I watched a movie recently and this quote struck me on so many levels. It says: "Death is a disease, it's like any other. And there's a cure."
From the beginning of time, religion played the role of this cure. Although the actor here means by death as the physical ceasing of existence of someone, I hold a more general definition. "That each passing irreversible thing is death". And spirituality has always been the answer, indeed, as the higher a man in his spiritual belief, the more he loses his own individuality and thus loses all concepts attached to such individuality. Like time, space, death and pain, happiness and rejoice. The whole of eastern philosophy is based upon this idea. Monotheistic religions hold it a bit differently, by promising another world where there will be no death nor pain.
Modern and post modern philosophies handle it more realistically. They are trying to make us face the true reality of things. That time passes, people die, life changes. We just have to find the individual purpose of each one of us and living in it. Why do we get hurt by the disease of death? Because we're setting for ourselves the wrong priorities. We can indeed transcend our attachment to things without losing our selves and that is by shifting priorities.
By the dawn of the scientific age, things are being seen in a wholly new light. The light of science, of particles and of chemistry. Indeed things lose their glamour when they are figured out or understood. Applying the same concept to Death also makes it lose its glamour. But one must be careful not to lose his mammalian instincts of caring and grief as well. For, after all, we are social species (until now).
I do believe in a cure. It just lies deep in one's mind.
From the beginning of time, religion played the role of this cure. Although the actor here means by death as the physical ceasing of existence of someone, I hold a more general definition. "That each passing irreversible thing is death". And spirituality has always been the answer, indeed, as the higher a man in his spiritual belief, the more he loses his own individuality and thus loses all concepts attached to such individuality. Like time, space, death and pain, happiness and rejoice. The whole of eastern philosophy is based upon this idea. Monotheistic religions hold it a bit differently, by promising another world where there will be no death nor pain.
Modern and post modern philosophies handle it more realistically. They are trying to make us face the true reality of things. That time passes, people die, life changes. We just have to find the individual purpose of each one of us and living in it. Why do we get hurt by the disease of death? Because we're setting for ourselves the wrong priorities. We can indeed transcend our attachment to things without losing our selves and that is by shifting priorities.
By the dawn of the scientific age, things are being seen in a wholly new light. The light of science, of particles and of chemistry. Indeed things lose their glamour when they are figured out or understood. Applying the same concept to Death also makes it lose its glamour. But one must be careful not to lose his mammalian instincts of caring and grief as well. For, after all, we are social species (until now).
I do believe in a cure. It just lies deep in one's mind.
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