The Truth About Death And Dying

Facing Our Own Mortality

Lets talk about the one thing that is absolutely definite in life, and that is death. What are those final moments like? That moment when you’re looking at your own mortality in the face. We all handle that thought differently. Some of us accept it out of necessity. Others avoid it all together because the permanency of death is too much to digest. We enter this world, yet we have no ability to recall the moment of our birth from memory. And so we begin our existence completely unaware of the much grander scheme of things. What beliefs will we take with us and hold tightly in those final moments of life?

The thought of facing one’s own mortality is never easy. Some people are riddled with fear at the thought of dying and can have a condition called Thanatophobia (fear of death). Other people believe when we die it’s just “lights out” and that’s it, nothing else. Most people use their personal beliefs, religion, superstitions or science to bring about some level of comfort. Nevertheless, we all desire the truth about death and dying. One of the most terrifying things about death is its unpredictability. People don’t always know they are in their final moments. For the ones who do know, who are terminally ill, dying from old age, natural causes or fatally injured; I wonder what revelations, if any, are realized.

Essence Of Our being

When we are looking at death straight in the face something happens. Something clicks in every human in that very moment and that is what I want to focus in on. What can we learn about ourselves and our Creator from those last moments of life?

How many times have we heard or seen someone in their final moments crying out to God or reciting some prayer they once heard of? In the very real moment of knowing we are about to die, we seem to realize there is something bigger. What you don’t hear very often are people calling out to other gods or deities. Think about how many people say there is no god, yet when their life hangs in the balance they pray. Those people who call to God in their final moments are not only unbelievers but atheists, and people who belong to an entirely different religion. What does that say about us as humans, as the creation? Could it be that somewhere in each of us is the very real understanding that God is our Creator and we are his creation?

I believe a person’s last moments of life exposes and reveals the core essence of that person. When faced with our own mortality we seem to realize there is something or someone bigger than us. Could it be that God created each of us to have this undeniable ability to recognize he is our Creator somewhere within the deepest parts of who we are, of our essence. Are we too distracted by the world and too out of sync with our spiritual senses to discern this truth? Maybe the severity of facing our death somehow allow us in that moment to operate in our truest form? Spiritually stripped down aware we are the creation of a creator and it is Him who is in control? It’s questions like these that I often find myself pondering and I believe a lot is said about us in our last moments of life.