Emily Dickinson the nineteenth century poetess, was a reclusive and introvert obsessed with the theme of death and eternity. She wrote many poems that eulogizes death.
This thought of death, the permanent sleep, came to me while I was in the cab. I was sitting in our office cab adjacent to the driver’s seat. The cab is a typical 36 seater Swaraj Mazda. I had a view of the traffic in front of me. As I was lost in my reveries, a sudden jolt brought me to my senses. Our driver was about to crash with a truck in front of us. Suddenly, I started thinking about the aftermath though we have escaped the gory consequences. If the inevitable would have happened, I would have been the first one to be thrown out banging my head on the windshield and striking the truck. God knows, I might have just died on the spot or died in the hospital with multiple brain injuries. I was thinking about my parents, what would be there reaction when they would come to know about it. Would they let my mom know, before my corpse arrived? What about my bank accounts, my things that I have accumulated would it be handed to my parents? Would my facebook a/c will be filled with wall posts by my friends? Sitting there, just one question ran to my mind that human existence is so temporary. Today, I am alive but I might die in the next second. Faces that I see today can vanish tomorrow.
The scenes in movies that shows the bomb blasts in trains in Mumbai which has claimed so many laymen’s lives. People who were there are not anymore. This is a case where you are not prepared to face death and its destiny.
Let’s look at people who end their lives by themselves. History is replete with death of well-known personalities who committed suicides.
Kurt Cobain, the vocalist of Nirvana who immortalized ‘Man who sold the world’, ‘Lithium’ and ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ is somebody whom I would like to bring to life if given a chance. The member of a band that brought grunge to the limelight just shot himself one fine day when his career was at peak leaving behind a year old daughter and a grieving wife Courtney Love. Trouble loomed large in his marital life, addicted to cocaine fighting it out in the rehab and his deteriorating physical condition took the toll on him.
The sex symbol Marilyn Monroe born as Norma Jeane Mortenson died at the age of 36 due to an overdose of medication termed as ‘acute barbiturate poisoning’. From a troubled childhood, marriages she shone to stardom. But again her fame was short-lived.
Something which is fresh in our memory is the death of Heath Ledger who died on 22 January 2008, aged 28. The actor who immortalized the role of ‘The Joker’ in Dark Knight with the phrase “Why so serious?’’!! Seeing him alive in screen makes it hard to believe that he’s not there anymore. He also died due to an overdose of prescription drugs as he was suffering from insomnia.
Whatever be the cause, but all of us are going to die one day. We are here for a temporary period of time. Some die when they are young and some has to face death in their old age. Let us hope that we have a good existence so that people can remember us with fondness in their hearts instead of bitterness.
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