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Is Death considered as One’s End or Beginning? - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Is Death considered as One’s End or Beginning? 2022-10-05 428 Views Resurrection , death , Reality of death , Martyrdom Why Do Most People Fear Death? Death has always been imagined to be a great, frightening monster and just thinking about it takes away the sweetness of life.

Not only do they fear the word ‘death’ but they also hate the word ‘cemetery’ and they try to forget about its basic nature by lighting and brightening the graves and tombs. Contents Why Do Most People Fear Death? 1. The Interpretation of Death as Annihilation 2. Black Files Two Different Points of View The effects of this fear are clearly visible in the various literatures of the world where it is expressed as ‘the monster of death ’, ‘the jungle of death’, ‘the death knoll’, etc.

When they want to mention the name of a dead person so that the person addressed is not panic, they use sentences like ‘far from here, ‘may I be struck dumb’, ‘there be seven mountains between’, and ‘may his dust give you life’ in an attempt to create a wall between the person who is listening and death. But we have to analyze how this fear developed the human being.

Why is there a group, as opposed to the understanding of the majority of the people, who not only do not fear death but thinking about it makes them smile and welcome an honourable death?

We read in history that whereas one group were looking for the elixir of life, another group lovingly moved towards the fronts of jihad, laughed at the image of death and they were in anticipation of the day when they would join their Beloved and today, also, in the battlefronts of truth against falsehood, we see this very truth whereby they move with their life in their hands, towards martyrdom. The basic reason for this fear based on research and study is simply one of two things: 1.

The Interpretation of Death as Annihilation Human beings always flee from non-existence and from disease because it means a lack of good health; afraid of the darkness because it means a lack of light. They fear poverty because it means the destruction of wealth. They even sometimes fear an empty home and an empty wilderness. Why? Because nobody is there! They even fear a dead person.

They are not prepared to spend the night in a room with a dead person whereas when that person was alive, they did not fear him.