Zone1 Remember Your Death

[Meriweather]

This is a picture of St. Francis of Assisi contemplating a skull. While remembering your death was a philosophy as early as Socrates and Plato, it became a common practice/meditation of early Christians. How often do people today, pause and reflect on this: Remember your death.

What are your thoughts on this?

 

[1srelluc]

No one will remember your name.

 

[Harry Dresden]

how can you remember something that hasnt happened?....

 

[Meriweather]

No one will remember your name.

Genealogy is one of my hobbies, so I remember a lot of names. What I don't remember--or know much about--are the people behind the names.

 

[Meriweather]

how can you remember something that hasnt happened?....

Think of it more as a reflection. It is something that will happen. What is important to you now?

 

[1srelluc]

Genealogy is one of my hobbies, so I remember a lot of names. What I don't remember--or know much about--are the people behind the names.

My wife's Uncle (passed) was all into that. He left us some charts he made up. I guess they are still around somewhere.

 

[shockedcanadian]

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This is a picture of St. Francis of Assisi contemplating a skull. While remembering your death was a philosophy as early as Socrates and Plato, it became a common practice/meditation of early Christians. How often do people today, pause and reflect on this: Remember your death.

What are your thoughts on this?

Death, the ultimate mystery.

Forget Las Vegas, if people really want to gamble, I say be evil in this world. Maybe you will not have to pay in the afterlife if one exists. However, if you do have to pay...

 

[Zebra]

Genealogy is one of my hobbies, so I remember a lot of names. What I don't remember--or know much about--are the people behind the names.

i also did some genealogy
and found that all my ancestors were wine growers around Baden.Baden.

 

[Anomalism]

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This is a picture of St. Francis of Assisi contemplating a skull. While remembering your death was a philosophy as early as Socrates and Plato, it became a common practice/meditation of early Christians. How often do people today, pause and reflect on this: Remember your death.

What are your thoughts on this?

Death really messed my head up for a while. I hated it, was spiteful about it even. Angry at the universe. Angry at God. When I was 9 years old I attended a funeral. I got hysterical, not from mourning the dead person I barely knew, but because my 9 year old self looked around and realized everybody I knew and loved would die. We are all doomed. That landed hard for me at such a young age.

I came to terms with it and forgave the universe when I realized I was being selfish to expect to live forever. Of course we die. Our time being so short, being alive in this moment right now in between infinity, makes life all the more miraculous in my opinion.

Life is not meaningless because it ends. The experiences we had, the things that we felt and the people that we loved. All of that means something and matters even after we're gone.

I have come full circle and am now very thankful for this small moment of life we have been given. A true miracle.

 

[Anomalism]

No one will remember your name.

Nobody needs to. Grasping at eternity is fruitless and vain. Being remembered forever is not what makes life beautiful or worth living. It's not even possible. Given enough time Alexander the Great will be forgotten. Given enough time our sun will turn into a red giant and destroy all life on this planet. Given enough time every last bit of hydrogen in the universe will be used up and the very last star will go dark, leaving nothing but eternal, cold darkness throughout the universe.

 

[SweetSue92]

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This is a picture of St. Francis of Assisi contemplating a skull. While remembering your death was a philosophy as early as Socrates and Plato, it became a common practice/meditation of early Christians. How often do people today, pause and reflect on this: Remember your death.

What are your thoughts on this?

Daily, to be honest. But I'm Christian so I feel like it comes with the territory. That's not even a bad thing, nor is it necessarily doom and gloom.

 

[Anomalism]

Daily, to be honest. But I'm Christian so I feel like it comes with the territory. That's not even a bad thing, nor is it necessarily doom and gloom.

Contemplating death comes with the territory of being human.

 

[BreezeWood]

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the original heavenly religion seems to offer a next level when triumph, good vs evil is ever accomplished as the spirit is set free from its physiology ... just does not seem to have ever happened throughout history.

 

[skye]

Why celebrate death?

Celebrate life.

 

[Meriweather]

Death, the ultimate mystery.

Forget Las Vegas, if people really want to gamble, I say be evil in this world. Maybe you will not have to pay in the afterlife if one exists. However, if you do have to pay...

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God is within our reach in this life and extends into eternity. This Sunday's Gospel reading was about the rich man who had a good harvest and was going to build bigger barns and live high from then on. God notes this and says, "You fool. You do not know that this very night your life will be demanded of you. Then what will become of all your wealth?"

Homilies I have heard point out we can take with us is our love of God and others. That's all we have to give God when our own life is demanded of us. We cannot take our gold, jewels, or all that we harvested and stored in barns. Those don't matter to God.

 

[Meriweather]

Death really messed my head up for a while. I hated it, was spiteful about it even. Angry at the universe. Angry at God. When I was 9 years old I attended a funeral. I got hysterical, not from mourning the dead person I barely knew, but because my 9 year old self looked around and realized everybody I knew and loved would die. We are all doomed. That landed hard for me at such a young age.

I came to terms with it and forgave the universe when I realized I was being selfish to expect to live forever. Of course we die. Our time being so short, being alive in this moment right now in between infinity, makes life all the more miraculous in my opinion.

Life is not meaningless because it ends. The experiences we had, the things that we felt and the people that we loved. All of that means something and matters even after we're gone.

I have come full circle and am now very thankful for this small moment of life we have been given. A true miracle.

Yes. My husband's dad died when my husband was eight. The effect of that is still with him all these decades later.

My dad--when he was in his eighties--told the story of himself when he was just out of high school working on a farm for the summer. There was a seventy-year-old man who lived there, and one day he commented that he wished for a longer life. Dad said, he remember thinking, "You've had seventy years--how many more are needed." Dad noted that young people simply don't realize how fast it all goes by--he certainly hadn't.

I agree. Life is a miracle.

 

[Meriweather]

Daily, to be honest. But I'm Christian so I feel like it comes with the territory. That's not even a bad thing, nor is it necessarily doom and gloom.

I think of it as preparing for what comes next. I want to be ready, so I do the "weight-lifting" now.

 

[onefour1]

I think we will all look back on our mortal lives and understand the whole experience of mortal life was a great learning experience. We will remember all the various choices we were faced with and that we may be proud of some choices and regret others. Our deaths were inevitable but I think we will be grateful that we continue to live on. We will miss our bodies once separated and look forward to the resurrection.

 

[Meriweather]

Why celebrate death?

Celebrate life.

That's what we Christians are contemplating and reflecting upon. The life that comes after the cocoon we are inhabiting in this life. This life gives us so many opportunities that can be with us after we pass through this life. Are we collecting things or are we gathering the gifts we can take and present next?

 

[Meriweather]

I think we will all look back on our mortal lives and understand the whole experience of mortal life was a great learning experience. We will remember all the various choices we were faced with and that we may be proud of some choices and regret others. Our deaths were inevitable but I think we will be grateful that we continue to live on. We will miss our bodies once separated and look forward to the resurrection.

Yes the great questions that will be asked: Did we learn? Did we have fun?