We go on defining or understanding life and in no wonder death comes. I was reading "The Revolution" - commentaries by OSHO on the songs of great Indian poet Kabir. OSHO was discussing about death and gave reference of John Donne's say: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never sends to know for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee."
How true? There's something common in we totally different character human beings i.e. - birth and death. We talk on living life joyfully each moment. What about death? I could not understand few human behaviors or customs when I was child and one of them was when people used to stop doing all their work when someone's dead body is taken to the grave. I am a victim of the silence and sadness capturing the faces of people facing death. Isn't death an equally powerful force like life? Don't forget, only male are allowed to watch the final formalities of death. Male who is considered as the most powerful gender that can digest even watching death on front. I doubt. No gender on this earth is less afraid of death.
Coincidently, we have been taught in the school to stop our all activities, stand straight and head set with pride when national anthem is on play. I can see the environment is same - when someone is dead and national anthem is on! Only thing different is feelings, state of mind! Why not but? Why can not we do the same when a human being is dead? Why do our state of mind is afraid? Stunned? Stopping life for a while when the dead body is carried to the last destination perhaps the biggest respect we human being can give to the dead. There's something within us has died as well with the death of anyone else. After all, life, no matter how indefinable it is, no less than a battlefield.
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