Topic: Many find death to be grim, to be the end of everything in one's life. When I hear about death, it's always in a negative light to the point that death is expressed in tones of fear and agony. However, as I think about death .. it doesn't sound as bad as we make it ought to be. To me, death is a permanent state of slumber.
Imagine if you were immortal and couldn't die from diseases or old age. You're in a car driving and some drunk driver crashes into you. The condition of your body is critical, with burned marks across your body and sever broken bones, including some internal bleeding organs. Now you're in the hospital, and you cannot do anything as you're suffering greatly. Not even the medication or life support can ease the pain. To be there, in a state most would of died instantly from.. you're still alive but having to deal with the worst inflictions onto the human body imaginable.
Besides the car example, imagine if you got a disease that could not be cured (due to not having the antidote in our modern time) and you couldn't die from the disease ether, but it got worse and worse affecting you in every physical way possible. You cannot do anything about it, and despite the medication helps along with whatever else can ease the pain, you are forever ill and when most would of died from such a serious disease (black plague, AIDs, ect.) To me, death comes in to make sure you no longer suffer or have to live with such cruelty. Our bodies have limitations, living through that or over is brutal and only a few make it through such experiences.
Question: Do you still see death as a dark aspect of life, or see it as a resort of the body shutting down to prevent someone or something having to live through incomprehensible pain like I do? Is death grim or a good feature to benefit life?