Simply being alive is no guarantee of life. A person can be enter the world and be alive for a split second before making an abrupt exit the next, a life unlived in a single instant, with no mark on the world except the grief of distraught parents and a cry that has already faded. Even the universe, as old and as infinite as it is, is mortal at the end of the day. The lifespan is longer, yes. But it ends all the same. Well, not all the same. When the lights go out for the universe, everything in the universe goes with it. When a human being goes out, they do not take anything with them. When a human being goes out, they can be placed in wholesale urns.
Death is a natural part of being alive. Everything dies, nothing lives forever. All the surgeries and vitamins and alternative medical practices in the world cannot deny one simple truth, that everyone will eventually come to the end of a journey, that journey being life. Dying does not discriminate, you could be a sinner or a saint, a billionaire or a pauper, death still comes. Life is not fair, but death is exceedingly egalitarian.
But clinging to life, with every ounce of power and determination, is simply an intrinsic human survival mechanism. Medical treatments to extend life are an ever popular option. But when those fail, people turn to pseudoscience and mysticism. Of course, it should be said that being healthy does help a person live longer and improves the overall quality of life. Still, no matter how healthy a person is, a fatal accident or outright murder can still befall them.
But some people do not try to extend life, merely to leave a legacy. For many people, a legacy means descendants, sons to carry on a family name and daughters to birth those who carry on the bloodline. To others, legacy means personal greatness, to achieve something so profound that their name is remembered even hundreds of years after shuffling off the mortal coil.
Across the world, different cultures have different funerary rites for the dead. The common thread between all of them is the dead are respected, even if they did nothing in life to earn such esteem. In many cultures, the corpse is interred in the ground, returned to the earth.
Living can be done with reckless abandon, lived from only from moment to moment. But barring a sudden death, dying is done slowly. The body deteriorates over time. But that time gives a person the chance to get their affairs in order, to make it easier for loved ones that remain.
Coffins are probably the single greatest expense in a funeral and also the greatest waste of money a person can ever buy. A coffin exists to go into the ground. Sure, it contains a dead body inside, but the fact of the matter remains even the grandest coffins still end up getting stuck in the ground. The cost of the coffin does not even cover the cost and upkeep of the grave. An urn is simply more cost effective.
An urn does not need to be shoved into the ground. It can be stored on a shelf. The deceased is not going to care, on account of being dead.
The scariest thing about dying is how inevitable it is. Humanity prides itself on control and dying is completely out of human control. But it happens to everyone and affairs should be settled beforehand.
Death is a natural part of being alive. Everything dies, nothing lives forever. All the surgeries and vitamins and alternative medical practices in the world cannot deny one simple truth, that everyone will eventually come to the end of a journey, that journey being life. Dying does not discriminate, you could be a sinner or a saint, a billionaire or a pauper, death still comes. Life is not fair, but death is exceedingly egalitarian.
But clinging to life, with every ounce of power and determination, is simply an intrinsic human survival mechanism. Medical treatments to extend life are an ever popular option. But when those fail, people turn to pseudoscience and mysticism. Of course, it should be said that being healthy does help a person live longer and improves the overall quality of life. Still, no matter how healthy a person is, a fatal accident or outright murder can still befall them.
But some people do not try to extend life, merely to leave a legacy. For many people, a legacy means descendants, sons to carry on a family name and daughters to birth those who carry on the bloodline. To others, legacy means personal greatness, to achieve something so profound that their name is remembered even hundreds of years after shuffling off the mortal coil.
Across the world, different cultures have different funerary rites for the dead. The common thread between all of them is the dead are respected, even if they did nothing in life to earn such esteem. In many cultures, the corpse is interred in the ground, returned to the earth.
Living can be done with reckless abandon, lived from only from moment to moment. But barring a sudden death, dying is done slowly. The body deteriorates over time. But that time gives a person the chance to get their affairs in order, to make it easier for loved ones that remain.
Coffins are probably the single greatest expense in a funeral and also the greatest waste of money a person can ever buy. A coffin exists to go into the ground. Sure, it contains a dead body inside, but the fact of the matter remains even the grandest coffins still end up getting stuck in the ground. The cost of the coffin does not even cover the cost and upkeep of the grave. An urn is simply more cost effective.
An urn does not need to be shoved into the ground. It can be stored on a shelf. The deceased is not going to care, on account of being dead.
The scariest thing about dying is how inevitable it is. Humanity prides itself on control and dying is completely out of human control. But it happens to everyone and affairs should be settled beforehand.
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