by Lang Zaam

Created on: June 08, 2010   Last Updated: June 14, 2010

Those alive and well will check for a wil and put up a fuss for whatever the deceased person has bequeathed. An article containing four hundred words can only be dedicated to those alive and left behind by the deceased because nothing of interest happens to the dead person except we arrange for a funeral and speak about a life lost. The cause of death was determined and than we make the necessary arrangements for internment, thats all.

When alive we ponder the issue of death but imagine death we cannot. Very likely we cannot because there is absolutely nothing in death that can be compared to being alive, dead brains do not think. What we imagine is the material things we own and the ideas we expressed, those two things are left behind.

Some of us express a desire to go to heaven and others live a life of being in heaven.  Baruch Spinoza provided intellectual proof that God, Allah or, in other words, the supreme being is actually nature. If one finds peace in than kind of thinking, hell and heaven resides only in the imagination. Angels and devils, daemons and ghosts, the same. If Jesus Christ thought along these lines, and likely he did, one can imagine that he said on the cross: "Dear God have pity on them because they do not know what they are doing"

Upon our death we leave a legacy behind for our loved ones to consider, some are soon forgotten and some last for generations to come. A writer writes books to make a living and write books to express a reality, real or imagined. A teacher becomes a teacher to make a living but also to instill the young person. A bus driver drives people from A to B safely and earns his or her keep. A musician expresses a talent or gift, after thousands of hours of practice to deliver music to please the ear. Fortunately, human nature is such that we care for each other and in doing so are making a living as well.

Every one of us contributes to forming a legacy before we die, to our close friends and relatives or to the community at large. The person with many accomplishments receives the recognition in various forms and the person with lessor accomplishments could be soon forgotten. What happen when we die? Nothing, you only leave a legacy, things you are remember by.

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