Life Death and Beyond

For a person, it is desirable that well before the moment of his death arrives, he should deeply contemplate about death and be suitably prepared beforehand to face it. For other living beings, death is simply the end of life. That is why there was no need for them to have been given the consciousness of death. But for a human being, death is not the end of life. Rather, it is the beginning of a new stage of life. That is why it was necessary that he be made aware of death in advance so that he could make the necessary preparations for it. A human being should die a conscious death, not an unconscious one like animals and plants. Why Does Life Become a Tragedy for Many? Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English poet. He died in 1822. He is known for his pain-filled poems. A line by him reads: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Shelley is right here as far as most people are concerned. But why is this so? This is because most people live in the feeling that for them life has been unfulfilling, if not tragic, because they have been unable to obtain or experience all that they wanted to. Consciously or consciously, they think of themselves as failures in some way or the other. On account of this, when they listen to a plaintive song or read a pain-filled poem or story, their psyche of deprivation leads them to consider it as