If people truly believe in some kind of heaven whichever religion, why do people cry when people die? Surely they should be happy.?

We live in the here and now, in which we have lost that person.

We lost any imagined future chance to enjoy their company, to be helped by them, to say sorry, to hear them say sorry, or whatever having a future with that person represented to the grieving person. All chances are gone, and we have to adjust our own hopes and expectations to a future without the deceased a part of it. So the crying is mostly for our own loss, or that of someone still living.

For those of us who believe in heaven, we do comfort ourselves with the ideas that 1) our loved one went (or will go) to a better place and 2) we can see them again someday. And if we are not sure whether heaven is real, or not sure whether the deceased will be allowed into heaven, then we do our best to take comfort in the POSSIBILITY that things are better than we imagine.

The comforting idea of heaven is valuable in times of grief, and it balances the pain of loss, but it does not cancel that pain.

Some Christians believe in Eternal Damnation so they could be crying because they're scared of the fate for their loved one as they don't know whether they're in Heaven or Hell.

Now, Christians, like me, cry when someone passes away because we miss them. Because we're in shock. But, I don't believe in Eternal Damnation. I'm a Christian Universalist so ultimately I believe they we're all saved as the Holy Bible teaches.

It's like when you break up with someone, or when you lose something that you hold in high regard, you generally cry because of the attachment, because you're in shock, because you want the thing in question that has gone.

Physical death is inevitable as we live in a post Fall world, but, all will be drawn back to God as we're all ultimately saved in the end by our Lord God as He teaches in His inerrant & infallible Word in the Holy Bible.

no one knows when they will die some die young and other live as long as 100.losing somebody close to means that you will not be able to see that person ever again in this life which a person don"t know how long will it be.and humans perceive time as worldly sense not like the afterlife.

second of all they think they haven"t done enough good deeds or r afraid to be sinners and recieve punishment.

these r the furemost reasons

The same reason parents cry when their children go off to college. It's the loss that hurts, even when you know they may be in a better place.

I agree, same was my conversation with my wife. I am dying because I have a thorn in the flesh but no man lives in the flesh for ever. And she said it was an emotion and a sentiment to know she would be alone on this earth. I said to myself your not alone honey just in a farm growing like wheat amongst the tare and it's not your time to be harvested. Just be happy you are not among the weeds.

Because they are selfish and are crying for what they lost. They aren't crying for the dead person.

But they don't cry like those who have no hope (Atheists)

Its called mourning.... we feel the loss of the person in our life

are you a human being?

We cry because we will miss the ones we love.

Standard atheist question #34

I take it you've never lost anyone close to you...but boy it's going to come.

And I'd like to see if you're going to cry