Is the true answer to life's great questions that the questions are in fact irrelevant?

Question

On your deathbed do you think the answers really matter anymore or does the inevitable render the answers irrelevant?

That is what I am getting at.

Answer 1

If one thinks that way then one considers that man is no more special or different than any other living creature.  And we have no record ever that any other living creature besides man has ever considered such a thing.

The answer you seek is found in another mystery.  Life we think came from nonliving material in the universe.  But man has not discovered what caused to life to happen from nonliving material.  Since man does not know how life started then it must be possible to think that life as we know it may not end at death.

This rationalization opens the door to understanding why it is possible that men could create a concept of another world and other beings  where such answers could be found.

Consider also that before man is born into this world he lives inside his mothers womb for 9 months.  He has no knowledge of the world outside his womb. But as he is growing his body is growing limbs and lungs and ears to hear with a a brain to think with.  Not to stay in the womb but to be born and learn to live in a world he never knew ever existed.  

Another analogy about life existing in different forms is the way a caterpillar dies like in a cocoon and is rebirthed as a butterfly.

Nature shows us that life does not stay the same.  It is beyond our understanding as the caterpillar that did not know it would change tnto a butterliy.  Or a fettus that would be born into this world as a baby.  Or as life cane from nonliving material.  Thiese are all mysteries of life.

The conclusion then is that life is teaching us that man cannot determine that death is the final reality of life.  That important questions that appear to be irrelevant now could possibly be answered at death.

This way of thinking man has thought of before and of necessity allowed a philosophical and spiritual expression to explain man's existence on earth.

What I am getting at is that I believe in the religous interpretation of life. I hope that I have shown steps as to why a religious expression of life is not at all irrelevant.  And is why so many since the dawn of man have accepted the wisdom of men who looked in this area to explain certain mysteries of life.

Peace.

Answer 2

if there was no mystery in life We would be utterly bored

and there would be no amazment, which cheats you out of good experience

questions are essential!

Answer 3

We tailor our own responses to life's great questions. There is a basis of universality in those "answers," but again, we need to tailor them to fit our own lives.  

Answer 4

Life is full of questions and there is NO irrelevant Question!

You can't have an answer without a question first.

Answer 5

Perhaps the key, is to come to this understanding before you lie on your deathbed.

All 'answers' equate to Nothing. All questions lead to Nothing.

And Nothing is not irrelevant. It is the answer.