Coping with grief is difficult. One has to stay focused on forgetting the reasons for being sad in the first place, but the problem is that when someone is sad for a good reason he doesn’t want to forget that reason.

Most difficult to cope with is the grief due to the death of a loved one. It is very hard to accept that he is gone, that you will never see or speak to him again. The end of life is tragic in many ways and dealing with it could be daunting.

But why do we grief death?

Answering this simple question could help us alleviate our grief and manage our emotions.

Death is the opposite of life. But what is life? Philosophy has not answered that even though it tries for millennia now. So death is also an unknown. And this unknown is what we truly fear.

Imagine walking into a cafeteria. You are afraid it might turn out to be a total disaster. But you also hope it could be the best place you have visited! Why don’t we have the same anticipation for death?

Death is the end of everything we experience. But what do we experience? And why don’t we want to experience something else?

Death is all about loss. But what do we lose? Is it something dear or something that blocks our understanding? We lose our loved ones. But who are our loved ones? The flesh? The bones? The brain? Or something else?

If life entails just us being alive, then we should not fear death. We should fear life instead.

Simple questions.
Hard questions.
About our self.
About the cosmos.
About life.

Oh, do you see?

Death is nothing but a reminder.

That there is more in life than just life itself…