Death

Death comes all of a sudden, without any warning or prior notice. It leaves nothing and no one. Death is a bitter truth that all of us have to accept at the close of our lives. Some meet death in normal circumstances while others meet death in tragic incidents like an accident, a heart attack and so on.

After categorizing death, let us move on to the acceptance and the non- acceptance of death. This applies to the family and the friends of the person who has pa

ssed away. Sometimes it comes very difficult for some people to accept the death of a dear one; we see how a parent acts like a small child at the death of his/ her own child. Once when I was about 18 years of age, I saw that the mother was willing to go in the grave with her son.

This incident of death taught me an important lesson about love. The lesson that I learnt is stated in one of the hymns we sing ‘Love is stronger than death, stronger even than hell’. Nothing has ever been or will be produced that can destroy the power of love. Love is such a powerful uniting force that it refuses to leave the bond even after death.

All want to prolong their life, no one wants to die, however the matter of fact is that life and death are given to us as a coin. We also have the choice of choosing life/ death by the choices we make, lines of action we implement and so on. Life is a God given gift which is placed at our disposal for good use.

Life is God’s gift to us, what we make of it is our gift to God.