Deaths

Death is a natural part of life. Death happens anytime and anywhere. But that doesn't make it easy to comprehend or accept.

There has been quite abit of media coverage lately about deaths resulting from freak accidents. This is not to say that deaths do not occur just because the media doesn't cover them. It's... just more in your face. Especially for those who are not directly affected. Read the papers and you end up feeling abit more sombre, abit more contemplative. It's like every minute of your life is taken up by minutes of silences. I guess theoretically that IS the case. We just tend not to dwell on it.

Such tragic ways to pass on. From what our human minds can comprehend, such deaths seem to be all the more painful. Of course none of us actually know how it feels to die. Even those who claim to have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and came back. We do not know if it was painful or not. We know physical pain as how we experienced it here on Earth. So we tend to equate such pain with tragic deaths.

On the other hand, there are those seemingly healthy ones who died in their sleep. We tend to think that such lives didn't end so painfully. But do we really know? We often hear people lamenting about how life is miserable/ difficult/ meaningless. How about the meaning of death? If we cannot 'withstand' life, can we 'withstand' death? Can we?

Nevertheless, family and friends of the deceased feel the emotional pain no matter what the cause of death.

Here is to the fallen SAF soldiers who died because of the crash in Taiwan. Here is to those who died because of the fallen trees. Here is to that girl who drowned in the drain. Here is to Wayne Thunder Seah. Here is to all those who has passed on and will pass on. May mankind believe and be taken care by Him.