Do we really fear death? I mean do we really fear our ‘own’ death or do we fear it in general sense? ok..wait..now dont start looking at me with a frown...i love to discuss death...i find it very interesting and amusing...something which is beyond our comprehension..something we will never understand fully...so death does fascinate me...and i am not a pessimist...(almost on the lines of my name is khan..and 'm not a terrorist:))... so i dont understand why the topic is such a taboo in the first place..just why cant we discuss 'death' openly like all the other topics in the sun?...the moment somebody whispers death...people start looking around for the culprit...
oh very well...where was I...yes...so what i think...(if it at all counts)…..all we fear about is 'death of others' around us…death of our near and dear ones to be precise…what if they left us mid-way…what will happen to us if they leave us…will it be difficult to live without them…it is almost never ‘what will happen to them’…..its almost always ‘what will happen to us minus them’…and that’s why we are afraid of death….always selfish..…the human beings…always so selfish..…its never about ‘others’…at the core...its always about 'us'...its always about 'me'...
agree with you on most points..
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About your question/complain about death topic being a 'taboo', i think because of years and years of belief system that death is supposed to be a bad thing
and as for humans being selfish.. well that's what makes us human. selflessness is predictable and boring. selfishness, on the other hand, is interesting
@ravindra...yes...we all are selfish...and i am quite comfortable with that tag...
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