HW 46 - Initial Thoughts on the Care of the Dead

The care of the dead?.

The reason why I put a question mark in the end of that sentence is because this is not something that I think about.  As a little girl, I did not know people who died, just knew about animals dyeing. But what i do know is that people respect them and believe their souls continue living. What I don’t understand about it, is that people need to feel sad? Most of the people I know, told me about someone in their family or a friend dying and it’s a sad story, this is probably why i don’t like going to funerals or listening about someone death. But why does it has to be sad that the person died?.. .Well I do think it depends on the situation because If someone were to die because of an illness, accident or old age.  Those incidents come with different emotions, especially   when it’s unexpected. Unexpected things are the worse, but also when you expected can be just as worse. Different religious handle the care of dead in many different ways, I know that in Mexico there is a day where they celebrate dead which is called the day of the dead and in Santeria it involves spiritualty.

This makes me think about the people close to me, How would I feel if they were to die???.. Or what they would think when I pass away? I wouldn’t want people to feel sad, but not happy because I pass away. But that life continues (does that sound harsh?).. I know people that died, I can’t say that I was really close to them, but I knew them well enough…are they watching over me? (I don’t know). If knew they were watching over me, I’ll probably be more aware of what I do in my daily life.  But I guess, us humans need to figure out what our own mistakes are, and what can we do to better ourselves. If someone we knew died, told us what we are doing wrong. Will we still learn from our mistakes??. I am not dead. But when I do pass maybe I can answer these questions myself.