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Animals And Birds Have A Lesson For Us In Our Response To Death
Death is a friend of life.
Death terrifies people.
Death snatches away our loved ones, friends, respected persons like writers, leaders, social reformers. It shocks us like a storm in darkness. It causes emotional trauma and agony to the affected people.
I shed tears on the death of my pet dog.
I grieved over the death(drying up)of a clear water stream by the side of our village.
We grieved over the deaths of millions in famines that caused food and water shortage, man-made or natural.
We agonized over the deaths of millions in wars.
We grieve over the deaths of millions in pandemics like Covid-19.
Death, no doubt, is an incident of extreme sorrow for the concerned.
People hate death as evil and desire life to be eternal.
Longing for immortality
None desires or expects death. Everyone longs for permanent self-preservation or immortality.
Poverty, disease, calamity, and bad luck are some of the sources of misery and despair in life. Most people suffering from these problems hope for and believe in a bright future part of their lives or life in…