Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die

I decided to pen my thoughts and start blogging. I was thinking hard on the topic to start with but nothing was cropping up in this mundane brain. I asked a friend of mine to suggest me a nice topic to start with and here we go with "Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die".

This is a famous song by Alison Krauss

"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
Lord I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna die
Well, I long for the day when I'll have new birth 'cause I love the livin' here on earth
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die."


The fear of death, never ending desire of getting good and the best is natural thought in almost all of us,infact everyone of us. Fear of death is completely natural , everybody is tremedously afraid of pain and suffering.Everybody is afraid of death to some degree.The phenomenon of death is irrational.

It is the way we think about death. If we think that there's is no survival after death, this the ultimate end of everything , we have nothing to gain or loose once we die.This is the end of all happiness,sorrows,pains,pleasure,no gain and no loss. We would live every moment of our lives. we would try to enjoy and make every moment memorable as we dont know when the ultimate end is waiting around the corner. We wont have an opportunity to relive again as there is no survival after death. We need to take this positively. There are many people of the belief that there is no life after death and they hurt people,treat people badly,cheat. They think there is nobody to question them or watch them. This shouldn't be the case. One should rather think that we wont have an opportunity to relive again so try to make this life as a blessing for others. Make people around happy,help others, live every moment, make the surroundings happy.

As we all are different from each other,we think differently from one other. Many of us also believe that there is survival after death. The question here is whether the experience after death is gonna be good or bad, in other words heavenly or hellish (not sure if the word is right). The fear of death is because of thoughts about bad experience after death,the hellish experience after death. For all the wrong doings, all the mistakes done,hurting people,cheating people we fear the pain,the suffering,the punishment and thats why we fear death.


Lets live our life's happily,not hurting,cheating,causing any pain to others. Lets make our parents,friends,sibblings,people around happy and cheerful. Lets not worry about death and miss out on nuances of this beautiful life. Lets accept the ground reality we will die someday.There is nothing to fear if we do things with pure heart.


I want to share my personal experience. I was at the hospital with my granny. She is one person whom i was very close to and i still love her a lot. We use to share the same room and every night she use to share her experiences,her wisdom, short stories with me. She use to care for me and love me the most among her grand children (atleast i believe so :)). She had multiple clots in her brain and was hospitalised at 8 in the evening. My father and me decided to stay overnite with her. There was a constant fear of loosing her but the hope of she recovering back were much greater than fear of loosing. We were trying to convince ourselves that everything would be fine,its just an other testing phase of life. Next day morning at around 10:00 am all of sudden her heart was sinking.Rushed her to ICU. She revived back and her heart beat came to 70 and again it went down. I could see her heart rate on that machine 19..15...7....4....3....2...1 and she was gone. She went into deep sleep.There was nothing left. I was deeply moved by this incident. None of us had control over it. We all felt so helpless. We had doctors,equipments,medicenes everything but none of us could do anything. I learnt that there are certaing things on which we do not have control, It's a natural phenomenon. The sooner we accept the reality the easier it is to live our lives meaningfully (the word here is meaningful life)


"To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be one of the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil." (Socrates)


"Nothing in life is to be feared, only understood." (Madame Marie Curie)



I personally have no fear of death,might be am wrong.Atleast i believe that i dont fear death and am living my life.We need to have an open mind and accept the reality,the way it comes.