What is Death

There is one guarantee in life, we all die. We all learn at some point that death will one day happen to ourselves as well as everyone else we know. Every person we come into contact with will one day perish. Many will experience the loss of a loved one before their brain is even capable of comprehending what death is. So will die before they take their first breath as well. That is the constant in life, death.

I have always been fascinated by the different outlook people have on death as well as how each person experiences each death from their own perspective. Death is hard depending on your views of life and afterlife, how you were raised and finally what you believe happens to someone when they die.

I have been to funerals where everyone was crying, not able to even stop to give a eulogy. I have been to funerals that were like a big party and were called a celebration of life event and not a funeral at all. I have been to military funerals, 21 gun salute. I have waited for a funeral announcement to find the family held no wake nor funeral.

I am older now and as my wife just lost her mother she now has no parents left. I still have both of my parents. We have a lot of kids so upon losing her mother we both got a life insurance policy and wrote a will. I have never thought about dying to be honest and it kind of caught me off guard when she brought up doing both. To me, everything happens for a reason, just as it is supposed to unfold. You have to live through the bad to be able to enjoy the good. Some parts of life are harder to accept than others but I feel we must each go with the flow in order to reach our end.

How we go through life isn't the reason for my post, I want to know your thoughts on death. Some of the deeper questions. Is death just death? We have words like suicide, murder, accident, manslaughter and acts of war. There are many other words that are also associated with death but are they not all the same thing at the end? Does the description of how the death happened make any difference to the one who is dead or is it just a label used to ease the pain of the living?

As I believe everything happens for a reason, every which way someone dies is just as it should be. The method of how one dies still ends the same, death. Death sucks and I am sure many of us still have one that hurts like hell. That is the problem with death, it hurts the living.

Here are a few questions, I would like your opinion on. Just answering one is fine. Let's engage!
1.) What does death mean to you?
2.) Is there really any difference how death happens?
3.) What is the oddest experience with a death you've had?