How Would You Spend Your Life If You Had Only 2 Minutes And A Half Left?

I Have Just Lost My Best Friend For Life.

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“– كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْت — Kullu nafsin zaiqatul maut. Every soul shall taste death.”

– Quran, Surah 3 (Al-Imran) Verse №185.

You may wonder how many seconds you can fit in that time: 150 seconds, to be precise.

I will share a story of the last 150 seconds of a friend of mine. I will share how we went through many stages of grief in such a short period.

We all have heard about the five stages of grief, definitions extracted from Wikipedia:

1. Denial:” The first reaction is denial. In this stage, individuals believe the diagnosis is somehow mistaken and cling to a false, preferable reality.”
2. Anger:” When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, they become frustrated, especially at proximate individuals.”
3. Bargaining:” The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief. Usually, an extended life is negotiated in exchange for a reformed lifestyle.”
4. Depression: “During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the…