A Letter Concerning Death

According to the bureau, there are approximately 155520 people dying all over the world everyday. Bear in mind that this figure is only the result of statistical analysis and the actual number could be well over the stated number. Now for most of us, death has only agony to offer in a thought. Nevertheless, death is the only destined life partner for every human. It is easy to accept death as part of life, however, it will take more than a lifetime to understand what it actually is; the greatest mystery yet to be solved.

Let us liken death to a serpent. The serpent is by far the most beautiful creature placed on the face of the earth. Behold and see that it glides gracefully and is strikingly more colorful than it ought to be for a creature so greatly feared amongst mankind. The beauty of the serpent is often obscured by the fear man have towards the fatal potion it has in its possession.

It is undeniable that most of us fear the serpent or at least some us were fearful of it prior to the understanding that in true nature, it is the serpent, which is more fearful. Yet as we acquire wisdom through maturity (some inherited and some from experience), we arrive at a well-defined sense of comprehension. We soon understand that nothing whatsoever becomes offensive without first being offended. Hence, it is understanding that teaches us to appreciate the evident beauty of the serpent and to not despise it merely because we feel threatened by the harm it may do us.

Likewise, death ought to be dealt with in maturity. And maturity does not imply that we should simply wait for whatever to come. Death, my beloved, is the beginning of a phase in existence where the material substance comes to a halt to allow that which is not matter to transcend the limits of matter into a finer state where it expands in greater dimensions with respect to infinity as the only limit. Shortly, death is the transit point to the second birth that must take place before a soul can completely be a soul.

One transit point is never an interchangeable link. I mean to say that life and death are not mapped on a circle when one is to observe both on a plane, which is with respect to a given individual. There is no such thing as a recycling of the soul through the fabric of existence and achievement of non-existence past the abolishment of negative constraints that keep the cycle on its course. Instead, both life and death reside on a straight line and are more like points on an axis that mark the end of one interval and the beginning of another.

Death is only a point and not the final event. Death is a calling to the intangible within the tangible into the intangible. Just as light cannot reside with darkness in the very same region, just as both cannot occupy the same volume of space, so it is with matter and non-matter. Light is to light and darkness is to darkness the sole company of unity respectively.

What we fear in death are the effects of the emotional attachment we have with matter. Consequently, emotions give birth to memories. We fear the loss in death either in the abandoning of memories we have (for the one dying) or having to live with the memories that already are (for the one who suffers the loss of another). Whatever it is, we should bear in mind that the equation is such that, if out of nothing came something, then something must return to nothing. We can never be certain of a hell and a heaven but we can be certain that death is beautiful indeed. After all, it is a transit point; one like birth, becomes the end of the interval of life on earth and consequently the beginning of an interval of life somewhere else. Every point that travels shall meet at infinity. There is no need to fear death. Instead, be aware of its existence and use that awareness as fuel for you to move on to perfect your being in every aspect common and necessary to you.