I begin with this quote by Emily Dickinson, because I think is the simpler way to define what death is; you as a person can adjust everything but death. You do not know when is going to be your time to die, you just die. Like Savater
said, there is nothing more personal than death, because is destined to each and every one of us. We cannot escape death; it is going to happen at the time that was destined to you, it can be as insignificant as going down the street and getting run over by a car. Some people say, they have tricked death by surviving an airplane crash, or a sinking boat; but actually it was just not the time for them to die.
If we know that we are going to die, why is dying so scary to us. Maybe is because we do not know what is after our time in this world. Maybe because we are so comfortable living out here that we do not want to leave this place, these are some of my theories by which we are afraid to die. But at the end, we all will have to die. This is what makes us human, this is what humanizes us; at the end we accept that we are going to die and by this we enjoy each last event even more.
I agree with Bernardo we will die some day and we dont know when, there is not going to be some one telling us when are we going to die or where we just have to live our life as we suppos to and when we die it was the time and day were it was ment to happen.
ResponderEliminarBernardo, great post i totally agree. I too think that the reason why people are scared of death is because they don't know what happens afterwards, but even so, I think that if you think about it there is no point on worrying about it because like you said, it's going to happen and there's nothing you can do, the best thing to do is to live life to the fullest while you can.
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