Death Perspective
Death Perspective By Claudia Berdella It’s strange how death is viewed in a sad, negative light by the majority of people. Death is the natural and inevitable byproduct of life. Life is the great indulgence, that’s what makes it worth living. Death is the absence, the end of life; but the corpse will get repurposed and used by other forms of life found on earth. Humans are not the only animal saddened by death, but we are the ones who make a big deal about it. Take pigs or dogs for example. The difference is, humanity has a tendency to make things into ceremonies. And that is understandable but it’s incredibly demeaning in my opinion that most of it is dark, grim and depressing. Shouldn’t the ceremony celebrate the life someone lived while they could and hold it to their standard of achievement within it? It seems much more productive to celebrate life than make death a miserable end when in reality if you just live, death comes peacefully. Humans have a somewhat solipsistic perspe