Why do we have to die?

Death..... and then?

Why do we have to die?

We are inclined to answer this question by saying that the strength of the body is used up and exhausted. We  come  into  existence,  grow  and flourish, reach our high point which is followed by aging and gradual reduction of our vitality.  Consequently,  dying is  something very natural.  But  should we not recognize that the psychological and spiritual development of people is not necessarily affected to the same extent by this process of deterioration? There are people who are physically sick and old, but remain inwardly very young, awake and full of energy. Death is not just a chemical and physiological process; humans do not die like plants or animals.

The Scriptures often relate death to sin, which disturbs human life from the beginning. Sin came into the world through one man and death through sin..." (Romans 5,12).  When we believe,  we see  God  as the giver of life. In this view, interference with the relationship to God  means decreasing life and ultimately death. This is not to say that without sin man would not have died. But he would probably not have experienced death as a catastrophe and senseless collapse but as change, fulfillment and the culmination of life.

In God's concept of the world, death is certainly an intruder, an enemy of man (1 Corinthians 15,26). It should not have been and will not last forever. Our aversion to it is correct. Death opposes most deeply our longing for life.

Death - the gate to life

Many see death as a wall on which life fails irrevocably. A future beyond death?  Doubts  and  objections to this will never stop. Some suspect that  the hope for equalization and balance in the beyond is just fraud to console simple people and divert  from the miseries in this world. In brief, death is the end of everything.
Something within us pushes beyond  total annihilation.  Therefore,  many  people wish to continue living in their works or their children. The Pharaohs in Egypt built pyramids to make themselves  unforgettable.  Others  work  on  some  great piece of art or "make history" so that they  will  not  disappear  from  the  memory of mankind. But all this is  merely a  shadow,  since the person does not live in these memories which are only a resonance and an echo.