What's better: being alive or not alive?

Re: What's better: being alive or not alive?

You don't know what its like not to be alive therefore its pretty hard to answer this question - if not impossible.

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I don't know if it is better to be alive or not alive. I think that the chance of being alive is better maybe, but I really think that feeling alive is more important.

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Life is but still a mystery. There are many perspectives in which we can view life. Through many religions, we are given that there is no death, but an afterlife. Asking whether life is greater than death or vice versa is a vague and very subjective approach to this matter. It is how we define life and death which brings us closer to the true meaning of life and death.

Life means different things to different people. One given this question in a relaxed and peaceful society will have it that life should be fulfilling and eternal. However, surrounding us are others who find death more peaceful, whether war had intervened their way of life, or an illness has overwhelmed them.

Why we live and why we want to live is another statement. Through faith, how the body we are in is given, is through the nature of the soul. From a secular view, we are born through the lines of evolution, until our moment of life has come. The soul cannot be proven to be a non-living feature of our body, therefore ruling out religious views on this matter. However, taking in the meaning from the eyes of a Christian follower, life is a gift from God. It is a gift we should preserve, utilise and manage. His son was brought into our world to lead by example as to how we should live. The true meaning of life lives with the path His son has taken. Our purpose of life is to lead by example for others to follow, to take our own soul into Jesus' path and follow him into heaven.

With the exclusion of religious and secular sides, our society frequently chooses the option of life because we understand life greater than death. Our knowledge of life continues to expand, although it never reaches perfection; however, our knowledge of death can yet go so far. Nobody can know more about death than another. With our given, approximated time-frame, we use it to sustain our generations, and generations yet to arrive. We use our gifts of intelligence to make better of or for worse, to change our world. Utilising these gifts, we can create emotions which are powerful and can alter our actions.

In one sense, life can be better if we wish it to be. Given our position, we can understand more about life, but not as much about death. Therefore, many people can conclude that life is truly better than death, however our given knowledge cannot expand until we can experience the true nature of death. The meaning of life continues to elude us and has yet to be revealed.

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Nobody dead has ever provably come back to tell us what it is or isn't like. This is not a meaningful question.

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i think the concept of life is very labile, i think of us as just ways in which atoms, quarks, and ultimately energy collide and morph. we're just very complex chemical processes, and the chemical processes exist before we get born and after we die. we're a part of the cycle, and to be honest, a very tiny portion of the cycle, so i wouldn't bother with such a question. the definition itself of life is just plain arbitrary and given by humans seeking an explanation for their existance back in the ancient eras of men's evolution.

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It is impossible to tell which is better if you haven't tried both, but for now I enjoy the life given to me and will try to keep getting better in life. Once I am not alive anymore, I will do the same thing (maybe, depending on what it is).

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After humans are all dead and gone it won't matter will it? Everything is just a big waste of time... every belief every action because in the end the sum of risks = 1 where 1 is death. Or is it? It's all just a question of what you believe because the fact is that everyone dies and good and bad are human concepts. Here's a question for you: What is good and what is bad?

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It's not hard to simply say "It's impossible to objectively talk about anything", so you're really not getting anywhere with that.

Obviously I prefer to live and try to influence the world in a positive way. I couldn't think of feeling any other way.

Re: What's better: being alive or not alive?

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Just live your life, ayyyy!!

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that was so random but I like the song

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Mmhmm, good point, because for one thing to be better than another, we need to have some orientation of which direction is good and which direction is bad. What qualities are prioritized to make one thing seem better than another? And in order to do that, we need a definition of both terms, so it's kinda hard.

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Being alive is better bcause ... I don't really know what it's like being dead yet.

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Well if you're not alive you can't do anything, so that's pretty bad unless you couldn't do anything worthwhile anyway