Satbir Singh Death has always been a subject of taboo. People don’t want to discuss or talk about death. It is considered ill mannered, inauspicious to talk about death .
But death is an essential fact of life . It comes to rich as well as to poor, to young as well as to aged, to saints as well as to sinners. You simply cannot turn a blind eye to it and fool yourself by believing that death would come to the other person but will spare you.
Death makes no exception. It is said “Life is a beautiful lie, death is a painful truth”. Everything in this world is finite, maybe human beings, animals, plants, even the universe is a finite thing.
A flower in the garden would never preserve its fragrance forever nor would a fruit on the tree its freshness. Every living and non living thing is perishable. But death is often considered a hidden subject and rarely discussed.
People avoid talking about their death as they believe, discussion about his or her death will somehow make it likely to happen. Death is inevitable .It is something that none of us can avoid.
We all know that we are going to die and everyone we love is going to die, yet we continue to behave as though everyone is eternal. We remember birthdays, anniversaries, parties, journeys etc but forget that the day of death which is approaching near us day by day. Death perhaps is the only certainty in this world yet the fear of death stalks most people.
Most of us live in denial about death, shying away from discussing ab.