When death knocks your door

We know, we are all going there.But we don't know the exact time . It is an inevitable hour. We cannot hide, we cannot escape and we cannot say no.Death. It is always untimely for most people, but is there such thing as timely death?
 
At one instance, our professor asked the class what age we want to die. The question tickles my mind for some time. One classmate answered at age hundred years. Others sixty, others seventy and many more, unbridled on any standard. I answered, a time of my option which is a very remote thing to happen.
 
Of course, nobody wants to live a deserted life. A hundred years or so, is a bonus to life. It is seldom reached for a typical individual. Living such age, knowing all your peers are all gone would be lonely. Walking to your own grave might be a happy decision.At young age, you will be preoccupied with so many things. You want to see your children and grandchildren grow and watch over them.
 
Untimely demise. Accidents. Diseases.Natural and man-made disasters.All unprepared.Should we prepare for it?
 
I remembered a story about three people battling for life in the middle of an ocean. A man, his wife and his mother.There were only two life jackets left.The man could save both his wife and his mother and let himself be drowned later on. Another, is to save his own life and either one of his two companions.He could give the two life jackets to his mother and drown himself together with his wife, since they are no longer two individuals but one, in marriage.
 
What do you think would you do?

Welcome aboard

I've seen jeepneys with weird paintings on its body. People's faces . Abstract colors and figures. Some adorned with silver horses in front, racing with the vehicle itself. Television sets in front to entertain the passengers. The eardrum breaking music coming from stereos of several others, brought inconvenience to the riding public especially those people looking for a comfortable ride.

Today, I discovered another innovation of passenger jeepneys. I haven't seen this gimmick before. As I step inside a jeepney this afternoon, somebody greets me, Welcome Aboard! ,then utters the message for the day. The message perhaps was repeated a hundred times the entire day. It is neither the conductor nor the driver who does it. It's the flat screen hanged behind the driver's seat. The vehicle I rode embraced the technology nowadays. I usually see flat screens in booking offices and in malls. No one ever imagined screens on jeepneys. How's that!

I should have rode the jeepney a little longer to satisfy my curiosity about the new gimmick. If I did, I should know at this time whether a dozen more thoughts will be flashed on screen and not just one message. I will have the privilege to ask the driver or the conductor who initiated the interesting idea. If names of companies or persons tailed the message, consequently it was a less expensive promotional campaign.

I'm more than willing to see these gimmicks on the road. It would be glad to start a day with a bible verse or a quotable quote from our jeepneys.