To be born into this world, necessitates our eventual departure from this world. Some of us, leave unexpectedly and suddenly; whereas others of us depart in the sure knowledge that since our body can no longer sustain itself, that it is thereby time for us to relinquish ourselves from that bondage. However, it so comes, painful or not, unexpected or not, unwarranted or not, unwelcomed or not, the hand of death reaches out to every one of us, and each one of us knows this.
While it is good to expend time and energy embracing life in this world, and thereby trying to get the most out of this experience; it would seem to behoove societies in general, to expend more time and energy, in the sure acknowledgement that our journey here and our existence here, is only temporary, and not permanent. This would seem to fairly indicate that a meaningful portion of that which we need to learn, should be about our acceptance of our inevitable physical death, and thereby what this properly represents. After all, how is it conceivable that we can live a good life, if we don’t comprehend what death truly entails.
First off, we can learn a lot about life from studying nature; in which, each year, we so see that there are four seasons that nature duly cycles through. Each of those seasons has its purpose and those that are close to the earth, in the sense that they are farmers, or are appreciative of the great outdoors and its mysteries, recognize that in nature we can learn by observing; in which a plant in order to flower, for instance, goes first thru the stage of the germination of its seed, followed by its growth and eventual flowering, and then its reproduction so done thru pollination or similar, before at its final stage as it reaches its individual demise or dormancy, it spreads forth its seeds. So too, in the animal world, we see the same stages repeat itself, in the sense of the birth of a given animal, its growth into maturity, and then its reproductive mating, followed by giving forth new birth and then ultimately to its own individual demise; in which, the next generation, so created, keeps the species ever present.
When we are young and strong, our thoughts about death may be ever fleeting; because we see ourselves as ever alive, and typically are quite busy with the many concerns and challenges that our life so presents to us that we need to successfully deal with. Yet, at a minimum, in the back of our mind, if not more present, we recognize that the pathway that we are on and that we cannot get off of, inevitably involves that we too, will have to face our own physical death. That is why, it is important to conduct ourselves in the manner in which we recognize that our life here, is finite, and that nothing material in this world can we ever carry onward upon our departure from it; thereby signifying that our own legacy that will remain on this plane, is represented primarily by the things that we have done that live on in the memories of those still living, as well as in the advice and good deeds that we have done as an exemplar to those others, in the hope that what we have passed on to them, ever continues because of its worth and its merit.