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  • In the case of a terminal illness when you are watching someone waste away and suffer and you can see little life left in their eyes.. then yes, death is a blessing. In other situations, it is not such a blessing.
  • The older I get, the more sense death makes. We aren't made to live forever. Our bodies break and break down. Our minds slow to some degree. Our friends and family begin to die, leaving us alone. And I see in my Mom how difficult it is to watch the entire world and society change until you feel like you are an alien in your own world. Death begins to look like a safe harbor, a resting place, a huge pain pill! Socrates was a smart man!
  • Yes. Who wants to live forever in a physical body that deterates? Heaven is a better option.
  • yes it may be, it an option many people use to escape.
  • There are certainly times when this is true, but too many times people die before there is anything physically wrong with them. It is too soon for death to be a blessing.
  • Yes,it may be(since we do not know exactly what happens after death).We may be better off after death for all we know!
  • I don't think it has to do with the end of suffering due to aging, especially considering that in Socrates times the life expectancy should have been a lot shorter. It's more about the start of joy rather than the end of misery. This sentence has to do with the fact that Socrates believed in the eternity of the Soul. And life after death is a blessing. Th concept of hell is very limited but this is very early in the development of the Judeo-Christian philosophy. For similar references to mortality being a divine gift see Tolkien and how the Elves appreciate (kind of envy?) the gift that God only gave to humans: mortality. It has grounds on Catholic theology which Socrates influenced (through Aristotle) and which in turn influenced Tolkien. Note I'm not a practicing Catholic but this theme has to be brought in when discussing Socrates. http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~okeefets/apology-argument.html http://www.reemcreations.com/literature/socrates.html
  • I think he understood that the end was actually a fresh start and that underneath our superficial selfs, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, "Why, that's me!" And in knowing that, you know that you never die. You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears -- now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown -- and so it goes, forever and ever and ever.
  • Hell ya!!!!1
  • Dependss How You die ?
  • Yes. For the dead person if life was bad. +2
  • I'm not sure. My dad and I really bonded before he died - a strangely ambivalent occasion. +3.
  • No, a relief if they are on pain, to those left behind, but even the death of someone horrible is a tragedy in some way. Death is always a loss of something
  • Drag this address to your search bar: http://dogbegone.com/ Yes, for some reason, people like me take pleasure in this.
  • peaceful,yes,joyous?....

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