Death
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"In this world of forms and illusions created by our senses according to our illusions, a man either is or is not, either lives or dies, but in the true and formless world this is not so, for all is otherwise than according to our knowledge, and if you ask, does a man live beyond death, I answer NO, not in any sense comprehensible to the mind of man which itself dies at death, and if you ask, does a man altogether die at death, I answer NO, for what dies is what belongs to this world of form and illusion." ---Gautama, the Buddha.
[FF to note: Punctuation, as per the book "What Becomes of the Soul After Death? by Swami Sivananda Saraswathi" published by Divine Life Society.]
So, what is Death?
Rajaputhran.
>> Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism's death.
Agree.... like JBF threatening everyone with suicide and making everyone feel like committing suicide themselves.
Agree.... like JBF threatening everyone with suicide and making everyone feel like committing suicide themselves.
JBF is experiencing 'Living Death', ugliness is only exacerbated from wishing for some continual positive reassurance from other parties. Most of us base our existance only worthy when we receive attention from others. This is a natural human behaviour. To survive in this world focus on knowing yourself, loving yourself, if you can learn to exist with yourself then its less likely you will become continually dependent on others for reassurance. Another solution is, stop looking in the mirror, better still remove all mirrors in the house, stop looking at TV where people are superficially attractive, look around where you walk instead, now take note of the ratio of people who are attractive against those who are not. This is the real world not the media world you live in.
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Philosophically, in Hinduism at least, life happens when soul unites with body and death occurs when it separates from the latter. All the different factors you allude to in causing death merely are reasons and excuses for the ultimate outcome (death).