Why Grandpa, why death?
Death, dear grandchild, is Earth's nature's way of renewal. Renewal in the sense of the end of one life to make way for another. Or, in a broad sense, to take out the old, the diseased and the weak to provide space for the healthy, the vibrant and the strong.
Death is defined at Wikipedia.com as the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism.
Surely grandchild, death is the end of life as we know it. Nothing can survive death. Or can it?
Most humans believe strongly that there is life after death. Some believe that a person must follow, what they consider to be, a righteous life. A life with an unshakeable faith in God. A good many Christians are firmly anchored in the notion of Jesus Christ as their personal savior, as well.
To many people death is the time when a soul is judged. Judged whether that soul followed a repentant, righteous life or not. Judged whether that soul genuinely helped others who were in need. Judged whether that soul ever embraced evil at any time, for any reason. Passing a judgement, in the minds of many righteous living people, opens the doors to Heaven where the righteously judged exist in an eternity of bliss. This eternal bliss is a reward for repentant, righteous behavior while that soul was alive. Good behavior equates to eternal bliss in Heaven. Bad behavior equates to eternal pain and suffering in Hell.
Now, these days grandchild, many people are turning away from this rather quaint notion of righteousness in life equates to eternal bliss as a direct reward. Or, more importantly, that unrepentant, evil souls go to an inescapable eternity of suffering in Hell.
There has been more written on death and the afterlife than on most other topics combined, over the eons here on planet Earth. Since no one has died and then come back to inform everyone living precisely what happened to them, other than a statistically precious few who have technically died and experienced a short-lived, so-called death experience, we know nothing about anything that might or might not happen to souls who pass on into another realm, a realm very different from our present shared living realm.
So dearest grandchild, as with every important fact or condition of life on this particular planet, death is what you make it or what you make of it. If you are devout in any singular believe, you surely have the right to extend this to your every waking behavior. You do. But, to put on blinders, as it were, to un-allow yourself to be cognizant of all varying viewpoints of anything, especially death, so that you will not be tempted to change your own single-mindedness regarding the subject would be sadly akin to removing yourself from the sheer beauty of an open mind, a mind free to explore the wonderful. A mind free to interact with the fabulous. A mind free to make whatever choice makes sense for you, not for anyone else who you, for any reason really, may wish to impress.
Be true to yourself, grandchild. For it is in this that you are truly free. Free in life. Free in death. Free.
Hey, I'm hungry. You? Why don't we go to get ourselves a few Whoppers?!
Jim Croce -Time In A Bottle (Lyrics) - YouTube
Carrie Underwood - See You Again - YouTube
Zevia - till death frees me (Official Lyric) - YouTube
billie eilish - everybody dies | Türkçe Çeviri - YouTube
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