What is death? The answer to this question has always interested and attracted people. And from the literary publications devoted to him, you can make a very decent library. Moreover, a lot of books fall on the second half of the last century.
And it may already seem to us that if we, so modern and cultural, carefully study the works of Moody, and in the future we will leaf through the Tibetan Book of the Dead, then we can easily answer the question of what death is. Is this really so? Maybe Confucius was right after all, who once said that since we know little about life there, what can we know about death itself?
Each of us has his own idea of this process, which is most often formed under the influence of such external factors as culture, society, religion. For modern people, the image of this phenomenon is becoming more and more television. So, a real death never falls into the media footage, we see only the result itself - hostages shot by terrorists, an alcoholic killed in the process of a domestic quarrel, victims of a gang war. And only when an inevitable biological end comes to one of our family members, we begin to actively ask ourselves what death is - a huge injustice, the inevitable fate of fate, deliverance from suffering or transition to a new life as a gift from above? However, the image of death began to create long before the advent of television. Artists in their works, and our ancestors in cave paintings , also depicted scenes of death .
In ancient times, death had a unifying aspect. So, when one of the members of a community or tribe died, this became a significant event for everyone - the deceased was escorted by joint rites and rituals. What is death? Then it could be not only negative, but also positive - they perceived it as a moment of transition to a new, bright, happy life. But this concerns natural care, which was customarily personified in different nations in different ways - in the form of an old woman, a woman in white, a beautiful girl, a goddess. And only after the terrible epidemics of plague, cholera, smallpox at one time squandered a number of countries, they began to portray it with a scythe.
Despite the halo of mystery and mysticism that surrounds people of different times, continents and religions, such a thing as death, its essence has not yet been submitted to an inquiring human mind.
What happens after a person dies ?
Today, there are many different theories that sometimes contradict each other about what awaits us after death. And philosophers, and alchemists, and magicians, and theologians, and ordinary people at all times pored over comprehension of the sacred meaning of this issue. Some said: "We were there!". Others shouted: "We know!" Still others assured: “We saw!”. But all these stories for some reason differed. What is the matter here?
Yes, there are those who are ready to share foam with their mouths with the rest of their revelations, based on logical (no more than that) conclusions. There are those who survived a temporary cardiac arrest and claim to have known death and saw what is revealed behind it. There are also those (shamans, magicians, psychics) who often “travel” along the paths of the other world and have passed over to “you” with death. But the overall picture, which would at least slightly shed light on this event, which ends life, did not work out.
In the literal sense, a person can witness only the biological end of an individual dying before his eyes, nothing more. But no one knows for sure what will happen to him after death, where his soul will go (if, of course, it exists).
Is it scary to die? Most likely, we are not so much afraid of death itself as we simply do not want to believe that after such a long journey we will disappear from the face of the earth forever.
One philosopher once answered the question like this: "Death is happiness for a person, because when he dies, he ceases to be mortal ...".