“People fear death even more than pain. It’s
strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of
death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” – Jim Morrison
The ending chapter of Human development
life-span view ended on the topic of “the final passage” death. Our book
followed the ideal stages of life, prenatal devolvement through old age and now
death. Like stated in the podcast, death is something that can happen at any
time, at any age. It may seem like stating the obvious but I think that many
people believe that if a person dies before they hit old age they suffered a “
pre mature death” or that they were robbed of their “time”. Yet no one is guaranteed
any amount of time in this life, a good reminder to live a full, happy life
daily.
Death is such a fascinating topic to me, and
has been for many years now. I have
spent many years battling the topic of religion, many years researching and
looking into different types of beliefs. I found that death and beliefs of afterlife
play a major role in majority of religions and how the follows of those beliefs
live their day to day life. I took note that despite many religious beliefs
that majority of people fear the inevitable, most humans fear or previously
have feared death. Even after reading the ten different ways death can be viewed,
most of them have fearful or negative associations; this seems true across many cultures and
religions. Death doesn’t have to be a
bad event, or a sad event. I have been to funerals that were tragic and heart
wrenching, where you left the event sick and unsettled. I have been to funerals
that were, do I dare say happy and joyful, leaving after celebrating a loved one’s
life with laughter and love. It is all about peoples perspectives; they say
life is what you make it, why can’t death be what you make it too? After all,
it just might be a friend.
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