Everybody
should to an eventual acceptance of death. After all, death is a completely
natural result of life. As life allows beings to exist in this world so too
must death exist in order to provide a release from our lifelong feast which
makes up our life. It is in this thought that our acceptance of this necessary
eventuality must come to pass in the lives of every living person. Whatsoever
is seen as unnatural is just nature taking its due course whether or not
medicine believes it to be a natural cause or not. When death takes a hold of
of person he or she shouldn't be so surprised that death is approaching the
door, rather if they had had their full of what life has to offer it's
perceived as a "euphoric" or "sweet release" otherwise it's
seen in a different manner. If we lived in a world without death it would be
catastrophic for everyone that would've lived in it. Without a way for humans
to naturally die there would be problems of overpopulation, food shortages, and
otherwise general mayhem. The only way to pass on would be to cause yourself to
die that of course if something that people wouldn't be too keen on doing.
Death
is an integral part of our lives. As we are born we are given the gift of life
and expected to utilize that gift along with its joys and sorrows to the
fullest. But, as soon as we are born we are that much closer to dying and
returning to where we started as nothing. We become scared of dying and leaving
behind everything because we don't know what's next. After death there is the possibility
that the afterlife described by the abrahamic religions was correct or it could
be that we are reincarnated into a new existent and will only reach nirvana
when we complete the final goal that is set for us to achieve. That reality
would be amazing if it were the absolute truth. It's more likely that what
awaits us after the grasp of death is absolute nothingness. As a person dies so
to do many others die as well death is no special thing and as such there is a
thing that we must ascertain to be not special. We know that to be the truth
after a certain point in our life, but we typically don't give that topic the
amount of attention it deserves. Without this attention there isn't a chance for the acceptance of death.
People
have a hard time accepting death when it affects them personally which brings
up the question that ask "why did they have to die?" which is kind of
silly because everybody has their time to pass on. Nobody can live forever and
long for death when they have done everything that they have desired to do.
When you begin to examine the questions of death and the reasons behind it you
begin to think philosophically minded questions. Then you begin to ask
questions you will search for the answers and sometimes never find them. The
philosopher tries to make sense of the questions even if they are always
fleeting
You said something that really struck me: "as soon as we are born we are that much closer to dying and returning to where we started as nothing." It's funny that two things that are complete opposites can be so intertwined. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about death and immortality, I find your essay very intriguing. However, don't you think it could be interesting if people could be immortal? That way, there would be no loss, everyone would be able to do everything on their bucket lists! But then again if people didn't die, would people really be born? Probably not. Life is one, big circle of cause and effect; thus, there has to be an order in which things happen. Mortality is just part of that cycle.
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