"But the worst thing that could ever happen to a person is not death - anyone would die given a cause big enough. The worst thing that could ever happen to you is never having anything worth dying for." - Joanne Shetler
I found this off a friend's blog and I am pondering on the meaning of this statement. Is that really the worst thing that could ever happen?
Death, after all, is hardly an option. Whether you die for a cause or not, one thing alone is certain, you are going to die. So what is the worst thing that could happen to someone? I think the worst thing that could happen to someone is not being able to find anything worth living for. Maybe it is just semantics and we are essentially saying the same thing. But nothing is sadder than to observe a person living when the will to live is no longer there. There is something particularly poignant about a person who is living only to die. Poignant yet regrettable.
I admit that I have always been somewhat fascinated about death myself. I think about it every now and then. I wonder if you will get to see your relatives, your friends, hang out with some historical greats. Will you hold on to your personality? If you were stiff and awkward in life, are you going to relax a bit in death? Do you still have the capacity to learn new things after you cease owning a brain? I must say that I would be truly disappointed if there is no life, no existence of some form after death. I would be disappointed if this is it, our one shot at announcing to the universe, "I exist."
Sometimes I wonder if people commit suicide not necessarily or purely out of depression but out of an irrepressible curiosity about the "other side" and can't wait to see just what the fuss is all about.
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