DEATH
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF DEATH?
Death comes with a lot of meanings in our mind when we ask about it. It might be something about religion or science where we know that both of these are contradicting each and one another’s standpoint. There are a lot of answers you could explore once you have experienced or witnessed death, but what truly death means?
Personally speaking, for me death can be compared to our future, it is unpredictable. It could happen right now, or maybe in a minute or in an hour. There are lots of people who are afraid of dying wherein they spend their precious times enjoying the rest of their lives, planning for the future for their loved ones who would be left. Death is frightening just like what others said, but one should not be afraid of it if you know where you will go afterlife. Questions have filled my mind right now just like what death brings you or where will an individual go after he dies something like that. I heard about the science’s definition of death, it’s all about the ‘shutdown’ of our body organs in functioning but other people says that death is when you have already finished your missions here on earth which is something like to inspire, to cause change, or to make people realize something. Death is a broad term, it might be a single, five letter word but consist of different meanings and so I couldn’t define it by simply stating my belief because people would contradict my own definition but to narrow down those numerous definitions, I would simply define it as “end of our life”. We have given this life with a purpose or mission, we could be an instrument to cause change for a specific situation. But when death arrives, we have no choice but to meet it, there is no another road we can go to turn away from death, but it would just keep on chasing us wherever we go, unless He would give us another path to go in, in exchange, we must do good and change for the better.
To conclude, life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. We should respect each and everyone’s belief and let life and death guide them to the right path. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. And to end this, death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
I was asked before if what is the purpose of being born if you will lose it?
People are always asking other people about their purpose in life. We are definitely unique with each other in terms of physical appearance, goals and paths we are dreaming of. But what would be the purpose of being born if you will die anyway?
There is no objective point to our existence. People die with different reasons, age and place. That's why I’ve said that death is like our future, it is unpredictable. But some of us are deciding not to do a specific task in a specific situation because they end up thinking of dying eventually, the same as why people are eating if they will end up being hungry again. Eating has different reasons, we are eating to have energy in accomplishing tasks, the same as our existence, we don’t live for just a single purpose or reason. I would take a single seed as a representation, as it grows every minute, hour or day, it filters out the air for us to breathe a fresh air, as it grows further, it would protect us from direct sunlight, give us a fruit to eat, dried leaves to be used as fertilizer, its body to make papers, or could be used to build a house so basically, we might be a single person but have different purposes. In applying to the question, you will not die without leaving a legacy; it could be a reminder, inspiration, to cause change and so on. Life is a chance to experience living here but that life could not assure you to live your life the way other people do because it has its own limitations, end, or expiration in other words because of an unknown reason.
To conclude, do not judge or doubt your existence here. Just be thankful that you had given a chance to be alive and experience living here despite bad things happening to you. Everything has a reason, just go with the flow of life.