Death: Only Lazarus can refute

Man is probably the only animal who consciously knows he has to die.

Death happens to all living things. Nothing eschew from this phenomenon. Man could postpone, but ultimately must succumb to it. God gave no exceptions.

We can define death in myriad ways, yet none seems definite. It can mean differently from different individuals, epochs and cultures. Since time immemorial, the idea of death has posed eternal mystery, becoming the core of our religious, philosophical and scientific systems of thoughts.

We can perhaps deduce death into two traditional assumptions: continuity into the beyond that could be from heaven to hell into another state or being lead to eternity; or, simply the final exit toward nothingness.

Belief

Death has various schools of thoughts. In both primitive and sophisticate societies, death equates to a variety of beliefs from divine to the supernatural and to fictive-ephemeral statetoward a significant existence to another, or again, simply a final exit

Modern statistic however shows that humans rarely die because of old age per se. Death invariably follows some ailments, accident, shock or strain which the body is unable to overcome. Not very many die naturally.

The traditional definition of death by Blacks Law Dictionary was simple, stoppage of the circulation of the blood, and a cessation of the animal and vital function consequent thereupon, such as respiration and pulsation.

Death simply means the stoppage of breathing and heartbeat. Experts called this the clinical death; when one loses breath and heartbeat, one is dead and simply buriedseems like a mere biological event, a mere disintegration of organic into inorganic matter. Circulatory death is its current name.

Changing concept

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Death: Only Lazarus can refute