Would it be foolish of me to view death as the last and greatest adventure of them all?

Question

Would it be foolish of me to view death as the last and greatest adventure of them all?

Answer 1

Yeah, it's the great unknown, I've always said this. But I prefer to get there the natural way. I'm not quite ready for the greatest adventure.

Answer 2

Certainly not as the "last" but not necessarily as the greatest - shouldn't life be the greatest?

Answer 3

It is foolish to regard death as demonstrating the existence of a dividing line and a termination point. Life is a continuity bounded by no-thing and no-time.

Answer 4

Yes so make life your biggest adventure of them all :)

Answer 5

I do not think that it would be foolish of you to view death like this, as death after all is the terminal part of a physical life, but I cannot imagine death to an adventure of any sort, it is the end of all adventures, and this is what is frighteningly interesting about death. It is healthy and brave to contemplate upon death for this enhance the value of life we have, and it also reminds of the temporal reality of human existence, of the purposes that we should seek through living and of the fact that all in the mind is not for us to understand, and all in the world is not for human beings to command and control. I think death above all things necessitates for us to imagine a life beyond life. We do this due to our love for life that we have, and not out of fear, or some morbid fascination about death, that we might unhealthily have developed in the mind. There are some greater realities in existence that human life is only an expression of.

I do not think that death should be viewed as an adventure, but as something that could makes living adventurous. As if we believed by all means that we are not going to die anything sooner or later, then we would be bored to death. We would never knew the meanings of danger, recklessness, adventure and enterprising. We would not have realised that we are alive at all, as we would not have seen anyone dying ever. This is hard to imagine but this is true that life is made into what it is because of its very limitative temporal existence, to truly realise that meanings of a life forever, or eternity, one must taste death at least once. In this sense then may be death after all is a doorway to an eternal life of which the life present is merely a prelude full of sound and fury at first and then signifying something even more  adventurous than anyone can ever dream of.

Answer 6

No, as long this opinion doesn't include "let's try it now" because from that there's no return. No one can really tell what happens after death. There are two groups: those who believe in some type of destiny and those who just don't know. Religious people are in the former group, while agnostics are in the latter group. Atheists fall into both groups. Some atheists believe as passionately as religious people, not as they do in an afterlife but in the lack of an afterlife. Other atheists, like me, feel that the concept of God or gods is illogical but just don't know what happens after this life has ended.

Answer 7

Yes, distinct lack of people returning from death to extol it's virtues!  

Answer 8

No it wouldn't,  but leave it as the last thing on life when you have fulfilled your full natural life expectancy, then when it is your natural time when you are old hopefully you will not be frightened and accept what the next chapter would be.  

Answer 9

Would have thought it was the end of all the great adventures...  

Answer 10

The "last" adventure?!? I doubt it...considering the notion that God also recycles, i.e. raising mountains from the plains, turning oceans into deserts among other natural examples, we too are just embodiments of creation, thus we are not immune from being "recycled" either.

Thus, the adventure never really ends, just this present state of consciousness...of which, your "energy", "soul", "spirit" will also provide life in some other being once it has been released from your current vessel. It only stands to reason that, considering energy/matter cannot be created nor destroyed, only altered, that we too fall into the definition of a creation that will also be altered once the carbon form "dies"...

So, in short, would you be "foolish" to view death as such? Nah, not foolish, but it is in fact a great adventure, but then again...so is life. I would argue that the cycle of both combine to make wonderful adventures after adventures...so, enjoy the ride and don't forget to keep all hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times until the ride comes to a complete and final stop...

peace,

Baldy