by Denisa Howe

Created on: December 27, 2009

Death a simple word brings up different meanings to each and every person. There are some who believe it is the beginning of a new life and yet others believe it is the end. There are the psychics who claim it is not the end, and your loved ones are still with us and reachable. Regardless of which belief, death is most certainly final and complete for life as we now know it.

How does one explain it to the younger generations? The age group of the teens is the one that worries me the most. In today’s world they are the ones most vulnerable and understand the least. The rate of suicide and killing is greatest in this age group. Do they not understand that death is final? You can’t come back, change your mind or re-do it. Even if you explain in a way they understand, it also means the same if you take another’s life.

The babes of the world are taught their loved ones are in Heaven or with the Devine one. It makes it easier for their hearts and minds to accept the loss they now bare. Does it also leave the impression that death is a okay state? Is that why the teenagers do not feel threatened?

The middle age comfort their hearts and souls and walk with the thought it won’t happen to them; not yet. They go on with their lives and push the thought of back into a secret little place; to keep it at bay, away from their mind. In one way they are not ready to think of dying one day; after all their not ready.

The elderly age think of it each day. They wonder when it will touch them as it has their many friends. They live each day to the fullest; or simply wait, knowing it will happen. They reflect back on their life and what they did or did not accomplish.

Even when death touches us at any age, we all react differently. We react partly from what we were told and taught; and partly from our own thoughts deep down inside. It certainly depends too; at what age you first experience the death of a friend or loved one. Coping skills are brought to the front along with confusion.

Certainly many are living longer. The medical field has brought many ways to extend our life and keep death at bay. I wonder though, is the quality of life as good? When the word is spoken aloud each and everyone has a first thought that comes to mind; as different as the many ways we deal with it.

Death still remains the one thing in life which cannot be completely explained. I’m not really sure we want it to be explained either. It’s one thing, man has been unable to touch.

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