Life and Death

Death is inevitable and yet we hardly think about it. That’s the mystery of life. If we started brooding over death, life will stop. Death is as important as life. Yet life begins practically one way. In a mysterious way following the natural process two mortals unite and a life begins. We cry at birth and that crying is an essential signal to make a statement that a new life has arrived. Yet death comes in many forms. Death doesn’t happen as a result of an act of love. It is a lonely, singular process. Whether aging, accident, stupid man-made war, cancerous cells taking over your body and brain, blocked arteries, wiring in the brain getting jumbled up causing unstoppable tremor, or forgetting everything you knew, including your loved ones, in your life long journey because some how your memory cells got erased or became inaccessible – in one way or another you die alone with pain and suffering. You are the lucky one if you get to go in peace and quietly in your sleep. So, life and death are the beginning and the end of a journey for an individual, although the end is generally not a happy ending. If it is a consolation – your genes continue its journey through another carrier (body). In that sense, there is no beginning and there is no end. Life in a full circle from a different perspective!