We shall all die. Sooner or later there is a day when our bodies will cease to function; that day when your beloved ones will gather and mourn for you, that day when there will be no more worries, suffering, pain and most above all your Soul will rest in peace. The day they will say that you are dead. Don’t fear that day. Indeed, death is the only certainty in life. To many, death means pain, suffering, to be forgotten by the beloved ones and most above all the end of hoping for a better tomorrow. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson admires death as a perfect state of calmness of both the mind and soul in her poem “Because Death Couldn’t Stop for Me.” She goes on ahead saying that we cannot go to death but it is death that comes to us. You, I and we, can never escape this intimate and scary thing, Mr. Death, for a matter of fact we owe him. Being afraid of death is not reasonable. The death acceptance reinforce you in living a happy life as it should be lived.
What is death acceptance? Death acceptance is facing death rationally as an inevitable end of every life. This is what we mean when we say “living for the moment.” Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is not acknowledging it. Emily Dickinson in her poem said: “Because I couldn’t stop for death he kindly stopped for me”. Figuratively, it means that death isn’t meant to wait for, it will kindly come to us unknowingly. This implies that the more we accept death as it is the more we will strive to make