Comments on: Death is Not Life’s Best Invention

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:54:12 +0000

Well, Jobs was a Buddhist. Buddhists believe in reincarnation and that nirvana can be reached the more one meditates – the more one focuses inward. An interesting interview on “issues, etc.” deals with Jobs’ Buddhism and how it related to his pursuits with Apple.

Steve Jobs was a brilliant visionary in business and technology. He wasn’t a theologian.

By: Tom H

Tom H — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:24:25 +0000

“Most of it could be reduced to a Budweiser commercial: ‘You only go around once in life; grab all the gusto you can get.’”

I suppose it could be reduced to a shill for the self-proclaimed King of Beers now, but this line was from the Schlitz beer campaign in the 1960s.

It is, however, comforting to know that a pastor would not know this. And, of course, it speaks volumes of me, pedant that I am, that I do:)

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:58:43 +0000

Death is many things. It is, for instance, an incentive not to put everything off to tomorrow — like repentence and good deeds.

By: Mike Melendez

Mike Melendez — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:19:41 +0000

John Donne's Death be not proud has always said the most to me having attended funerals in the last few years for close family member.

By: Gail Finke

Gail Finke — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:15:34 +0000

“It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.”

What a charming sentiment. Chesterton and others have remarked on how remarkable it is that we all (well, with the exception of Steve Jobs, I guess) feel outraged by the idea of death. We feel as if we are NOT SUPPOSED to die. We don’t, as a general rule, feel as if we are just something to be cleared away to make way for the new. Atheists like to think of this as some sort of psychological blip, but I think it’s more likely that it is true. We are not supposed to die. Something is wrong, something is broken right in the heart of everything, and we know it. Every other drive and need we have corresponds to something real, why shouldn’t this?