Is death a good or bad thing?

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I consider only natural death because the alternative is almost entirely of our own creation, save natural disasters. Man killing man is un-natural in many senses. But again, I think that we die when we are supposed to. For instance, if Socrates had lived on, what more could he have acheived? We will never know and I think we are better for it. Though he died from the hands of man, he also arrived at the conclusion that it was his time. No one person can be responsible for propelling our species forward because it would breed in weakness. We all need to think and we all need to act collectively in order to truly acheive progression. Otherwise, we are left with nothing more than the prospect of progression without the know how to back it up. This is where we are at today in the sense that our technology is more advanced than we are in many instances. We cannot emotionally handle the technology collectively.

As far as all good actions reaping good results, no. Neither with all bad actions reaping bad results. Again, there is no good and bad. Only left and right. Hitler taught us a lot and so, eventually, can be considered good where as the inventions of atomic energy for the purpose of natural resource conservation created the most destructive weapon known to mankind. A bad thing. Good and bad are illusions in the mind and no result will ever directly match the intended result because we will find other ways to use it.

We may not always be willing to admit that we have reached our capacity for knowledge and understanding but too many lines begin to blur when we acheive too much and we begin to decline. We must stay resolute but most not ever know all that there is to know or acheive all that there is to acheive. We are all in this together and must continue that way through life and through death.

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Death is a good thing.

All the bad, confusing things in this world are lifted and you experience true pureness. Add that with being rejoined with all who have died and looking forward to those who have yet.

What is a little more confusing is how being righteous in this world effects who and where or what you are in the next. My current working theory is that being beyond death is pure, bad thoughts cannot enter, if bad thoughts took up too much of your mind, you will not recognize this new "self" and thus lose some of your identity or be stuck at a certain level for eternity (unless eternity is changeable, other subject).

A couple thousand years ago, Jesus said that to get into heaven you had to believe in him. There are two things peculiar about this. Who is "him" and why does simply believing give you a pass.

I'll let you decide who Him is, but perhaps, believing, actually believing in this changes your mind and heart in a certain way to be more accepting to what hits you when you die. I havent totally wrapped my head around this yet, but I cant help but feel like what you do in this life will directly effect you the moment you die.

Is death a good thing? I'd say its like asking if aging is good or bad for making a baby an adult.