Post # 20 # Death, the Great Leveller

'Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.'

Written on a monument erected to Mark Twain & Ossip Gabrilowitsch

All of us have a final destination. Heaven or hell, they are not but the funeral pyre at the riverbank, the last nail on the coffin are the final things we will ever have in life. And thinking about death. It makes us reticent. It makes our heart lamentable. It is spiritual. It is life.

Funny it is, but knowing about death can be a solace. I got some thoughts after reading Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' On Death and Dying. Dr Kübler-Ross writes about the terminally ill people and the Five Stages of Grief that they go through. Here I rephrase each step from the perspective of you and I:

Eternal Light

Five Stages of Grief

Stage 1 Denial. Do you believe all of us will die one day? Not me! I'm perfectly fine. I take a balanced diet and have everything in moderation.

Stage 2 Anger. But we cannot deny the fact. The sun sets in the west. But why me? Why not those bloody terrorists?

Stage 3 Bargaining. I will donate my eyes. I will donate my kidneys. I will donate my arse if it will be useful for the Holywood stars' plastic surgery.

Stage 4 Depression. __________________

Stage 5 Acceptance. We die of living, not of disease. It will be the most easiest thing. No more Monday blues. No more pain. No more suffering. Eternity.