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?
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?
I will pray deeply I don't face such a trying situation because to be frank I am not sure how I am going to think when such time occurs.
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