Dying and death

Part 1 - 

Dying and death, natural as they may seem, invariably invoke a response of shock and denial. Irony of life - life happens when it believes in its own perennial perpetuity and denies the existence of anti-life. Simply put, the feeling that death happens to others and may be to me as well is the truth you acknowledge readily but give it a shallow credence. 

Acknowledging death in all its certitude is something which does not come to us naturally because of two possible reasons.One the dichotomy and flip side existences are binary in nature, where as life and death are usually linear perpetual concepts and while you are one the other is deemed as mutually exclusive. If one applies some sort of religion and philosophy one can imagine life and death as cyclical as well as perpetuating in time.

Perpetuity or cyclical concepts are difficult to reconcile with as the references that give your life identity or the 'I-ness' are only applicable to the timelines of other people, places, milieu. Does it matter if you are back as something or someone else! The concern here then is foolish feeling of perpetuity of life and the identity you hold in the current context.

Satisfying oneself with perpetuity or cyclical nature of life where one would come back in some other form in some other time is difficult. Simple reason being the 'I-ness' in the context of current time is what is being mourned about.

Two sheer lack of training to understand and acknowledge death as a point in life. Whether that point is a full stop or a comma or an ellipsis that is a another matter to explore and mull over.

Part 2 - Euthanasia 

Part 3 - Geriatric hara kiri