In Death, We Live; In Life, We Die

“Good Deeds” will be rewarded and “Bad Deeds” shall be punished by the Universe – this belief grips people and forces them to critic if they are making the right decision. It’s a comforting thought that evaluates people’s choices without issuing a reward or judgment.

Improvements in medical science, institutionalised health care and alternative medicine has resulted in increase in life-spans and reduction in sudden deaths. Old age is a reality. Old people need support, education, and companionship during times of high stress. Above all, old people need end-of-life care as well.

We celebrate life and living, and rightly so, because span of life and the joys of living, both are quite tentative and finite. We see a birth as an uplifting, optimistic event because it’s a new life, but it’s exactly the same thing as death, when we are willing to look at death as the freedom from all sort of insecurities over our choices and decisions, thoughts like “I didn’t do enough or I wasn’t good at anything,” our failures and achievements, “Good Deeds” and “Bad Deeds” and in death lies the beginning of a new legacy.

People leave behind legacies – including such simple things as – things they collected, community service they did, family recipes they mastered, incidents they narrated, mischief and pranks they enjoyed, the progeny, and so many more.

Celebrating death is not everyone’s cup of tea and very few people tend to be comfortable with a positive approach to death. A lot of that is hesitance about death, not wanting to confront their own mortality, and thinking, “It’s just going to be depressing.”

Inevitability of death has been flagged but not the fact that we start dying from the day of our birth. Death is the end-point of the process of dying. Death freaks us out because it’s such a final event, but the process of dying really intimidates people. When society gets more comfortable with the dying process, death will make more sense.

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