My late grandma watched as her best friend, those her age, and even those who were younger, died, and the village was left with a few older ones. At that point, she felt lonely as those she got acquainted with in the village had died and it felt empty. The only people around her were her family - children, grandchildren, and other distant relatives. For years, she kept begging for death to take her. She wanted to die, too. I could feel how lonely Mama was before her death, and I'm very sure she was happy to leave. She was up and thinking until she gave up the ghost around 1am.
I strongly believe that her thought a few hours before death came would be "Jesus (because she was a true Christian), I want to go home. Take me, please!" She was already tired of living and I could understand her.
Death is something everyone must face and it's no respecter of anyone. No matter who you are, once it comes, it takes. We are only wishing and praying we don't leave at a prime age.
Would I ever want to purchase immortality?
Immortality is a state of living forever, being free from death. This also means one would be remembered for a long time as long as the individual keeps on living.
I don't think I would ever want to purchase immortality for any reason. If my late grandma could wish for death even at an old age, no one should tell me how lonely life would be, especially when you experience everyone, including those you spent your young age with, go before you, leaving you with just thoughts and memories and all you ever wanted is to go. Life is so boring when it gets to a certain point, and many old people want to wait for death to take them.
Living forever means you would have to keep experiencing the good and, most especially, evil as it continues to evade the whole world. It means having to continue living in a world where there aren't good leaders and injustice keeps getting worse each day. It would leave me watching a lot of atrocities when I'm supposed to go and rest when death comes because truth is, those who are dead have gone to rest from the troubles and stress of life.
I want to grow old before death comes, and when it happens, I will be happy to leave the world, especially with how chaotic everything is. Aside from that, what am I still waiting for after I'd already seen, enjoyed and tasted life?
What is there to enjoy again after spending so many years and in my old age when there's no strength left again? The painful part is seeing all the family I have grown up with gone, leaving only me with strange faces that are just coming. In fact, I'd feel like an alien among them even though I am still part of the family. I don't want to continue remembering my dead loved ones every now and then, giving me sleepless nights.
Everyone dreads the mention of death, but it's inevitable. We all will die someday because it's happening every day. Whose turn would it be next? Let's just keep praying to experience a new life after this world. That's the important thing.
