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Transitions
The transitions which we have in life can be our teachers which prepare us for that transition which we call “death.” All the changes which we go through in a life time, hell-0 and goodbye, holding on and then having to let go; if we choose to we can use these to prepare for death. Every experience which we have can teach us something. The death of a pet or loved one can give us a modicum of preparation for our own death if we let it.
Dying is the process of moving towards death and most human beings are in the process of dying; after a certain age more cells in our body are dying than new cells which are being born and our body is deteriorating even before we notice any deterioration in our appearance. Usually something which did not bother us in our youth, like a cough, kills our body later in life.
Psychologically, it is said that some people have a “death wish” which they may embrace consciously or unconsciously. These people usually frequent high risk behavior or often do things that could end their life here on earth. Some believe in living fast and dying young. But we are all courting death; regardless of our attitude towards death, or our behavior. Death, or the transition from this world, starts long before we physically die.
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