Death - The Final Goal

Some people say that it takes a death in the family to sometimes bring the family together. Others say that death is the one true constant we have in our lives. The question then begs that if we know its coming around then why are we still fighting for cures and saving lives? If we all know that we are going to eventually turn into physical matter that constitutes the planet why have a science that develops medication/saves lives?

I have long thought about this topic and can only come up with one answer ... Selfishness. An article I posted some time back ... No Good Deed ... properly explains that no good deed truly has a complete selflessness associated with it. At some point in time we get attached to the people that we live with, family and friends. I think it is pure selfishness that wants us to keep them alive and see the species propagate into the future. For if we were all truly comfortable with death then we would not be finding ways to cheat it. We all know its coming and we all certainly know we cannot live forever, yet we read about people in the newspapers who get medals and awards for finding the cure to diseases we have struggled with for many generations.

We never hear good things about the people that have come to terms with the Grim Reaper and have actually accepted their fate and are dying. These are the people who truly deserve the medals and awards because they know its coming and they are not fighting something that is as innate in our physical being as giving birth or socializing. It is for this very reason that I feel people who pray for the dying, who take the challenge to cheat death and who feel that the world would be a better place through medicine truly take the cake as worldly unaware and cheating the people they are helping out of the one thing they need ... reality.

Sure I might be a bit angry and misguided while I write this article but who are they to judge me on what I think when we all know that what we think is not our own, it is a product of everything around us.