Assignment: You View on Death

NOW F OR AN ORIGINAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT: Assignment: You View on Death

How often do you engage with or witness death in your work? How has this experience or the lack of it shaped your view of death? Has it gotten easier or harder for you to accept the fact of death? As you explain, include your clinical specialty.

ne day, you are gonna be in your death bed, waiting for that ultimate trip of life.

As much as you wish not to cause trouble to your loved ones, you secretly wish they were around you leaving back their other priorities.

When you ask them to not mourn for you, you are gonna hide it that you actually want them to miss you too.

Hopefully that is. Maybe you can’t even utter anything you die to speak out.

Then, you are gonna take in your last breathe and refuse to exhale it back.

But, you are not dead yet.

This is the death of only your name. You become “the body”.

Once you are buried, you start dying slowly.

~Your bedroom is now occupied by somebody else. Your favorite mug is dry for days.

~Your clothes will either be dumped or donated.

~Your phone is dead. Yet your whatsApp groups flood with texts.

~You are talked about in past tense and it’s no longer awkward.

Slowly, your voice will fade out of memories. Your face will be limited to the photos you leave behind.

Every marks about your existence will be replaced.

And then one day, you die, uneventfully, without anybody’s notice.

Death is not death. But the beginning of death.