JUST A .THOUGHT - OF DYING AND DEATH PART 2.

Such are the misfortunes of  humans, that, not only should we have to die, as the cost or price of having lived, but also that so many of us should have to suffer terrible means of dying. 

Should be denied the power to be able to make our deaths as quick and less painful as possible.

If it is one thing the experience of a fellow human's death does for us humans, it is to help us to become acutely focused, at least for a period of time. 

As we intently reflect on our experience of what we have seen, felt and heard about the life which has just expired. 

Of how a fellow human who has only recently been a feeling, sentient, visible and animated entity, can suddenly become a lifeless and inanimate 'object.' 

How, we ask ourselves, did this phenomenon occurred? Where did their 'life' went to? Where will our 'life', when our time come, goes to?  As we look down on the now lifeless body or bodies of our fellow human, and imagine it/them to be me/us?

Such is the nature of our mortality, that we are probably constantly 'rehearsing' our own deaths through the deaths of others.  

And still, so it seems, never always becoming at ease with the thought of our own deaths. At least, not all, or, probably, even most of us, most of the times. 

Which is why it is just as well that, although their are times when death and the process of dying is on our radar, and we find ourselves preoccupied with them. 

It is probably still not normally our main preoccupation of our conscious thoughts. Or rather, the degree and intensity with which we contemplate our own demise.

But, for me, today and past weeks have been one of those times when having experienced the demise of close friends, it has been a time when my contemplation is enhanced. 

Of course, this is still not a situation which can be compared to the horrendous one which has become the daily fact of life, for people who are caught up in wars and other violent conflicts in many parts of the world.

To be continued!