Deal With Your Own Death
Are you worried about dying? Most people are. Death is something that we will all one day have to face regardless of who we are. The day will come when you will have to bite the dust, whether you like it or not. The question is: will you be ready?
Steps
- Realize that suicide is NEVER a credible option. Suicide will rob you of the opportunity to realize any meaning you will likely be enlightened by later on. It will severely grieve your friends and family. Life is a fair balance of trial and joy to ensure that the joy is more sweetly felt while the trial builds an ever stronger character in each one of us. Trial ensures maturation and growth; it enables separation from others' influences and enables us to change into the fully fledged persons we are meant to be. Always remember this when the chips are extremely down for you. Even authors of severely pessimistic books, such as the book "Ecclesiastes" in the Jewish Testament, rebuke suicide because they know that we learn from tribulation and become more open to greater wisdom, even if that greater wisdom also carries a burden of some sorrow. Always allow some darkness in to make the light shine more brightly.
- Search for meaning in life so that at the moment of death you will not consider your life wasted. Most societies today are very centered around entertainment, one would think of their life as wasted if they never really accomplished anything. Helping others to become better people could be considered a meaningful way of life. Raising a child well, nurturing a garden, sharing time with the elderly or infirm, teaching, giving of your time even in a job you consider dead-end - all of these activities are worthy and constructive forces in this world. Even the dead-end job is helping in some respect by teaching you to move on to something better suited to your needs and skills. Always be grateful for what is around you, for what you do have and assign meaning to all that you do. Should meaning elude you for any reason, be ever ready to question why this is so and try to remove the cause of stagnation even if to do so is hard work.
- Consider religion or reincarnation. You may or may not believe religion to be anything more than an interesting topic, but several people believe that it can offer the possibility of an afterlife that brings purpose to this life. Look before you leap, however, before jumping headlong into any religion. And eschew religious beliefs that glorify suicide. These fanatical calls to pure death are a misinterpretation by any religion and are the product of selfish, maladjusted notions that devalue life and its worth.
- Understand that death is inevitable. If all you do with your life is worry about losing it, you might as well be dead. This is not a state to ever be in. Enjoy the totality of a day, even those parts of the day that are sad, frightening or awful.
- Read about "terminal restlessness". This is a quite unknown subject which medical institutions try to more or less hide from the public.
Tips
- Do what you can to make a difference in the world, and live each day to its fullest.
- You should just live life as it comes. Be thankful that you are still alive.
- Never use poverty or sudden financial dire straits to justify ending your life. Something will come through to aid you if you reach out to the right people in the right way. Have faith and be strong in such situations and know that you are not alone in making financial errors. Even if you are dealing with ill gotten gains, there are solutions involving assistance from people who can help out or in repentance. If you are afraid for your life, seek police or church protection.
- Create art using the themes of death and dying. Write a poem, a song, paint a picture. It will help you to become more enlightened about the the subject. Just be sure not to disturb your associates with your musings of the great beyond.
Warnings
- You still have the ability to continue your life through offspring. Remember even if you die what you can still leave precious things behind.
- Don't delve into the subject of death too deeply. You might miss out on what is most important in the here and now; actually living.
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Sources and Citations
- Dying, Yamaraja and Yamadutas (Vedic perspective)
