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Death and Human Endeavours

Look around at fellow animals. Look at the birds of the air, the cows, the gazelles and the lions in their particular position in the ecosystem. Look at the ecosystem itself in itself. What are human beings accomplishments in measure to what already is? The accomplishments are important but after them comes the question ‘so what’, which brings people to ask into what really matters. Eat and eat and eat, have sex and sex and sex, drink alcohol and alcohol and alcohol, read and read, study and study, exercise your muscles to the maximum, keep healthy through the most sophisticated ways possible, the questions still glares ‘ till when and to what end?” Above all else, for every individual person, there comes a point of reckoning, when we have to face the unknown. None of us is born indifferent to death. Death often hits many hard. Some faint, sink into depression, commit suicide, commit murder, visit witchdoctors and magicians, pray all sorts of big prayers and visit all sorts of