1. Is death the end? Or the transition to something else?
Death is definitely not the end. Physically speaking, after you die and you are buried you become insects and bacteria. If you are cremated, you turn into carbon dioxide, other gases and carbon which turn into plants. So you are recycled in the physical sense. Spiritually speaking everyone and everything is impermanent - change is the only constant of nature and of reality.
2. Does death influences us in our decissions or actions? Until what point are us shaped by the signal of death?
There doesn’t seem to be any link here. Death comes at the end of this particular life, but no-one knows when or how the body dies.
3. Is there a meaning of death? Or just we are trying to find a meaning in death to give sense to our lifes?
Death has the same profundity as life. Without death there can be no new life.
4. Does death makes us equal? At what point death makes all humans the same, in despite of their social, economical, cultural positions?
Death is certainly the great equalizer. A sinner and a saint both have to die someday. A king and a pauper will both face death no matter how rich or how poor. Even a mineral and an animal face death and transformation in similar ways.
5. How can we trascend death and left something of us living forever?
Only memories remain. If we happen to do something worth remembering within our few decades here, then we might live in the memories of future humans. Otherwise you live and die anonymously like most of humanity.
6. Since old cultures, there existed fear of death, then cult of death. Accepting death can makes us free of this kind of fear? Or just it ties us to an inevitable destiny? Are we free with death? Or just total slaves?
It really depends on how you look at death. Tradition and religiosity does not determine whether one fears death. One has to truly understand death in order to not be fearful of it.
7. What is death? Punishment, suffering, destiny, escape? Just a natural part of the life cycle?
Death is not punishment by any stretch of the imagination. It comes about from a very simple equation of nature which cannot ever be transgressed. If you are alive today then you will die someday, if you are ‘dead’ minerals today then you might come together to form life one day. In either case change is inevitable.
8. Understanding death can make us to understand why to live? How?
Understanding death makes us realize the impermanence of being. This realization can be very liberating. So instead of being fearful, one can live one’s life to the fullest knowing that this form will have to end some day.
9. At what point death gets function as universal balance?
If things that are alive keep piling up without ever dying, there will be no place or opportunity for new life to appear. So it is important that living things die in order that other things might come to life in their places. Similarly, after stars go supernova and ‘die’, thousands of other stars are then created in the cloud left behind by the older star. And this process of life and death has been going on for billions of years.
10. Can we finally understand death? Or it is a eternal mistery?
We have a good understanding of death - both physically and spiritually. It’s the ‘after-death’ part that most people aren’t so sure about. And because we can’t go into the future and come back to the past with information from the future - it will forever remain a mystery.
11. What would be a good way to die?
Inhalation of carbon monoxide = easy, painless and euphoric death
12. Did you ever got a near death experience?
Yes, almost fell a mile below into the Grand Canyon in Arizona once. Bungy jumping or sky-diving still give me this feeling I had when I almost fell into the canyon, an extreme sensation that cannot be described in words. I’ve also gotten into some serious vehicular accidents but survived them with injuries.
13. Did you ever got some paranormal experience, that make you think there are more than meets the eyes?
I have never had any paranormal experience but I have had chemical-induced psychedelic experiences and meditation-induced spiritual experiences. So yes, I have to conclude that there is more that exists than can be seen with the eye. Additionally there are aspects of reality that can never be fully described using language or detected by a physical device or our doors of perception.
14. What is death metal? Why do you play death metal?
Death Metal is a complex collection of many different styles of music. Generalizing it massively - Death Metal is a genre of music that has a heavy sound typified by growling vocals (sometimes screeches), fast double-bass drums (sometimes slow and sludgy), palm-muted chugging guitars (but sometimes tremolo picked), deep thumping bass and it typically deals with topics such as death, gore, violence and war. I play it because I have always loved it, i grew up on it and I was inspired by early Death Metal bands. The lyrical aspect of Death Metal also fascinated me early on.
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