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Debate Score:11
Arguments:10
Total Votes:12
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Do you consider death as an escape? Why?

Yes

Side Score: 5
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No

Side Score: 6

Yes, it is an escape, from something, to nothing. It's an end to emotion. Doesn't have to be a good thing, in fact, emotions are generally positive.

Side: yes
1 point

It is an escape from the material world to the state of being thereafter. I am not sure if the word 'escape' is the right one though, perhaps instead transition as death, for me, is a transition (whether good or bad).

Side: yes
1 point

Yes - in some cases it definitely can be argued that it is a form of escape. By people who are suffering heaps of pain, cancer sufferers, and in some cases, emotional pain.

Side: yes
1 point

In a way. Some people are upset inside and have a terrible life and they might feel that the only way out of that is to be up in heaven with God. On the other hand, a lot of people have great lives so they wouldn't consider death an escape.

Side: yes

Escape: breaking free from confinement. I don't any have personal experience, but in death, becoming nothing? That would be pretty confining.

Side: No
1 point

To equate it to an escape it seems you would need to compare death to something... Not even necessarily religion but even just a dark room or an "idea" of nothingness.

But in that I think it is nothingness in reality, not an idea of nothingness. It is neither confining nor an escape... it's not anything.

I suppose you could define life as something without choice, thus you have an ability to "escape" it. That's actually necessary. Part of an escape requires there is something to escape from.

The other half of that would be that upon escape there is greater "free will" or something in place of something at the very least. Again though "nothing" does not even meet that definition.

Side: No
1 point

I do not consider death an escape, because to escape, you must first be held against your will. In being alive, if you can willingly leave at any time that you wish. Yes, because humans are self healing beings, this causes some controversy, due to the fact that your body, if possible, will 'heal' and keep you alive (that keeps you alive, and you have been unable to 'escape'), but, if you wish to die and you take your own life, it is very much possible, to die at your own free will. If you can die at your own free will, you have escaped nothing, you have willingly ended your own life.

Side: No
1 point

maybe you'll be able to escape from sufferings, but you'll miss the chance to feel happiness which may come upon you...

Side: almost neutral
1 point

No. Nobody knows what happens after death, maybe it's nothingness, maybe we go to purgery. To be an escape (assuming your escape is to something better), death would have to be better than life, and for all we know, it could be much worse than life.

To jump into something as unreversable and terminal as death is too much to justify the cause as an escape. However everybody's situation in life, view of life and their view of escape are different, so really everybody will have a different view to this question, I think it's fairly personal.

Side: No
1 point

well if there is no afterlife death is not an escape but an imprisonment. you are trapped to the confinement of a non existent void. you cease to exist. if there is an afterlife it is an escape from suffering(unless you got to hell where in that case it would be another prison)

Side: No