Is it possible to ever be secure and escape from death? Death is inevitable, it will never be possible for a human being or any life matter in fact, that can live forever. Although we can not be safe from death however, we can feel piece of mind with death and be okay with the fact that someday, somehow, we will die. When people think of death they get scared. This is mostly because they see death as if it is always murder. Death does not always have to be murder. It can come as a peaceful and happy thing and not always scary and a violent death. Not everyone dies from murder or a scary death. In some way, I hope people can take comfort in knowing that “on the night we die a thousand others go with us, among them wise men and fools and such low forms of life as shepherds or maidservants”(Oxford Book of Death pg 21).
We may begin to fear death as time goes on and we get older and older, fall in LOVE, and begin to start a family with children. Death can be a scary thing, but it can also be something that creates us to live life as though it was our last day, for we do not know the day we will die. Those who decide to look over death as though it is not there, cannot fully live their lives because they will not accept the fact that someday their life will come to an end leaving everything behind. “He who pretends to look on death with out fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, with out which the entire human species would soon be destroyed” (Jean Jacques Rousseau). Everyone dies, and everyone is afraid of death at one point. Hopefully, someday, everyone is able to not fear death, but live life without any fear. With fear in life, there is no way a person can be truly happy.
Of course it is scary to think that someday I will be burned to ashes or sewed up and glued together so my family can say one last goodbye to me only to watch me go six feet underground in a coffin nailed shut never to be opened again. However, I recognize death as it is. It is death whether I believe in an afterlife or not. Fortunately for myself, I do have faith and I have my own beliefs in what will happen to me once I die. For those people who want to live forever, why would you want to live past all your friends and family. There will be so much heartache and sadness in that persons life with all of those deaths there will be no point in living life after so much death.
In Hinduism, the Hindu’s look at life and death with happiness. They have no fear in death and accept what is a part of every life. In India, death is everywhere. Dead bodies lay in the rivers and streets in every ones way. There is no way they can escape death and it is known by even the youngest children. It seems to be that Hinduism and Christianity have some of the same stories or beliefs. One story would be the story of Nachiketas and Yama. This story is very similar to the story of Isaac and Abraham where the son has accepted the fact that their father needs a sacrifice to be given up but with no lambs/ young calf.
With Hinduism, comes different beliefs. Reincarnation is something that is not taken lightly within the religion. They believe that once a person dies, they come back to life either in another human form or some other kind of living creature on the Earth. Death is something that cannot be taken lightly whether you believe you will come back to life or live in some sort of after life.
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