What colour do you associate with death?

[Nero]

What colour do you associate with death?
Death is Black to me, as I thought it was to everyone, but recently I've heard some say White is the colour of Death.
What colour is death?

[RebeccaFog]

different cultures use different colors to represent death.  I think in the Jet Lee movie, HERO, they used white and maybe even red.  It's a Chinese film.


   Death is the color of earthworms to me.  It squiggles too.

[tinkerbell]

White, peaceful, noiseless, melodrama- free

tink

[Nero]

Death is the color of earthworms to me.  It squiggles too.

Care to elaborate on that, Reebs?

White, peaceful, noiseless, melodrama- free

tink

Interesting. That's what prompted the question - some say death is white. White does represent peace.

[katia]

speaking from a western perspective, black is generally equated with death. black (the entire grayscale actually) is a tint, not a color. so death imo has no color.

[RebeccaFog]

    Death is brown & black & is as alive as the cosmos.  There is no such thing as complete stillness even in death.
   

[Jeannette]

I'm told black and dark colors, but I'm going to say white as I'm reaching the pearly gates.

[Christo]

sky color.  like light blue.

[Butterfly]

They say that death is the beginning of an after life.  So since green is my favourite colour, I think green makes sense.

[Jay]

Black is the colour that I wold associate with death

[evelynaGR]

Black is too sexy to be the death colour!!!

The colours evolving bad feelings for me are: purple - dark magenta - pale violet red

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[NickSister]

Black for me represents a nothingness, so for me black is too bleak a color for death. Maybe it works for the living in that things are (usually) bleak when someone passes away. But when I die I hope It is represented by white. White light is made up of all the visible wavelengths so it is a complete thing. When I die I hope to become part of this completeness.

(actually I'm hoping Dr Who will turn up in his Tardis..so blue would be good too)

[Cindi Jones]

Light is what you will "see" as your brain is starved of oxygen.  So that's the color I'm going with.... "light".

Cindi

[Blanche]

Yellow like the sun.  One of the best books on colour preference and emotional states, if you can find a copy, is "The Luscher Colour Test", based on the work of Professor Luscher at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

If you do find a copy make sure it stll has the two pages of coloured patches so you can do the self-test.

[Jaiden]

I associate black, white and gold with death.

[buttercup]

I associate black with death, like walking into a dark tunnel of complete blackness.  White also represents peace to me, so that is the light eventually at the end of the long walk through the tunnel to eternity.

(actually I'm hoping Dr Who will turn up in his Tardis..so blue would be good too)

I love Dr Who!! I'd hitch a ride on the Tardis any day. 

[King Malachite]

Black, grey, white, and red