My Belief about Death

Death is the only painful thing that can make a generation cry. The only thing that can sting hard and comes unexpectedly. It can't be seen; if not, a lot would be at war with it if they saw it from a distance. It has the power to create equality between the rich and the poor. It can never go hungry for a day but works hard on finding its food, which is humans.

The rich and the poor fear this thing, as it's always the end to a person's life, wealth, success, and the like. Last week I saw two posters of people who died, and on one poster, I saw "Painful Exit" while the other had "Glorious Exit" written on it. Both imply something, and this would be extensively discussed in the course of this content.

Some people ask, Is death a human, a spirit being, a natural phenomenon, a spiritual element, or a thing? We'll know in the course of this post by my answering the below questions.

To explain this, I'll illustrate for clarity. Imagine you're playing with sharp objects like a knife with another, and you're fighting with the knife. Everyone knows this knife is very dangerous and can injure one if care is not taken. In the course of your play, your opponent strikes your finger with the knife, and it cuts; you're injured, right? You've lost a finger, and you'll definitely feel pain.

That's the result of playing with that knife, and it can't be reversible. So in your mind now, you'll know that the result of playing with sharp objects like knives can never be a good thing. Similarly, death is a cessation, which means result or the act of stopping.

It's the discontinuity of life that occurs when bodily functions like the heart stop pumping blood, the lungs and nose stop respiration, the brain has damage, and the like. It's a natural process that started thousands of years ago. It's actually the opposite of life. So death means the discontinuity of life to me, and biblically, it's the result of sin, as the wages sin pays are death.

We are imperfect humans with inherited sin, so when we die, it's as a result of the sin we inherited from our first parents, who died when they grew old. I see death as a natural process, more like the result of working is salary. At the end of the month, you get your salary. When you stop living, you die, and this happens naturally or artificially once there's a malfunction in organs and bodily functions that's responsible for our breathing.

Once breathing is stopped In humans, I don't think there's any form of life. In the Bible, when God used the dust of the ground to create man, he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and Man became a living person. So I see it as a natural process not just in humans but in all living things.

In secondary school, the end product of a living thing is death, from the acronym we were taught on characteristics of living things. MR NIGER + CAD which reflects the D as death.

This is more religious, and most people have different beliefs on this because of what they've been taught in their denominations, come to think of it. You have a candle that keeps burning with the aid of the cloth-like material fuelled by the candle wax. When this candle is mistakenly blown off and the fire is out, do you think the flame goes somewhere safe or better?

The flame ceases to exist and doesn't go anywhere. The originator of life has the answer if everything ends when we die.The first man and woman were made out of dust and were cursed that they'll toil till the day they return to the ground, for out of dust man was taken and to dust man will return. It further states in the holy book that the dead are conscious of nothing and that there's no knowledge, wisdom, or planning in the grave when one dies.

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So initially, this is the state of the death. When we die, we become dust and go nowhere. If Lazarus, a friend of Jesus, went somewhere safe, would Jesus bother bringing him back to life when he knows Lazarus is somewhere safe or probably in heaven?

He won't, and it would have made no sense bringing Lazarus from where he was, putting him into the group again, and then bringing him back to life. So humans are conscious of nothing and cease to exist when they die, but it doesn't end there.

It doesn't end there because there's hope for those who have died. Just as Lazarus's sister had hope that she would one day see her brother brought back to life, we too have that hope that we'll one day see our dead loved ones being brought back to life, as death doesn't end it all.

This is the reason I'm always comfortable because our creator has promised us a resurrection. So even if I'm to die now, in as much as I'm faithful, I'll have the opportunity of being brought back to life again in the future. This is what the scriptures say regarding this: there's going to be a resurrection and death will be removed.

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Yes, I solely believe on love surviving death in as much as it means having that oving memory of your dead love one in mind even when he or she dies and not the spiritual connection of love in the realms as some may think. I'll illustrate this with two examples of women who lost their husband in death. The first woman had this man that's rich and influencial and loved him so deadly but when the husband died, she did weep though for a while and then, the love began to fade including memories of husband.

She moved on with her life and went ahead to marry again. Not that she didn't love the husband. It didn't survive death. The second woman who lost her husband refused to re-marry because she was like bread while her husband was butter. So her husband leaving how now was a deep sting.

Even though she knew very well he can't see her or meet her in person, she loved him so much that she go through pictures of him everyday and kissed the pictures. She would play back all memories with her husband using the picture as though he were alive. She would even sleep beside the picture. The love was strong that even after the death of her husband, the love intensified. So this is a clear example based on what I understand about love surviving death.

The below shows a picture of siblings. The male lost his sister in death after his marriage in the evening and his sister had a husband. Her husband lost her in the cold hands if death with one child to take care of. Even at that, love survives in the husband's mind for his dear wife.

	Death Detached

I've had lots of experiences but I'll relate just one. All these experiences threatened my life for bad. I saw death physically. How? That situation where you're pointing a gun on your forehead and you're just speechless and frightened. You shouldn't have such an experience though this is not the one I'll talk about.

On a sunny afternoon, I was walking with my coursemates as we were heading home. As we were discussing, we had intentions of boycotting our way home using short routes. Once we got to a junction and were about to cross the road, we were carefree, though some vehicles were obstructing our vision to be clear if any vehicle was coming from our left or right. When we saw the road was clear, my friend first crossed without me knowing.

So in an attempt to reach out to him after observing both sides, I crossed the road only to be confronted with a fast-moving vehicle who nearly knocked me down if not that some threw a heavy bag on me, and I went backwards. I recapped what would have happened to me if not for the bag. My heart skipped a bit because I saw myself in front of the car before the rescue came.

Oh God, the shock can never leave my mind. It will forever remain a scar. I saw my death already because, with such speed, there's no way I would have survived it. It was a near-death experience. I've been having similar instances where vehicles nearly knock me but rescue does come. Sometimes I feel it's planned because I'm always careful when crossing the road. I thank God for the gift of life.

So back to my question on painful and glorious exits on posters. You may wonder why the contrast. This is because we did believe that until one is old, the person dies, but that is not the case now, as people die before getting old. Even children die. When such happens, death is always painful. Seeing such a young person pass away in such a manner is grieving.

The exit isn't expected suddenly compared to that of one who's much older and has seen the fore walls of life before he or she dies. This is the one people call the Glorious exit because probably the person may have been faced with lots of tribulations during his old age, and dying is a relief, so to speak. It's not as painful as that of someone who is still young and agile. Some young ones even die and leave the parents sad to say.

As much as most of us have lost a loved one in death in some way or form, we will surely see such a person being brought back to life in the future. That's the hope we have for the dead.

I invite @ahsansharif, @max-pro and @patjewel

Cc,
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