Our primary
nature of humans is the repression of death brought by the fear of death
because we do not understand what happens after death. So as time has passed we
have put much effort in and thought into how not to die! We have for years and
continue to attempt to develop ways to keep from dying, mostly from illnesses.
That is why we are living longer than our ancestors did and why the average 60
year old takes at least three prescription medications a day to continue
functioning and prolong the idea of death for that much longer. This way of
aging is mostly concentrated in our Western civilization. Some tend to think
that from the moment we are born we being to die. Scientifically our amount of
carbon begins to diminish the moment we die and so the body can give count of
how long we had been dead to the corner examiner, as well as the calcification
of our bones could tell that same corner how old we were at the point of death.
The reason we cannot experience absolute death is because humans cannot
experience consciously the absoluteness of death. There is death of the body
which the priest tried to preserve back in ancient Egyptian times and we in the
western civilization try to prolong. What about the death of the soul or
consciousness? Does that exist? So if absolute death is not obtainable where
then do we continue this realization? Some say heaven or the underworld, or
like others we are our souls continue in a different form. As a young adult I can tell you that death is
a kind of fear of mine, not so much because of the unknown after death but
mostly for the future of my children, who would take care of them especially my
special needs son and how that will impact them. On the other hand worked many
years in a convalescent home, long term care facility, and there I would speak
with people that were ready to go. They would tell me that they were done with
the pains of this world. They would express that they had either a good life,
hard life or bad rough life and at the end it would be the same, now I’m just
tired. They had their memories and were ready to rest. The manifestation of
transformation from life to death experience could be taken differently depending
on the age or physical state that individual has. If we do not appreciate time
as we have it now and look at death as the end of our lives then we life as
those who have no hope in what is to come after, even though no one has come
back from the dead to tell us what that hope could be, or has there?
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