What Is Death
What is death? How do we experience death? Will it hurt? Is there life after death; do we survive? What is the after-life like? These are just a few of the many questions about death which people have asked since the beginning of time.
In following the journey of the soul, death truly becomes a great adventure in which the way is opened for the soul to pass from one realm to the other.
Socrates believed that the soul lived on as depicted by Plato in his writings. Plato writes; "Let us examine it in some such a manner as this: whether the souls of men who have died exist in the underworld or not. We recall an ancient theory that souls arriving there come from here, and then again that they arrive here and are born here from the dead. If that is true, that the living come back from the dead, then surely our souls must exist there, for they could not come if they did not exist, and this is sufficient proof that these things are so if it truly appears that the living never come from any other source than from the dead."
Arthur Schopenhauer reflects the same thought in his writings titled "The Indestructibility of Being." Schopenhauer further agrees with Socrates, that death comes from life, and that life comes from death as depicted by a statement by Schopenhauer which reads; "After your death you will be what you were before your birth." This statement seems to indicate many things, eternal life? Reincarnation? Life, in many ways is a series of deaths. We are always moving from one experience to another. The point being that we are always moving! Thus it is with death. The point being that we are always living! Death then becomes a natural part of life. Schopenhauer goes on to state that "life can be regarded as a dream and death as the awakening from it: but it must be remembered that the personality, the individual, belongs to the dreaming and not to the awakened consciousness, which is why death appears to the individual as...
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