why do we live to die?

If there is day--there must be night.

I could tell you that you have that sentence around the wrong way and that you should be asking why are we dying to live, but i don't think thats quite what you are looking for.

Hmm so.. why do we live to die? I have actually asked this question on my account and this is something someone said to me which was really helpful.

"Everything has a season, everything has a reason. Where there is heaven, there is hell. Where there is happiness, there is sorrow. If there were no today, there would be no tomorrow. You can't have one without the other. It is a balancing act. What one does with the life they have is totally up to him or her. We were born to die. While you are here, live life to the fullest even when you are scared. I think the saddest thing about living is becoming older and on your death bed you say, "I should have, I would have, I could have, but I didn't."

That is the point of living so at the end of your life, you can look back on it all and said, "I did"." - by Tressy S

anyways.. there are so many good answers people left me to pretty much the same question you have, so go check them out.

We Live To Die

Would you want to live another way? Aren't the best moments in life the ones where you either are creating, or becoming to a state where you might destroy it. The adrenaline, is the power of life, and the more adrenaline the more life you have. It causes for you wave height to increase, in the fight or flight situations. That is why those moments feel longer, because they are. And you also gain more space for memory and knowledge within these moments. The more you can put yourself into a situation where you may die, the more you are worshiped, a.k.a. Gondi, and many soldiers.

A simple answer: you don't live to die. God created you, not to destroy you, but so that you could get into paradise, and live in it eternally. Just as god decided to create us without him needing us, he decided to put us in trial, and only the good of us (those that accept him as the only god, and obey the orders he brought down to his messengers) will get in paradise. The rest will be punished in hell-fire... for eternity.

We were not created to just eat, drink, sleep, and then die. No, that would be futility, and the great creator of this universe is far from it. God created us by his mercy to work for paradise... The eternal kingdom.

Believe in God, and him alone. Believe in the messengers of God (from Adam and Noah, to Jesus and Mohammed), and follow the latest revelation (which is the Quran, the revelation brought down to Mohammed).

You want to know about God, here is him telling you in Quran 112:1 - 112:4:

(112:1) Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One,

(112:2) Allah , the Eternal Refuge.

(112:3) He neither begets nor is born,

(112:4) Nor is there to Him any equivalent.

And in Quran 2:255

(2:225) Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.

Depends on your beliefs.

Some, like Christianity/Judaism/Islam believe that is punishment for committing the sin of disobeying God. That is why a savior (like Jesus) would be needed; to restore us to immortality.

While Buddhism believes that death is just another step in the "life" of a soul. The soul kills off its body after it has learned all it can in this life, and then it moves on to the next life to learn new lessons and to pay off any good or bad karma. For example, if a soul wanted to know what it was like to be pregnant, but was currently a man, it might move on by dying and becoming a woman. Then it gets pregnant and learns that lesson.

Atheism believes it is all just chance. We evolved with the inability to live forever. We have to die sometime. We may evolve to live longer, or we may evolve the intelligence to cure new diseases and to fight off other things that kill us. But death is simply part of the life process that occurred by chance.

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why do we live to die?

To live is the most irrational decision humans can make. We all know that we'll die at the end, but we choose to prolong it at the cost of possible suffering. If life was pure pleasure, you can convince yourself that you might as well live it while you're here. But life is also full of suffering, and we all ignore it and we cling to life even when we know that the worst possible misery can one day come to us, but we gamble and continue to live.

The most rational decision is suicide, to avoid possible suffering. But we humans are irrational, and we cling to life because we're slaves to our brains. Our brains force us to like things like life, food, and something as disgusting as sex. And we have no choice but to obey, because our brain is us.

Buddhists believe the true polarity is not "life and death" but rather "birth and death"--life existing in different forms throughout this birth/death cycle. The idea is that our basic nature is energy, and as physics demonstrates, energy can't be destroyed. It's always moving in kind of a "now you see it, now you don't" rhythm.

I'm not necessarily endorsing this view. I'm just offering it as one possible explanation for your question.

We live to die, in order we get new life.

Simply put, we don't. Just because death is the end of life does not mean that it is the purpose of life.

There are many philosophical theories on the purpose of life (few of which include death), but those can be discussed in another question.