I was just thinking about this... If death is just being, not alive... And a rock is not alive... Is it dead? And therefor, are we dead before we live?
Are we dead before we live, or are we living before we are dead? Some words that express human thought i don't think help in learning about the situation because the ultimate answer won't ever be revealed. If the answer were there, we would have no point to life. To know the answer ceases are ability to search for something good, life would be pointless. Just look at it for how it is. Real death is the next step, the level in which no one understands tell its their time. Where ever we go after this life, i do believe their is no pain of any kind. Either something good will happen, or we just cease to exist, in total darkness.
A better question to ask yourself might have been "Do I smoke too much pot? Have I become a bad stereotype?"
yep. There's two levels of death.. the first one is the earthly definition where a thing must first be alive to become dead. the second level is the spiritual death, which nobody knows the definition of. Oh, and hello.