Death is the ultimate truth and one day, everyone has to die. For those who accept the fact, death is the threshold to a world more striking than the present one. For believers who confirm the next life but follow the path of debauchery and misguidance, death is the door to a perpetual gaol and to a lonely captivity where they will be kept aloof from all their loved ones. This is the way they will be punished for not practicising their belief. It is the door to eternal punishment for all the unbelievers who have spent their lives in revelry.
Human being seems to be genetically habituated to fear death. But, in reality it is life that establishes the very notion of fear and death. Fear is the outcome of time. An experience of the past becomes a caution for the future. We cannot even single out the fraction of second in which the caution transforms to fear. Death is something that is beyond time, so no rule of life is applicable to it. Death does not frighten us but our ways to relate to it do that.
The authentic instant metamorphosis from life to death is something that is not feared. But the course of action of death, before the immediate switch, is what causes angst in most of the people. In the realtively short period of time leading to death, a person thinks about the creepy evolution of death alongside his innate impulse for survival. In addition to this, a person may suffer from a lot of pain before the instant interval between life and death.
Death is feared because we think of it in terms of life. Old age, illness, misfortune and various other examples of death remind us of the frightful pain. The thought of being scared of the unknown is just because we are alive. Death is way different from life. No matter how hard you try to figure out the limits you will never find out what death is all about. Death is the ultimate truth, it is inevitable and beyond our understanding. We cannot change the fact that we will die one day. One way or the other we will go through the transition. So, we should try not to be afraid of the unseen. Rather, we can feed our mind with the truth of life and guide our emotion and intellect to face this very truth of life in a better way.
On a very practical note, we can say that death is necessary. If people lived forever, they would long for death being tired of living in aged bodies. Death makes room for regeneration and renewal. It should therefore be appreciated as a blessing.
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