HW 46 - Initial Thoughts on the Care of the Dead

Many things come to mind when I hear the word death, or think about death. Death to me is probably the most mysterious events next to if earth is the only planet that has human beings. One of the reasons I believe people analyze death so much is because we don't know what happens when someone dies, we have many ideas. Some think that we reincarnate, some think we go places that dont exist in the real world, such as heaven or hell, and some think we become non existent and life is blank. I personally don't have a specific belief, mainly because my argument against those theories is "where were we before we were babies?". All these theories are based off the idea of existence, which basically means something that we can see or know is there means it exist, but what about the unknown existence. Every now and then we hear things such as "a new discovery" in the media or etc. But if it was discovered than that means it was all ready there, so it always existed but we just never knew.
The reason I think understanding the idea of existence is important when talking about death, is because as human beings we are so fascinated with life and don't like when things we're used to disappear or die, but if we look at history so much has changed and died, in a way death is good, and for many reasons. If people and things constantly existed than their wouldn't be room for anything new, and there'd probably be less discoveries. I always think about these type of things mainly because I haven't dealt with much death in my life, I think one if the reasons is because my family is so broken up, so I have a lot of "distant relatives". Which makes it seem like a have a small family and less news goes around, which is why when I hear such and such had a baby, or died it's like hearing a stranger had a child or died, and I feel good or bad depending on the news. If a baby is born great, a new person in the family, someone died that's tragic, then again the way someone dies makes a difference as well. For example if someone died of natural causes at an age of 97, it's sad to hear, but we make ourselves feel better, by thinking they had a long life, but if someone died at 10 or 20 we'd be devastated, because they didn't live a long life. I could go even deeper with the idea o what a good life is, but to get you (the reader) thinking what if the person who was 20 lived a life that the 97 year old wish they had and considered that a good life or vice versa? Also as we get older we forget certain things that occurred early in our lives, what if someone who died young remembered happier moments in their life, while it was still fresh in their memories? Never the less, like anyone else I think it's devastating to lose a love one, and I don't know what I'd do in that situation. But I think we should all enjoy our lives, because we never know what's to come.