What do you think of this quote on death?

Mark Twain, as always, is accurate and awesome. I'm not afraid of death either, not in a hurry for it, but not afraid either.

What do i think of it? I think thats his view. If theres any definition of the human concept of death, or just plainly the word death, as something that comes before life, then clearly thats the definition he's using. I dont know of such a definition, maybe i can get educated on it if there is. If he's talking about reincarnation, then the word "death", in my opinion, was not the best word to use. Or maybe say "I've experienced death billions and billions OF TIMES before", not "been dead FOR billions and billions of years before": that shows continuation to me. Reincarnation requires 'life,death,life,death,life,death,etc'. Not 'death,death,death,life,death,death'. But thats his view and we're all entitled to our views.

Hemingway had a good one: "Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Kind of makes sense really. The more you have the more you fear death because you have more to lose.

Twain's quote makes my brain hurt. Haha

it is one of the best!!! i think reincarnation is most likely, and will be proven so someday. not by tangible evidence but simply but the shear mathematics and probability of it.

eleanor roosevelt had one of the best quotes ever. i believe it was her??? she said on reincarnation, "i am alive and conscious now. So, is it so bizarre or a leap to believe that I might live again or that I have lived before."

i used quotes, but in fact paraphrased.

rumi had another truly amazing quote: He said,"i died as a mineral and became a plant. i died as a plant and became an animal. i died as an animal and became a man. why then should i fear death, for i have never become less by dying." paraphrased

He meant that we only experience a tiny amount of time before we die, so you should enjoy life, and not fear death. That's a good way to view it. Many people fear death, and spend life fighting it. But if you live life not enjoying it, then you never really lived.

THIS connection from the "master worker" Christ Jesus is similar:

(Proverbs 8:22-31)

“22 “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land.

--27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.”

Can any of us really see into the past or predict the future? What we know of death is what we learn ourselves; death is all around us. We read about it in the news. We watch it on the movie screens. We experience it when members of our family or friends pass on. But until we experience it for ourselves...we will never understand its taste.

Strictly poetic, metaphor, humor...

NOT a science of philosophically sound statement.

Sounds like he was trying too hard to come up with another 'quote'...

Ya, that's easy to say. But death scares the crap out of all of us. Anyway.

Wow this is soo interesting and I love this quote!