If you are asked to write about death, what will you write about? Will it be about some of our loved ones or some that are close to us that have died? You ask some rhetorical questions like why do we have to die, why can't we live on, why is life full of sorrows?
Yet no matter how these questions are always been asked, it always seems to be that no one can provide an all round answers to them. People still die everyday, every hours and minutes. Every living beings or things on earth will face death eventually, maybe that's the ultimate destiny of all living.
Death is not relative as it doesn't accrue to one set or tribe of people, death happens to all irrespective of race, color, religion or country. Death is no respecter of anyone, wealthy people are dying same as the poor, no one is exempted. No matter how long one may live, even if you are a centenarian you will still die. Life is beautiful yet temporary.
We are often overwhelmed with sorrows and anguish when we lose some of our loved ones, we feel loneliness and sadness, you wondered if life is meaningful after all. If it's possible, we want to live forever with our loved ones around us and to become immortal. Is there any purpose in death?
"It is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is a party, because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all" Ecclesiastes 7:2. Death helps us to realize how short life is and how we should live life accordingly. Permit me to say, the fear of death has make many people live in the way they should. Trust me people will become reckless and live anyhow if there's nothing like death, there will be no definite purpose and plans and life without a purpose is not worth living
Death reminds us that our time is short and we have to do something worthwhile before we are long gone.
We die obviously because that's how we have been designed, because that's how everything is meant to be, because life itself is ephemeral. Death helps us to live with this truth and only the wise will be prepared for it.
But is death the end of life or a means to another life, life after death.
This belief is very much controversial as many atheists does not believe in life after death but the facts are there to prove it. We have heard of people who died and came back to life to share their testimonies of another life form in heaven. I was surfing through the internet some years ago and I came across the story of some Siberian Scientists who might have dung deep a hole that leads to where they reportedly called the hell of the damned because they heard terrifying screams of people for about 17 seconds before they couldn't hear it again, not to talk of the immense heat.
This is to show that death is not an end to life, infact it's an avenue to eternity as portrayed by the Bible. That's why christians do find solace in the fact that their dead ones will be unified with them on the last day.
It's only wise to brace ourselves for death. A wise man will prepare and put everything in place because he doesn't know when his time will come. Live life in such a way that you will be remembered for good. Life should be planned that's why you see people planning for the last stage of their life while they are still young, you see many people planning and securing the future for their children before they die, so that they don't die and their children have to live in penury. Either way, life is all about planning. Death occurs faster and happen randomly. No one knows who is next. The best way to live life is to acknowledge God and have plans for your life. Everyday day reckons to the day of sleep.
Take a decision today, retrace your steps and start living right, we can't immortalize our physical bodies, but we can immortalize our names.
Any thoughts on this, share with me.
Nice post