Are You Prepared To DIE today?
So the news of a particular footballer's death in a car accident spread through social media. It's the number one trending topic everywhere. It feels strange because people die every day, but no one seems to care.
However, there is always a sentimental attachment and a need to mourn when these people are people we see, know, and love from afar.
Their deaths are not special, this is true, but the feeling we attach to the existence of others, what they mean to us, or the place that hold in our heart can determine the degree or the extent to which we mourn them.
So people choose who they mourn based on these experience. However, while many people love this guy from a fan standpoint, he died in the accident alongside his younger brother, and not many people would have mourned as much if it had been just his brother. I suppose familiarity is what makes the difference here.
However, regardless of how much it hurts, 80% of people will move on after one week. Why? Because they probably do not know him physically, and they will probably find someone to take his place in their hearts. It is not the same when we lose a father, mother, brother, sister, or even a child.
These types of losses are permanent; they are like scars that constantly remind you of pain; your entire life collapses, and even if you are able to rebuild it, it feels like patching an egg with a needle and thread.
For someone who has experienced multiple losses, I can relate.
I've seen death more than the average regular people, and I've hurt so much and I can no longer ache.
At the beginning I just wanted to end my life, or maybe stay at home and waste away, I wasn't as healthy anyway, so it didn't feel like life was worth it anyway. Even today, life feels mostly like vanity.
If I did not have to pay bills, I would probably have wasted away in depression, but having to work to pay bills keeps my mind from "wasting away" because I need to be in the right frame of mind to make money.
Clearly, the dead do not feel grief.
Those who have been left behind must grieve. The dead do not feel anything after death; it goes to the soul to its maker, and while we often predict what happens next, no one has proof because no one has conquered death (except Jesus) and lived to tell the tale.
99.9% of people are not ready to die.
I know it is an uncomfortable and controversial topic to discuss, but it is an unavoidable part of life that few people prepare for. This is because most people live and live; they want degrees, beautiful children, love, and a thriving business, and they get lost in all of the fun.
This is not to say that people should not be like this; it is simply that they are and never truly prepare for anything else. It is crazy how we can be here today and not be here tomorrow.
Apparently no one wants to think it could be them, but there are no mathematical or psychological calculations for the illogicality of death and who it chooses, which is why humility is required.
Of course, there comes a time when people want to choose death; at the very least, life must be pretty messed up for people to do so, but the average regular person does not want or prepare for it, and this is due to the uncertainty that it brings. Some people are scared that their wayward lives may have repercussions when they're no longer here, and this isn't always the same with some who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and is Born again.
In reality
Because of how we choose to mourn, we demonstrate that we live in the delusion of death, even though we are aware that it spares no one, and that we sometimes become preoccupied with things like good health, a good life, and a smooth life.
It just feels like people who have these things do not die, or their chances of dying are reduced. True, the chances are slimmer, but this algorithm does not fully synchronize with the universe. However, no one can completely understand life, which is why everyone must accept the uncertainty of life, believe in its fickleness, and so on.
However, most of the time we are too preoccupied with the smoothness of life to stop and wonder. We only wonder when it happens because it surprises us: a clear indication that we live too much in the present.
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Fearing the inevitable feels kinda useless to me, my dad used to say 'when it's your time - it's your time'. When I was younger I didn't understand how he could think so easy about dying, but we all die and we can't do anything to stop it, besides living healthy and all that...
Your dad was right. We easily think of it, the more we get to see it often, experience it around us, and understand it's inevitability. Of course it feels surreal, but that's just the reality of this life.
I heard of it, as you say every day people die, expecially kids in conflicts yet no one care, kinda hypocrite to feel sorry for the player and not for the others... Anyway I've read he went out of the road on his Lamborghini so he was probably running too much...
We are never ready I think, even if you would know your exact day, you would not be ready... And it can happen in any way, for the law of big numbers it has to happen to someone even the weirdest way to die... I have read of a man who died on his house for a meteor impacting roof and reaching him, chances 1 over 2 milions and half, yet it happened to him and I'm fairly sure he would laugh at the idea of die for a meteor on his head while at home
Yeah, I think he was actually speeding, because if not, the tyre of the vehicle wouldn't have burst. In the process of trying to overtake. Fast cars have killed a lot of celebrities over the years and somehow they still haven't learned to stop overspeeding.
Yeah sometimes we're the one who suffered the illest of luck. It's how I ask myself questions, as to why I have a rare genetic condition, sometimes it makes me ask "why me" I mean, what did I do to deserve it, but that's life, sometimes what we don't deserve happens to us.
We were born and we all die. It's an uncomfortable subject for many people because they want to ignore and deny the subject for as long as possible. I don't think anyone is really ready, at least not totally. Except those with a slow cancer giving them time to accept and prepare.
One thing is for sure, we're all going to find out. Hopefully, not too soon though! Best to be at peace every day because you never know...
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You're right, we're born, we die as well, it's unsettling and we don't want to address it, but it's life. Sometimes I feel the the ones who have long-term terminal conditions have one advantage; they get to prepare slowly as you've said. They put things in place and it helps them not to leave in a chaotic way.
You're right, hopefully not too soon.
You touch on many important topics here, and it's strange, because death is the only thing that is certain in our lives, and yet it still seems to take us all by surprise, and many act in unimaginable ways when they have to face it. Are you ready to die today? Good question. I try to live my days focused on enjoying every minute and building something I can leave behind for the people I love, but I think those who live life to the fullest don't even think about it. It seems that those of us who aren't prepared to face death are the ones who are left alive to suffer the consequences. Thanks for sharing this reflection brother! 🙏
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Yeah, you're right. We treat death like it's not much of a thing, when it's actually the most certain thing in life. Thanks for answering the question in your way. I guess there's no "YES" or "NO" to the answer, because it's a question that makes us ponder and reflect rather than actually answering.
It's safe to say that no one is ready. But I guess knowing that no one is immune and that it can happen to anyone is the way.
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I recently had this conversation with myself and I realized that people who are afraid to die are those who haven't lived. Many of us exist but we do not live. Death is an inevitable concept that we frankly shouldn't be afraid of as human. What we can do is live. Live every single day like it's our last. Take risks where necessary, have fun, make meaningful connections and just do everything we need do.
You're right, but somehow, 90% of people haven't lived. There's always a goal, a degree, a family to raise and many other things to do. This is why people are scared, the idea of leaving it all behind to be lost in nothingness or be on their way to their maker.
I agree, we should try to life as much as we can and make meaningful connections
I am sad to hear people die, but I do agree that there are plenty of people dying every single day to different things. We can only make the best of what we have.
Yeah, sometimes people only mourn because they know the person or are somehow affiliated to them
This is the hardest truth of the life
Indeed, it is.
99.9% of the people are not ready to die....
Just this evening I sat listening to this man of God narrate of a fortunate passing of a man who took his life despite all effort to stop him from committing suicide in the presence of everybody and so the pastor was just saying what in the world could still make a man take his life despite all effort to safe him....
He was dead serious about dieing, he obviously had hit a rock bottom and think nothing in life was worth living for again..
I use to think this, the same life people are struggling for, wishing to just live even if it's a few months to settle all their wrongs, some one else has it and is ready to waste it, what I'm saying life van be a very complicated web of events in the end there is a light, no matter how dark it is now, my friend will say what does not kill you makes you even stronger....
About these death I always ask myself why's most celebrity more famous after their death, for instance I never knew or heard of Dagrin back in the days it was his last song that I realise oohh... and you can mention others too, so the big difference is just that they are famous, it's changes nothing, it's the same heart break tears and sorrow nothing different ... if it were possible when the world cried for MJ in 2009 he would have woken up....
This person was very famous, and played football for one of the biggest clubs in world football. The way his accident happened, and the circumstances that surrounded it, was what put me in a reflective mood.
Since I rarely use these socials.. just saw the news last night, very tragic jota and his brother just got married few days ago .... such is life, who can tell ....may his soul rest in peace Amen
My brother, the thing pain me make I no lie, It's been a long time that I have really really felt pain for a super star that died, It came as a shock to me when I heard about his death, I just wish him peaceful sleep in death. Thanks for remembering him bro, it means a lot.
I wasn't really remembering him, the circumstances that surrounded the whole incidence was why I made the post.
It was a very bad and unexpected news when I had about his death.
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It makes me 😔 to hear the new
Death is indeed unavoidable and it's a necessary end that will come eventually. I think people tend to have this bulletproof emotion with regards to death, they feel they will keep getting spared with each passing day when in reality it's just there time hasn't come yet. Making peace with the fact that life is temporary can sometimes bring a better tolerance for uncertainty, every situation, good or bad, shall pass.
Death is a constant companion to life, one does question when we lose people we are close to.
We all have a sell-by-date whether we like it or not. Mourning a celebrity depends on age or influence they held in your personal life.
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