Currently, I treat death as an irreversible process and a final stage in each person’s life. At some point, I realized that it was inevitable, and every human would ever face it. It would be insane to think that anyone can avoid demise. Imagine an immortal is already so tired of their very long and endless life that they want to die. It is the same as if someone doomed to death wants to live. Therefore, I try to maintain respect for this phenomenon and thereby try to enjoy every moment of life so as not to regret anything on my deathbed. This philosophical perspective helps me avoid unpredictable emotions or reactions.
However, my views on demise have undergone significant shifts throughout the ages. Being a child, I remember having no understanding of it. My only concept of death was that a dead person or an animal could be brought back to life somehow. As I grew older, I developed sorrowful feelings when I heard about someone’s departure. I recollect thinking about death as something painful and cruel because it took people’s life (Santrock, 2019). It became an increasingly sensitive topic to me during my adolescence, and I always tried to avoid it. There were numerous cases when I heard about suicides of my peers, and I could not perceive why they did it. I contemplated the causes leading individuals to give up on living bright lives. Being an adult, my perception of death became more philosophic, and I started viewing it in terms of one of the life stages alongside birth, growing up, and others. This is how I finally shaped my standpoint on this mournful yet natural process.
References
Santrock, J.W. (2019). Life-span development (17th ed.). U.S.A., New York: McGraw-HillEducation.