Monday, June 2, 2008

Enduring Death for a Better Life

Have you ever asked yourself whether this human experience to which you wake up everyday, namely life, is rather waking up to spend one more day in death?
Come to think of it, what is the talk about eternal life all about, religious perturbation, perhaps? But such talk is important as evidence for the time being. If everything awful that occurs can be justified from the eternal life perspective, then perhaps this is the short death we must pay as a price for such better prospect. We can not experience life twice or so we are told, thus it follows that one should be life and the other should be death. If the one that is to come after we depart this material existence should be better, then it must follow that the present one most definitely should be death.
Every detail seems to support this thesis. Although it is largely debatable depending on whom is presenting the topic, one has never question the idea that despite what is thought by many, there is only one chance given to each one of us. A chance to excel in the material existence, yet we are taught that there is a better alternative.
The suffering that is observed in this world everyday, as well as the suffering we are unable to examine, that which is experience under the skin, can only be justified through the expectation of a better future. Such future will not be found on this planet. If that is the case, why would it be helpful to believe that this is life when it is so awful for the masses? Only the selected few attain happiness whereas the masses must suffer from sunrise to sundown.
The lack of peace among nation-states as well as poverty and mortal diseases are among the major issues that terrorize the world on an everyday basis. Those problems seem as good reasons to believe on a better after life as any. This view, however, is the major scope through which such an important and controversial topic is analyzed. To add to this confusion, there are those other concerns that do not reach international arena. If someone dies, what is the purpose of holding the belief that they are in fact dead as opposed to think that they will live forever? If one believes their love ones to have passed to a better life, there is the hope of seeing them again and enjoying good times with them. Nevertheless, if one holds the opposite belief, namely, that the everyday existence we currently experience is life, then there is not hope for anything better. One must settle for a mediocre life in this planet that decays little by little.
Those who aim to reach happiness, yet they do not reach it must also find justification for this in an after life. If there is not anything better to hope for, then there is not any reason to endure. Yet, we endure.
Besides, the idea that this is death fits perfectly with the chronology of life as we know it. When we are born, we cry. This event automatically translates into the having enter a dreadful world, perhaps coming from a better place. Why else would we start our existence crying? Why does everyone cry when someone dies? Perhaps because they already know the better experiences that this newly ‘deceased’ person is having and which they are foregoing due to their remaining ‘alive.’ Certainly, such events do not justify the belief on an after life which will deem this one as a mere fleeting death.
There is also another argument: extinction. How was it possible for hundreds of species to disappear at a given moment without a trace? Yes, there are fossils, but those are only material leftovers of what there once was. Are we humans bound to suffer the same fate: extinction, or will there be something beyond?
There is absolutely no way for one to prove this debate either way. There are many arguments that run from simple, or rather complicated, biology to religious hopes. They are each designed to better fit the beliefs of every single being to their convenience.
Or perhaps death can be seen as simple biological stage of an organism’s existence. But in any case, tomorrow morning upon waking, hope you are still dead because you never know when you will start living, and that could be such a surprise.

xoxo,
Poison Drops

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really liked this blog mujer. The part about crying when we come into this world and when someone dies is very true. Maybe we are all dead just waiting to come alive. I just hope this life will be happy enough to never want to leave. But then again, I looked forward to the life after me.

Unknown said...

Uhhm...you hear that? It's the sound of my neurons crackling. Like POP ROCKS on my TONGUE. I really like this entry. Interesting notions to say the least. Did you come up with the baby crying thing?

Unknown said...

Watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ptxY4Bl4RI

When you come by this winter we'll go see this.

--Rosario