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Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427
because we are men and everything we do inevitably has our name on it, we attach our ego to everything we do because it shows everyone else who we are. Look at that Eiffel guy, he certainly wasn't a slacker in engineering class.
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What is a name anyway?! Even if a man is remembered by all generations of man or even worshiped what would that bring to that man AFTER he died? reputation? I would not need reputation when I'm dead. I would prefer to be remembered by God who could do something about my fate (since death is such a waste of time) than to be even worshiped by ALL men which would be 100% useless to me after I'm gone.
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Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427
I certainly agree. But death gives us the ability to reflect on things, how to culminate what the dead person has achieved and to make us realize that they meant something to us.
Your uncle Phil wasn't much of a talker, and you two never saw eye-to-eye, but he served in vietnam, and he saw things most people would never imagine. If Uncle Phil hadn't died, you would probably go on resenting him. but after he is gone do you learn why he was that way, and that you should appreciate the person while they are still there to hear you and feel your hugs. (sorry, I could really use a hug right now)
In america, after you bury the deceased, you DO throw a party kinda. everyone gets drunk and eats everything, that's a party enough.
but we take pride in the fact that we honor the deceased in such a somber fashion. beccause while they are going to heaven we have lost someone close to us. in the end it is selfish, but so is buying yourself a candy bar on your way home from work.
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Wouldn't that be more useful when the man's still alive why wait for the person to die before embracing him? I know because I too take most things for granted until I've lost them. We all tend to take things in this life for granted.
Edit: Actually when people cry over death it's usually because of empathic feeling over the dead. Then again empathic crying over the loved dead doesn't go hand in hand with the belief of immediate heaven so something is amiss.