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Human mortality
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| Death is a fact of life and something most of us silently fear the most. The point when our physical bodies give up and we die. | ||
| Like birth, it is a moment that we ultimately share alone as a single unique consciousness. Even if we have seen death a thousand times, it is an experience as unpredictable in timing as it is in circumstances. | ||
| Death has both fascinated and horrified the human race since the earliest recorded writings. It has been the dominant topic and theme of countless cultural and religious events. Even today, death sells newspapers and television, second probably only to sex. | ||
| Sometimes our obsession with death and lackluster emotions towards life cause some of us to contemplate and even take our own lives. Every day, around the planet, human beings take their own lives for a host of reasons. Yet humans are not unique on the planet as the only self-aware lifeform that consciously chooses death over life. Dogs, cats, dolphins and whales have also regularly exhibited suicidal tendencies apart from the famous "lemming" march of death. | ||
| What then is death, in the context of UCA? What insight can we seek to make sense of this terribly personal question? Is there something that we can consider that may make the thought of this day less painful. | ||
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