The Meaningful Of Death And Dying

Almost all humans view death as the worst form of evil, and try to find every way to escape, but no one has succeeded. Death certainly crushes all efforts try to against it. How much effort is to find the eternal medicine to escape or fight it but in the end is only a failure, if success it is just a few years of life. Death and dying are an intrinsic attribute to humankind. Why are we afraid it? Why can we accept it and live a meaningful live?

In the United States, people tend to perceive dead is a tragic, the enemy that need to be defeated. People perceive death depending on their culture. To Buddhist, death is natural and generative at all levels of reality. Thinking about death, each one of us will be more tolerant, gentle towards ourselves as well as the other. And then we will also be less attached to vain ambition when we can identify the shortness of life, and no matter how much wealth we accumulate, we will not be able to carry a penny when dying. Each person will realize that life is not just about accumulation of wealth, from which we will like to be more generous, to share and bring joy and happiness to the lives of others. By contrast, the silence and avoidance that shape American’s attitudes toward death. Dying has become unmentioned word in daily conversational. They try to avoid it by talking other pleasant things when someone mentions death, instead confronting with it, accept it, and perceive it like a universal rule. They try to seal them in the specter of mortality, instead of teaching them to engage, to give them tools to explore their own relationship. Death to them is a death sentence, once they have faced it, they will give up everything, instead trying to challenge it, overcome it. According to Hannig (2016), an anthropologist wrote: “In the United States the end of the life has become so medicalized that dead often view as a failure, rather than an expected stage of life”. After every death is a painful meltdown. Just look at the plethora of contemporary fantasies of immortality, which range from anti-aging creams to efforts to download a person’s brain so he or she can continue to live virtually, to cryonics, the practice of freezing and storing bodies or body parts in the hope that future scientists will thaw them and bring them back to life.

Love and compassion can grow buds and bloom in us like a tree full of beautiful flowers. We can become truly compassionate, who do not discriminate on the basics of race, religion, social status… our lives will have more light and we can say we are really happy. When death comes we will have no regrets. We can die happily and peacefully, with a smile on our lips. The younger generation of American need to be educated and how to accept death, for which they will not live a regretful life.