"Most of us would simply refuse to even reflect on the possibility of our deaths. It’s as if most of us would say that reflecting and ultimately, choosing death over life is absolutely ‘irrational’. Why does it have to be as such, up to the point that we have amassed entire traditional and ritualistic concepts throughout history to establish certain religious, even political and existential ideas that ‘de-ideologize’ death, in order for us to prepare ourselves for the ‘afterlife’, for the ‘judgment day’, for the ‘apocalypse’, why?"
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This might seem farfetched, but it seems like we already have this religious “faith” in life and survival, plus the irrational fear of death, as something that dictates our moral values, and most of us have the confidence to say that this is something “rational”, when in fact, anyone who has ever contemplated on the possibility of choosing death (or in layman’s terms, suicide) would’ve most likely be questioned for his or her rationality, or even his or her sanity.
Come to think of it, we have been preparing to live our lives not just for ourselves, but for others, actualizing ourselves for who we are, all the while not knowing that we are also preparing ourselves for dying and death. Yet we are so fearful, disturbed and troubled in the presence of death itself. This might be the most significant manifestation of our xenophobia. Our fear of a particular unknown has compelled us to materialize our given value to the comprehensible and the obvious. It looks like our “materialism” is not just limited now to the tangible and the glitz and glamor, but to life itself as well.
PS: Now all of this is just too paradoxical and absurd to contemplate with my current state of mind, haha.
