There is something sad in death, without any doubt: it is sad that
our near and dear leave this world. But contemporary culture, the
culture of radical secularization has reduced this issue to a
marginal problem, i.e. a problem which should be ignored, for one
reason or another. Our attitude toward death is wrong: yes, we
should be sad in such situations, we should respect the deceased
ones, it is true. Notwithstanding, what is much sadder is a wasted
life, a life deprived of love, faith and care of others. Not that
death is terrible in itself, as we already stated; terrible is a
life which has not fulfilled itself. It is a disaster to live one's
whole life in darkness, thinking that life is deprived of any
meaning; or, giving oneself to material pleasures and fornication,
to condemn oneself to eternal torment in Hell. We need to reflect
on our life, on the meaning of life, on our acts and moral conduct.
Atheism has disastrous ramifications not only because it rejects
God, but also because it deceives the human beings whose way of
thinking is influenced by its principles. Atheism makes us look at
the phenomenon of death as a natural process, as an event which
proves that man is part of nature. And the truth is the opposite:
death shows that man is different; only man has an idea of what is
death, and only man can really be afraid of death. Finally, there
is a singularity in death. Singularity means a phenomenon which is
unique, which is not common nor general. One cannot describe what
happens when there is singularity. This notion comes from Physics
where special types of events are signified. Singular are such
events and processes whose properties, or course, or direction,
cannot be predicted nor defined. Singularity is present in the
so-called black holes, hypothetical material entities where the
density of matter is negative, and gravitation- inimaginable. It is
claimed that singularity cannot be even reflected upon- if a given
person found him/herself in a black hole, he/she will never
understand it, will never be able to think about it. Death is a
singular event in such a sense- there is no way to communicate any
information about it, information which will pass beyond the
borderline between life and death. And in this singularity our
conviction that there is another reality beyond death is rooted- we
know that death is not exactly a natural process, we know that
there is something more in it, and we intuitively know that there
is another reality beyond it. It is evident that death is a
transition, and there must be another reality where the process of
transition takes us; but no one could return from there and tell us
how it is like in Hereafter. Science will never be able to describe
this transiiton completely, for it lacks again this information
which exists only in a state of singularity. Death remains a
mystery and its experience is the only certain source of real
knowledge. The rest is a matter of faith!
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