Death

Here is a general discussion on the topic of "Death" we had a while back....
It proved to be a good discussion to open the door to the topic.
 

 Discussion: Death   
                                                                                   

v  How would you personally describe “Death”?

Dictionary: death [deth] 
–noun
the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. 

Synonyms: afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness,decease, demise,departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall,dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb

Wikipedia: Death is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. The word refers both to the particular processes of life's cessation as well as to the condition or state of a formerly living body. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include predation, malnutrition, accidents resulting in terminal injury, and disease.

The nature of death has been for millennia a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry, and belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has been a central aspect of religious belief. In modern scientific enquiry, the origin and nature of consciousness has yet to be fully understood; any such view about the existence or non-existence of consciousness after death therefore remains speculative.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for humans.

v  You can actually go to these websites to ‘calculate’ your death….
http://www.deathclock.com/ Or…  http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html
How does that make you feel?

v  Could you ever work in a morgue? Why or why not?

v  Have you recently seen or heard about someone dying? How did you handle it?

v  What kind of initial reactions did you have to the recent news… “Bin Laden is dead.” -  “Tornado leaves death and destruction.” -  “The world’s ending on May 21^st.” ?

v  Have you ever wondered why funerals are the way they are? What do you like or not like about them?

The Christian worldview: Christianity believes Jesus (the Son of God) came to earth as man, lived a sinless life, was crucified, buried for three days, and was resurrected…
In doing so, Jesus came to “put death itself in the grave.”

v  Any final thoughts on all this?

Quotes

 ^“O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?
 Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!”
~ 1Corinthians 15:55-57

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  ~Mark Twain

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.  ~Francis Bacon, Essays

There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.  ~Author Unknown

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.  ~From the television show Roseanne

I shall not die of a cold.  I shall die of having lived.  ~Willa Cather

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  ~Socrates

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.  ~Leonardo da Vinci