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[pramod]

If you think about death as part of the natural process, it's just as important as life.

If nothing ever died, we would soon be on a planet where we are swimming in everyone else's filth, unable to move since there's no more space. It would be worse than death, a living hell.

So when someone/something dies, like from a natural process, shouldn't that also be celebrated? That person/thing is giving up their spot/turn in the natural cycle so that others can get a chance to live on this planet.

 

[Coolwhhip]

 

[Spaceman292]

Because someone died, you idiot.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Nurse they're out of bed again

 

[triplestation]

 

[TheDreadBaron]

It really isn’t talked about in the US but other cultures have more ritual and sometimes it is a celebration.

 

[Rentahamster]

If nothing ever died, we would soon be on a planet where we are swimming in everyone else's filth, unable to move since there's no more space. It would be worse than death, a living hell.

That's not how it would work. There are animals that are essentially immortal, but they don't get overcrowded because of other equilibrium forces exerted on their population.

 

[Spaceman292]

It really isn’t talked about in the US but other cultures have more ritual and sometimes it is a celebration.

tbf in Mexico when someone dies they party way hard

 

[Raven117]

You need to talk to someone OP?

(but death is often celebrated as a part of this mortal coil… so I don’t know what you are really talking about)

 

[kretos]

ok fine i will dance on your grave send me location

 

[TheDreadBaron]

tbf in Mexico when someone dies they party way hard

That’s the way to do it, that’s what my wife says she wants but it’s not really acceptable to her family. I saw something about a place in Africa where they prop up the corpse and dress them up with the things they enjoyed in life. Seems somewhat morbid but also a better way to say goodbye than the typical american funeral.

 

[Amiga]

because the reckoning the dead face is no trivial matter.

 

[Enjay]

bunch of grown ass children just realizing they're going to die one day on here lately.

 

[T8SC]

If you think about death as part of the natural process, it's just as important as life.

If nothing ever died, we would soon be on a planet where we are swimming in everyone else's filth, unable to move since there's no more space. It would be worse than death, a living hell.

So when someone/something dies, like from a natural process, shouldn't that also be celebrated? That person/thing is giving up their spot/turn in the natural cycle so that others can get a chance to live on this planet.

We'll celebrate you when you die.

 

[Xenon]

Why do people like getting things from people versus being robbed by people?

 

[Werewolf Jones]

It's the end and the individual who is dead cannot participate in anything nor know the praise they got.

 

[kretos]

hey some people do

 

[Orion2]

because it's not a choice and in some cases it's a loss, literally a loss as in humanity lost a great mind that could've created things for more people to enjoy, like Hendrix or somebody else, also if it's in a pair, a wife, something like that, why would you celebrate that you lost your most important other, the only way I see death could be celebrated is if we celebrate the death of a dictator or something like thank God he's gone

 

[niilokin]

well I agree funerals should also be about rejoicing the life of the deceased one last time not just purely mourning the passing, but that's how our culture been for a long time now. unless one's last days were like last season of GoT or some shit

 

[Aesius]

bunch of grown ass children just realizing they're going to die one day on here lately.

My Steam backlog is too big to allow something like death to prevent me from clearing it.

 

[thefool]

Grieving is celebrating their life and impact on us.

 

[Irobot82]

Because ceasing to exist fucking sucks.

 

[AlteredForms]

That person/thing is giving up their spot/turn in the natural cycle so that others can get a chance to live on this planet.

Giving these people a little too much credit.

 

[mansoor1980]

BECAUSE.......

 

[synchronicity]

All is transition...endless change.

"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

...Plato

All problems are of the mind, problems of judgment, desire and attachment. Death is but another condition. Death is to life as sleep is to wakefulness. Just part of endless cycles of change/motion.

 

[nush]

well I agree funerals should also be about rejoicing the life of the deceased one last time not

That's what the wake is for.

 

[Ikutachi]

Not everyone gets to live long enough to die from natural causes.

 

[Patrick S.]

Fuck, what a dumb thing to say, OP. Come back and read your post after one of your loved ones just died.