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Originally posted by robertthebard:
Death is not the opposite of life. Death is a continuation of the cycle, and cannot teach us about life. It can teach us about living, and to appreciate every breath that we draw, but not about the concept of life.
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Teaching us about living = teaching us about life for Life = living.
Death IS the opposite of life. For the purpose of the discussion, I'm defining death as no life.
The process of losing those we love through death, creates absence, which in turn gives us an awareness of presence.
Life is animus, death is immobility, life is growth, death is decay. The end of a situation creates awareness of the situation, just as lack of a situation creates awareness of it when it begins. If a situation always is, there's no concept of it.
Regardless of what happens to the soul (irrelevent to the discussion), when an alive BODY dies, it is no longer alive. It is the opposite of alive. Thus we can observe a clear opposite of life: growth/restoration/movement/reproduction in death: immobility/decay/disintegration.