Thursday, May 31, 2007

We all Will Die: The Ultimate Truth

I wondered what's the topic regarding Death doing here in my blog which is itself titled "Concepts of life". I went through one of my frnd's blog titled "We all will die" and I went through the comments in tht blog too. Everybody gave a different view about it.Those comments were true in themselves and false too coz most of them were driven by the context of the blog only and not by the real topic.Even I commented on it..but tht too was true and false in itself.

Where should we draw a line in between the true and false meanings of life and Death.Will we be able to draw it in the end or somewhere in middle.Here end means when we die n middle means when we are exactly equidistant from our birth and our day of death.Who knows when will we die, so finding the middle means to search for a ambigious thing, that exists but we dont see it, we go thru tht phase but we dont know abt its existence.

I would like to add two more question along with the questions my frnd asked.
Fourth and fifth are my question.
1)who are you?
2)Why are you here?
3)Where are you going?
4)Am I living the life as I desired or dreamt about?
5)Is my life worth something?

Life is a process to find the answers to above question and the moment before you die is when you get that answers.But that too in past tense, i.e who was I? why I have been here?Where I am now? Did I lived a life as I desired?Was my life a worth one? Each person can add different set of questions to this quest abt life, death and the journey from birth to the end called "Life".

What is Death?
Scietifically(Biologically) saying Complete Death happens when all the cells in the Human Body dies. Physically speaking itz a complete seizure of a persons ability to move or do anything..
Both these meanings can be understood but the third one:
Physcological meaning:A void created both physically n mentally by a person around you after he left. This is the most difficult definition of death. A person tends to behave as if he/she understood this one, but in real he/she still hopes tht, tht shudnt have happen. But the truth is it happened and he/she has to live with that truth all along his/her life. Eventhough science has reached a height attained never before, but still it cudnt have any concrete saying about after life concept other than that the body decays. No body knows wht will happen after Death and this question drives many persons crazy and make them afraid of dying. Everybody knows this body is mortal, but still we tend to get far from truth.

Recently I went through an article, not exactly an article, It was an thought of an person who knew he had only few days to live. He was Arthur Buchwald,a renowed American Humourist. He went to an Hospice in Washington during his last days of life.(Hospice care is palliative care given to individuals who are terminally ill with an expected survival of six weeks or less. The focus of hospice care is on meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the dying individual, while fostering the highest quality of life possible). He had an severe kidney ailment, both his kidney failed and he chose not to have dialisis again till he lives.During that stay he completed his book, "Too Soon To Say Goodbye." He described his decision to go on without dialisis as his "last hurrah," saying, "If you have to go, the way you go is a big deal." After his death his obituary read: "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." ,which he himself wrote.

He could have lived for long had he opted to live and the American Government would have gone to any extent to keep him alive. But he made the difference by choosing something that others dont tend to think about. Ya, he had an exception coz he knew he will be dying soon, but before he died he completed his book. He established himself when he lived and while he was dying.He choose and this made him one of his kind, He choose to live even when he was days away from death. Its us people who develop a cold feet on the very thought of death.

What to say, Itz for sure we all will die, but the way we lived will make the difference. Keep aside the fear of death and do whatever you like to do the most. I had put forward my view on death, and this might not be in conscience with every other individual. Everybody see life and death through a different perspective, different from each and every other person. So what's your view????

2 comments:

Shameer said...

Hi Sreeku,

Good work
I think you thought in detail before writing...
According to my perspective, i belive life here is just like an examination.
We have to study, prepare, act for better results..
:-)

www.openhat.org/blog

Anonymous said...

its very difficult to give a proper definiion or wat u say may be pharse which will suit to define the concepts of life.

when an child is born, its very difficult for him to adjust with the nature at first so he start weeping, finally he get adjusted.

when he grows stage by stage from his /her childhood to teenage, he again adjust with nature.

when he become an adult he is again adjusting to live for him and his family.

finally in his oldage, he sheds down his leaves as an old tree.
finally back to the place from were he has came.

at the last moment of life, he was unware about the concepts of life.

then how can i dear, define concepts of life.