Death and What Have You, Part Two

You can watch your family members die in hospices. Actually, you do watch your family members die in hospices. Secondly, burying the dead was around before Christian ideas, let alone pagan ideas, in which Christianity plagiarized as its own.  

Tombstones are bought and sold by very secular people. These people have watched their loved ones die, like the Natives of the old world and even the Tibetan monks. The idea of a soul is common to most cultures, new and old. I feel that the Christian religion has gotten carried away with the idea of the soul, while exploiting death for obvious reasons, but to say that the problem is only of the religious faction is false. These people are only trying to honor the ones they loved. When someone puts a memorial stone in the ground, however manipulated by those who procure a dollar from exploiting the grieving process, it is a symbolic gesture of great benevolence. It may and may not actually have anything to do with a person rationalizing death.  

Seeing dead people first hand, I have seen the eerie stillness of a stiff and cold body. The common description of a dead body as an empty shell that has lost its inhabitant is very accurate. There is a definite light that exists within us, call it consciousness, but when the shadow falls all that remains is a body that is symbolic of who we were.  

Moving on with the sudden departure, or not so sudden departure, of a loved one can be tough and not all people can handle saying goodbye as well as others. However, to attach a religious message to death is an insult to the actual spiritual process of death for all who are involved.

Perhaps I have been comfortable with my own mortality for too long, but I really haven't met anybody who seems to disregard the fact that we die. Death is everywhere. We eat death. We see death everyday on TV, in the paper, driving past the cemetery, etc. Even with birth, birth is a huge celebration, a huge welcoming, not a hidden event by any means. I really don't think that anyone tries to put off the idea of death - you just can't. Even if you tired, it would nag at your sub-conscious until you dealt with the mortality issue one way or another. When it comes to the religious faction, I don't think that anyone talks about death more than these people. They even talk about dying for their beliefs. They definitely have a warped perspective on death, but afraid to die - I think not.

Perhaps G.Detroit should have all religious people condensed to a small island and then have it nuked. Perhaps then his qualms with how they deal with death would finally be put to rest.