- Sorry JUSTNORMAL for being late.I believe your answer was the best.
  
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  by maritso on February 14th, 2008
- i loved d way u explained it!!
  
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by TheAnswerer on December 28th, 2006
Why do people have to die? When you think about it it can make people mad at God or it will drive them away. Why does God let suffering happen? Suffering is hard for people.

To understand why people die, we have to go back to when death first appeared in the world. God created a perfect world and placed Adam and Eve in a garden filled with every type of flowering tree and fruit tree (Genesis 2:9). In the middle of the garden, God placed one tree which Adam and Eve were told not to eat of its fruit. You might wonder why God did this. But if you think about it, you will understand that God wanted people to serve Him because they choose to do so. If people were never given a choice, then you might as well say they were forced to serve God. God made the choice easy. There were plenty of other trees in the garden. There was no need eat the fruit of this one particular tree.

Yet, despite the warning "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:16-17), Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit anyway. As a consequence, death entered into the world. "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return" (Genesis 3:19). Because man sinned, he was denied access to the tree of life. God declared that is not proper for sinners to live eternally (Genesis 3:22-24).

Therein then lies a great problem, "For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23), and all of us commit sin "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Even though our sins are not like Adam and Eve's sin of eating the forbidden fruit, we still sin in other ways. "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come" (Romans 5:12-14). Hence, the main reason people die is because people sin. Even those who are innocent of sin, such as small children, may die because others have sinned. Mankind's problem is that once the doors to sin and death were opened, they could not be closed again by man.

But there is another reason we die as well. Though this world started out very good in God's sight, sin has corrupted it. It is decaying. "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not fail" (Hebrews 1:10-12). Perhaps you have a favorite pair of jeans that you like to wear. They are very comfortable and fit you well. But one day those jeans are destined for the trash can, because they will become so worn that they are no longer fit to wear. In the same way this world is wearing out.

Worse, each of us wear out as well. Our body do not last all that long in this world. "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed-- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. ... Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day" (II Corinthians 4:7-12, 16). Have you seen how frail very elderly people get? When people think about not dying, they imagine themselves in young, healthy bodies. But we all know that our bodies wear out. Who would want to live forever trapped in a broken body?

In order to trade this body in for a better one, we have to leave the body -- in other words, we must die. To get to a better world where sin and does not exist, we must leave this world where they abide, which again means we must die. "Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain--perhaps wheat or some other grain. ... So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body" (I Corinthians 15:36-37, 42-44).

"He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation" (Hebrews 9:26-28).

http://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2006/03-14.htm
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- well said
  
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  by RockAngel on January 6th, 2007
- Sorry to be disrespectful, I know you are entitled to your personal opinions and beliefs. But what a load of bullshit
  
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  by levingia on April 13th, 2010
- You selectively chose what you wanted out of the passages in the bible. You failed to mention Enoch who hasn't suffered death. Elijah as well, if I am not mistaken hasn't suffered death either. They both went with "God". If you are going to try to enlighten people then tell them the truth and not what you've been told by a book that has been written and rewritten umpteen times by people who are biased and want others to see what they want.
  
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by Firebrand on December 28th, 2006
BEING POLITE VAL, PISS OFF with your wages of sin. The kindest most loving person in the world died today with me sitting at his side Dont you dare quote sin.
The second part of your answer is obviously correct even if some people die much too young
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- (((firebrand))) I am SO sorry!!
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 28th, 2006
- Thankyou JUST
  
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  by Firebrand on December 28th, 2006
- Look I'm sorry you lost someone but I don't see how my post was in any way impolite. But then again the double standard creeps up yet again. I tell you that people die because we are all sinners and you get pissed yet you will tell me that when people die they are just gone forever and that my life is meaningless. But I'm the offensive one. I'm the jerk because I said what I belived. I'll pray that your loved one will see the kingdom of heaven.
  
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  by Valparaiso on December 28th, 2006
- You are quite welcome Fire, and prayers going out!
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 28th, 2006
- I certainly do not believe we are gone forever. My Husband had the Last Rights as we catholics do and his soul will be in Heaven where we will one day meet again I pray.
  I do not need telling he was a sinner. Nor does anyone else that has lost a loved one
  
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  by Firebrand on December 29th, 2006
- ((Fired)) I am SO sorry I truly am. Prayers still going out for you. Just try ignore the religious freaks, that just cannot seem to to focus on life, instead of the "religious" side of EVERYTHING. If you feel alone please email me. My email is on my profile. Be strong!!
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 29th, 2006
- Thankyou Just you are very kind I will remember.
  
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  by Firebrand on December 29th, 2006
- Thank you and so are you. I am here whenever you need to talk. God Bless
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 29th, 2006
- fire all people are you should know that. If he believed in Christ then Christ forgave him all his sins and he will be in heaven. I'm sorry about your loss but that doesn't change my thoughts. No one is perfect and we love eachother sometimes because inperfections. Christ has redeemed your husband as he will redeem you.
  
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  by Valparaiso on December 29th, 2006
- Val please stop pontificating on religion I told you I am a Roman Catholic we already have a Pope Pontiff
  
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  by Firebrand on December 29th, 2006
- pontificating? I'm a Lutheran hon I don't acknowledge the pope as my pontiff. Take care, and remember I'm really not meaning to tick you off or anything, I didn't even know your husband died when I put that answer down. I just put the answer down that was biblically taught to me.
  
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  by Valparaiso on December 29th, 2006
- 'The wages of sin is death.'
  To me, this suggests that death is deserved because they have sinned. What a load of bollocks.
  P.S. I am truly sorry for your awful loss, and I hope you have found peace in some way.
  
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by Mr. McClister on December 28th, 2006
Because when the human body ages it weakens and eventually it becomes so weak that it can no longer provide the vital functions the body needs to sustain itself...everything else is just a coincidence.
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by Valparaiso on December 28th, 2006
The wages of sin is death.

Actually if I'm not mistaken you are genetically programmed to eventually die.
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- I dont believe that sin is related to death
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 28th, 2006
- Well its not the amount or type of sin. Its the fact that we are all sinners born of original sin which makes us mortal. But here we go again with the double standard. I mention God and I get downrated. An atheist says they dont' belive in god and they are praised for their brave stand.
  
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  by Valparaiso on December 28th, 2006
- I am not an Athiest by any means. When someone loses a loved one, you have to learn what to say and what not to say. Telling someone sin equals death, doesnt make them happy or the rest of us. That is your personal view, and every post your write is about God. We are living, do you realize that? We are human, we lose loved ones too soon, we grieve and lose parts of ourselves. I just think you need to learn when to mention God instead of forcing it on others, when asking a basic question of any kind. Bringing that up on a religious thread is appropriate. There is a line here, that you seem to cross.
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 28th, 2006
- I didn't know she lost a loved one I just put the answer that made sense. I don't think I'm crossing any line here and no I'm not going to stop mentioning God. Mentioning God does not force my beliefs on anyone else however bitching at someone because their beliefs arn't the same as yours is. Do you think an atheist suddenly feels insecure about his beliefs cause I mention God? So I say again. How dare you force your beliefs down my throat! At least I say what I believe and leave it at that. But every time I do that someone's got to be right there challenging my faith and shoving their beliefs down my throat. I was an atheist for 6 years and I've been a Christian for about 3 and a half. In my 6 years only 2 people challenged by aethistic views. In three and a half years I've had more people then I can count.
  
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  by Valparaiso on December 29th, 2006
- I have no problem with your beliefs and I believe in God too. But everytime someone asks any kind of question you refer to God, that does not answer their questions, it just makes you feel better. I am NOT challenging your faith, by any means. Some asked something the other day about being loved by a spouse and you said something to the effect of loving God. That had nothing to do with the subject, thats all I am saying. Post away I could not care less.
  
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  by JUSTNORMAL on December 29th, 2006
- Could you please post a link to this answer which apparently has nothing to do with the question. Because I don't remember doing it. Also please remember God to me is an answer to most problems.
  
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  by Valparaiso on December 29th, 2006
- "The wages of sin is death." Interesting. How about "The wages of not sinning is death."
  
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  by ptrask on January 6th, 2007
- All have sinned and falls short of the glory of God. Save for of course Jesus who was God anyways, but that wasn't his wages to die, he chose that willingly. "No one takes my life from me, I lay it down of my own accord."
  
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  by Valparaiso on January 6th, 2007
- I up rate you because from a biblical stand point your right, But not everyone is gonna agree!
  
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by hershey_squirter_ on January 1st, 2007
Imagine a world of increasingly reproductive humans that do not die. Think overpopulation is a problem now? The only way for life to exist is for life to end. Nature is indiscriminate, we humans are shown no favoritism. Our greatest blessing is our ultimate curse.
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by timetogetserious on December 29th, 2006
It is a fact of life unfortunately. There are only two certainities in life, death and taxes.
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- Go figure ! I get marked down for telling my own opinion, one i believe to be the factual truth !!!!!
  
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  by timetogetserious on December 29th, 2006
- Thanks
  
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by Charlie17 on January 26th, 2008
I believe that death is optional.

There's some pretty good science to back me up.
http://www.mprize.org/files/sens/spiegel.htm

Anyone younger than baby boomer age has a pretty good chance of being immortal,
if they are active about it with proper engineering.

For detailed info, try
Ray Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near" and
Aubrey de Gray's book "Ending Aging".
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by NormaJean on January 7th, 2007
to make life have meaning also to make it worth living...because we never know how or when we will die
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by RockAngel on January 6th, 2007
AS God had said, to dust you shall return...
I am sure there is a good reason the good die young.
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by ChidoriXRasengan on December 28th, 2006
OK you know how when you get older you get more run down and... well you know stupid and weak.... if u lived forever like that... well imagine it
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by Constel on December 28th, 2006
it is destiny, everybody has to die, why we must die, the reason is unknown....
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by iDeath on January 7th, 2010
Read all the others and now here's my dos centavos: Nobody knows. Some people may be immortal. It's a usual story to hear of a 124 year old man or woman who drinks a pint of wine and smokes 3 cigars a day, isn't it? Maybe ther are places where people have been alive for 150 or 200 years and don't want to be seen. My buddy's aunt came to his niece's wedding and being over 100, a doctor asked to examine her. During a range of motion test on her hip he shattered it. She died within 48 hours. To that point she had never been to a doctor. No shots no pills. Drank a bit of wine and smoked a few cigs a day. Who knows? Maybe we aren't supposed to die. We live by rules, she didn't. PS when they offered her a minister at her deathbed she said "Nonsense"
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by nadchk on February 17th, 2009
i have been pondering this question every day of my life since i was in my early teens, and i am now 25 yrs of age. funny thing is, i never lost anyone close until this year, and it's been extremely rough. i can't seem to move on, i've been extremely depressed and can't get my mind off of it. my whole life though, i feel like i can't enjoy life to its fullest potential since i am always thinking about dying. i don't fear the process; i fear the unknown. i fear it so much sometimes i wish i were never born so that i wouldn't have to deal with any of this at all. isn't that insane? to prefer to be non existent over this? i don't know how much more of this i can take, my brain feels like it's going to explode all the time. i don't even have that much time on my hands to constantly be pondering about this stuff all the time... i have a great job that pays well, have a ton of friends, great family... and that's what makes it even worse is i know i should be grateful that i am even here and blessed to be given all the things i have but it's just hard to be thankful for this when nothing is clear cut, there are no answers and there are no guarantees after all this is over. it makes me feel worthless. I HATE IT.
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by HungryGuy on January 27th, 2008
Because errors occur in our DNA every time a cell divides, causing those errors to propagate to the new cells. Over time, these errors give way to cancers and other failings of old age, that lead to death.
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by Audiotron on January 27th, 2008
Because to live forever would take importance away from what we do with our lives. If there is always going to be another day, what would be the rush to accomplish anything?
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by swannie on March 7th, 2007
health problems, suicide, murder...
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by Anonymous on January 24th, 2007
GOD created humans with a yearning to live forever. Indeed, the Bible says that he put a sense of eternity in their hearts. Ecclesiastes 3:11

Why we Die: Because the wages sin pays is death. Romans 6:23 Through one man (Adam) sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned. Romans 5:12

Our Hope: Jesus said: The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out. John 5:28, 29; Revelation 21:1-4.
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- Well if God forgives all then how does sin exist? Why do innocent babies die then. Why does 'God' let terrible things happen to people who do not deserve it. Why, if Jesus rose from the dead, has nobody else ever did this. The only thing religion brings is questions that lead to yet more questions, none of which can be answered.
  
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by AntigoneRising on January 9th, 2007
To die, one must first have been alive. Therefore, the answer is that we die because we live.
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by thickalious on January 7th, 2007
God maketh life and taketh life.I believe when a person dies room is being made for that percious new baby that's coming into the world.When a person takes there last breath,thats the same way a baby takes there first.Something to think about.
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by Wendora on January 6th, 2007
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2005/8/15/article_02.htm

This article will explain it all.
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by anonymous on January 5th, 2007
Its just part of the biological process.
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by Bluerose on October 10th, 2008
We don’t have to die. We are just waiting for the scientists to get their thumb out and figure out why we all die around 80 -90. This world has an abundance of everything. We are not meant to get sick. We make ourselves sick.

Check this out -
Try to watch and listen to all the parts.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZrhkGbhgw&feature=related
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by leeks5229 on October 10th, 2008
People have to die because of sin - the wages of sin is death. There are two dimensions to death - spiritual and then followed by physical. Adam's first death (his spiritual death) when he sinned against God by his disobedience and then subsequently died physically at the age of 930 (Genesis 5:5).
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by JDPSBabyG on December 13th, 2008
i think people die when they cant take their pain and suffering anymore and just wants to be at peace. thats why people die
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by DukeG on December 13th, 2008
Because the if we didnt the circle of Life would just be a straight infinite line.
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by Len on October 9th, 2008
Sin = 'miss the target'. We have all sinned if we are honest with ousrelves - lied, stolen, cheated, gossiped, coveted, blasphemed God,.We may be 'nice people' but this does not override our sin. Thankfully, LORD JESUS does, He paid the price for us.Heaven awaits all who put their trust in the Lord, think of your best day on earth, multiply how good this day was by 1 million, and that's heaven.Get to know Jesus Christ - remember He said you MUST be born again to inherit the kingdom, so ask him to reveal himself to you, read John in the Bible, HE IS REAL!Thanks, Len.
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by Butterfly on April 7th, 2008
the law of nature.... this life goes..
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by Valbourne on March 4th, 2007
To make life more worthwhile....to make us appreciate each other more while we're alive...
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by Gonzo on March 4th, 2007
If you want to scientific reason, then because the heart is a muscle like any other. When you exercise, your muscles take a certain amoun of time to get worn out. The heart is forever 'exercising'. It takes about 70-80 years to get worn out.
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by Constel on March 7th, 2007
because, god wants to...
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by Anonymous on January 26th, 2008
To make life important!!
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by jammnwright on January 6th, 2007
because its the way of life
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by Anonymous on January 6th, 2007
Well, my Bible tells me they don't.
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by LauGhOutLouDx3 on March 7th, 2007
dave hey http://gabbly.com/answerbag.com u exited out b4
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by Slipshod Wombat and Co. on January 2nd, 2007
the world can't be overpopulated
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by tigueron on January 2nd, 2007
because we need a break from this life, this life is so hard that dying is ok, it's good.
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by blessings on January 6th, 2007
Some well intentioned got this technically incomplete, and thus incorrect.

"And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement:" (Hebrews 9:27) We die because we have a 'divine appointment', if you will. The Grim Reaper knocks, and mankind must answer.

This does not discount nor negate the fact that '...the wages of sin is death...' (Romans 6:23), but to be sure, this is referring in this passage to the spiritual death, and not altogether the physical one.

The sins of the first Adam caused the withering of our physical frames and eventual death of the physical body. In that sense those just wages are paid out throughout human existence.

But we who have the 'blessed hope' know that life springs eternal. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." (1 Cr. 15:22)

We have to die because it is the consequence of an inherently sinful nature. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:18)

The good news is that the death experienced here need not be the final death (which is itself not a death as in the elimination or extinction of self).

The final death is the inhabitation of a literal, burning hell. If anyone goes there, it is as a tresspasser, for hell was not created for man. It was created for Satan and his angels. To even get there one must trample under foot the very blood of Jesus Christ by denying Him.

I pray for all who read these words, that you too, may find comfort in the 'blessed hope' of eternal life as offered freely to all by our Lord Jesus, the Christ.
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by 1hotgrievingmom on January 26th, 2008
i ask myself that all day every day and still have no answer because there is no answer i scream and cry to god to give me one but still no answer.
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by Anonymous on January 27th, 2008
To make life important.
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by m4dm4nsgirl on April 7th, 2008
Unfortunately it is part of 'life' I am dealing with my Aunt dieing and it is so hard, I just don't want her to suffer!!!!
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by Anonymous on December 28th, 2009
Its just apart of life. All living things cant exist forever.
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by NeedAnswer13 on May 1st, 2008
Everybody will eventually die. Think abut it if you live forever in this world where you suffer maybe everyday for the rest of our life. What if your immortal but very old maybe 1000 years old. Think how weak you will be that time. Do you still want to live.
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by Kal-El on May 1st, 2008
Because if no one died for just one day, earth would be so overpopulated, no one could live here. Death is part of life.
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by kaylee on April 7th, 2008
To die is merely a consequence of living.

Neither could exist without the other. You can't be alive if there is no death because death makes us alive. But then others might argue that the concepts of life and death are simply abstract and think, they are only theories because we don't know what it means to die until we've died and you can ask a dead person what dieing is like!
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by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on January 27th, 2008
death = life.
life = death.
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by Pumby umby umpkin Est. 1989 on January 27th, 2008
To fit the natural conveyor belt of comings and goings to and from the world, and to stop the world being overpopulated.

And physically, we aren't designed to live for hundreds of years.
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by Sheriff Raff -Answerhag on January 27th, 2008
The first book of the Bible relates how God made the first man, Adam, and settled him into a paradise home. (Genesis 2:7, 15) When starting out in life, Adam received work assignments, along with one strict prohibition. Regarding a certain tree in the garden of Eden, God told him: “You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”* (Genesis 2:17) Hence, Adam understood that death was not inevitable. It was the direct result of violating a divine law.

Tragically, Adam and his wife, Eve, disobeyed. They chose to ignore the will of their Creator, and they reaped the consequences. “Dust you are and to dust you will return,” God told them when he outlined the results of their sin. (Genesis 3:19) They became seriously defective—imperfect. Their imperfection, or sinfulness, would lead to their death.

This defect—sin—was also passed on to Adam and Eve’s offspring, the entire human race. In a sense, it was like a hereditary disease. Not only did Adam lose the opportunity to live a life free from the scourge of death but he also transmitted imperfection to his offspring. The human family was taken hostage to sin. The Bible states: “That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.”—Romans 5:12.
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by Anonymous on January 27th, 2008
Life is a cycle.

Babies are born young
People die old.
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