Do You Respect "Death" ( Archived) (71)

Off-the cuff, first response is no, no 'respect' for Death.
To paraphrase Orson Wells from his role in the film The Long Hot Summer, Death is an eventuality which will eventuate at some point in all our lives, wanted, unwanted, sought or not. It is that simple.
Do I heed, or have regard to, or of, attention to Death? Well, I have no desire or need to either take my own life, or someone else's under what are regarded as 'normal' circumstances of everyday life. Also, if I see someone who is in peril of imminent death by accident or misfortune and I happen to be in a position to help them survive it, then fine, I will at the very least try and if unsuccessful...c'est vie. Death is busy enough, it doesn't hurt to 'cheat' Death at all.Most of us would cheat Death out without a second thought...
Life, as many medieval poets have put it also as in the film The Seventh Seal, Life is a walk with Love and Death, arm-in-arm; the penultimate image is of two young lovers strolling in and of kissing in the middle of an ancient cemetery...
What I do find fascinating however about Death is in the above quote from druidess6308...the 'rest break' between our lives.
From all that I have gathered from research projects dealing with the origins, developments all our ancient Religions is that there had never been any before Christianity that has ever rejected the concept of multiple lives. When 'reincarnation' was dismissed out of Christianity by the Councils of Nicaea, it still left enough of that ancient belief very ambivalent in terms of total rejection. What exactly was changed was reincarnation from a purely terrestrial form to a 'spiritual' form. Countless research projects have only found more ambivalent inconsistencies. The more research projects on the actual cases of claimed re-incarnations of individuals that I have worked on; the more books published with well documented cases that have been published, all seem to conclusively point to the reality of re-incarnation. My only problem with it is the rather strange patterns of its affirmation in cases. We do not know what happens during 'the breaks' if we are to learn from our past lives and any/all our mistakes, we end up coming back without any conscious memories of what not to do again, nor of any penances that we must pay to satisfy our 'karmic' debts...we have no clue, whereas, those that do and come back with very clear and detailed memories are seemingly in particular geographical areas of the world, India(Far East) and Ireland...(????) Unfair! No known reasons that make sense...The cases are all thoroughly investigated, turned inside out etc. Most have indeed, a genetic/ blood-line connection to the families concerned, especially in most cases in India. So far no coherent theories as to the various why's. Fascinating...for the nihilists among us, remember the old motto of the Spanish Foreign Legion: 'Long Live Death!' Now there was an altitude!