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Photo by S0ulsearching "We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."
- David Sarnoff
As of today's statistics the death rate still stands at 100%.
Being that this is a fact, why do people still fear death, after all it's only a natural occurrence correct?
The reasons to fear death are many, but the most common reasons given by healthy people are
1. Fear of the unknown - People may ask themselves about after life. Is there punishment? Is there heaven?
- David Sarnoff
As of today's statistics the death rate still stands at 100%.
Being that this is a fact, why do people still fear death, after all it's only a natural occurrence correct?
The reasons to fear death are many, but the most common reasons given by healthy people are
1. Fear of the unknown - People may ask themselves about after life. Is there punishment? Is there heaven?
2. Fear of giving up all that we have worked to gather in our lifetime.
3. Death is a painful process.
4. Not wanting to let go.
5.The process of dying helps form our fears of death.
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
- Elie Weisel
My own personal attitude towards death is one of peaceful apprehension if you will.
Death is going to come to us as sure as I am writing this article at this moment, but the fear of death can be wiped away under the rug with a little retrospect, and a bit of logic and emotion.
1.Death is not painful - After scouring the Internet for months I cannot find a single article relating to the "pain of death."
Sure dying can be painful, as I experienced first hand while taking care of a close relative with terminal cancer.
Note the operative word here, "dying," and not "death."
As sick as my brother-in-law was never once did he complain of the pain or fear.
The pain part I can attribute to the morphine medication that was being administered to him, but his complete lack of fear of his impending death still has me baffled to this day. He didn't freak out, and he never complained, and the night that he died he did so peacefully in the comfort of his own bed with his trusted dog next to him.
2.Death is the ultimate healing - Assuming that you have a faith that you adhere to, and are spiritual in nature death is always referred to as a healer, and here are the reasons why:
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
- Elie Weisel
My own personal attitude towards death is one of peaceful apprehension if you will.
Death is going to come to us as sure as I am writing this article at this moment, but the fear of death can be wiped away under the rug with a little retrospect, and a bit of logic and emotion.
1.Death is not painful - After scouring the Internet for months I cannot find a single article relating to the "pain of death."
Sure dying can be painful, as I experienced first hand while taking care of a close relative with terminal cancer.
Note the operative word here, "dying," and not "death."
As sick as my brother-in-law was never once did he complain of the pain or fear.
The pain part I can attribute to the morphine medication that was being administered to him, but his complete lack of fear of his impending death still has me baffled to this day. He didn't freak out, and he never complained, and the night that he died he did so peacefully in the comfort of his own bed with his trusted dog next to him.
2.Death is the ultimate healing - Assuming that you have a faith that you adhere to, and are spiritual in nature death is always referred to as a healer, and here are the reasons why:
-Death is painless.
-All of your worries are forever over.
-All of your pains cease to exist whether physical or emotional.
-The promises of heaven, and an afterlife in paradise overshadow anything that this puny world has to offer.
-It is a natural process, and one that must be embraced for what it is.
-You may die peacefully in your sleep, thereby negating the years spent worrying about the day and time of your death, and you never even experienced the conscious act of dying.
Remember that dying isn't so hard, its the living that is hard when life seems to be weighted with so many failures and disappointments at every turn. Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live. To quote Oliver Reeds character Proximo in the movie Gladiator, "We mortals are but shadows and dust Maximus, shadows and dust."
“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”
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