Since time immemorial man has been trying
to conquer death and become immortal. Modern day medicines are getting powerful
by the day and prolonging our life. If indeed, we banish death from this world,
life will become interesting as well as boring. As a matter of fact, I believe
we will be bored to death!
Many of the expressions we use on a daily
basis will become redundant. The human race will become increasingly confusing.
Let me explain.
If we continue to age as we do now but just
stop dying, it will be like driving towards a traffic signal and suddenly the
signal turning red forever. It will be like the entire human race jammed at a
traffic signal. If aging does makes us wise, we will be a wise world!
I can no longer tell anybody to go to hell,
I can no longer say I will kill you… I cannot promise and say that “cross my
heart and hope to die”. Police will no longer carry guns, world will have no
weapons of mass destruction, there will be no more hangings, no suicide bombers,
planes will crash but people will still walk out of the crash and go about
their business. Google will not return any results when we search for
death!
Bollywood movies will no longer have death
scenes and there will be no reincarnation (Punar janam) movies. There will be
no ghosts or haunted houses. Jobs like coffin maker, hangman etc. will no
longer exist. Court will no longer have verdicts of “hang till death”. There won’t be any death certificates. Nobody
will be on the death bed. Lord Yama will become jobless.
Students will no longer be given topics
like “if you were the last person on earth”, philosophers will stop asking
questions like “what happens after death?”, newspapers will no longer carry
screaming topics like “1000 dead in Tsunami”.
With my little understanding about the
human nature, I am positive that in an immortal world many geniuses amongst us
will be researching on topics on how we can die.
My salute to human race!
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