The Meaning of (Life &) Death: (Cycling &) Recycling

Subjects related to life & death undeniably affix the readers’ attention to the contradiction between Science & Religion. My thoughts towards religion are well set on previous notes. Religious events, church’s fictitious creations for the most part, don't come even close to literally explaining &/or defining Life & Death. For people to be able to face life & death more fearlessly they simply have to liberate their minds from religious fanaticism. Just note that when people were partly liberated from religion, e.g. the Europeans from Christianity, they managed to create a great and powerful civilization where as on the contrary, the Islamic civilization, even if more advanced and more powerful than the Christian civilization at one point in history, failed to free the humans from religion and the Islam just failed in the human advancement. If partial liberation caused so much, then imagine what it would have happened from, say, total liberation?

The reason for publishing such an article is the occasional death of a loved one that we all unfortunately encounter in our multifaceted lives. The actual occasion though that drove me to write this article was after attempting to support a friend who lost unexpectedly a loved one back in Michigan earlier this month. In Plato’s dialogues there is a notion that meditates the philosophy behind Life & Death as an ‘exercise in dying’. Well, I certainly do not want to negatively influence you but truly it’s worth noting that the aforesaid approach manages to make us realize that we live for a while 'for the things which are above, rather than the things which are below', that by philosophizing the aforesaid terms is basically a little bit like escaping from the bodily mundane world into the world of the spirit, the ‘world’ that we must learn to practice for later on, it will shape us and help us to determine our fate in the ‘world’ that is to come, to prepare ourselves psychologically to face the loss of loved ones, or as Plato calls, Μελέτη Θανάτου; ‘exercise in dying’.

The shock, the pain, the sadness upon facing the loss is always unbearable. The emotional crisis is usually uncontrollable; we all desperately need some sort of an explanation on what happens next. I’m not here to give you answers!! Obviously I don’t have them!! Thus, you must search for them on your own; you must liberate your own self if to accomplish the reasoning behind all our surrounding. Why Life does not extend up to 600 years? Why not just to 10 years? Why tomorrow and not yesterday? Who’s on the ‘waiting list’? who's first? second? on purpose or by accident? Our parents substituted our grandparents, we are substituting our parents, others will substitute us etc etc etc.
The Life cycle; cycling & recycling!

Even though I cannot stop being myself (i.e. sensitive & sentimental), yet I have managed to liberate myself and realized that death is actually a continuation of life i.e. Every Ending is just the beginning of another story …