Death is the final frontier. As we know, we all are destined to die. Everyday part of us is dying slowly but surely. "Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born." (Death: The Final Stage of Growth, 14)
             "Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of its down." - Tagore
             When studying older cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful and will probably continue to be so. Earthquakes, wildfires, floods, drought, tornadoes are all incorporated into the equation. In all those things lies the "FEAR", a much known fear, the fear of death. "Who will die first?" (White Noise, 15) This question in Jack's life comes up from time to time. " I stared into the dark, realizing I'd experienced the more or less normal muscular contraction known as the myoclonic jerk. Is this what it is like, abrupt, peremptory? Shouldn't death, I thought, be a swan dive, graceful, white-winged and smooth, leaving the surface undisturbed?" (White Noise, 18)
             Death is a subject that is shunned and denied by our hi-tech, commercial society. We prefer, rather, to do all we can to sustain life even if that life is only a shell of artificial breath when the mind and spirit have accepted death almost willingly. It is like an everyday thing. But in fact Death is inevitable. Death is not an enemy that we have to conquer. Death is a waiting period. Birth and death, when viewed at the cosmic level of perception, describes the outer limits of the life of both the individual person and of the cosmos. Strictly speaking, neither human beings nor the universe itself experiences either an absolute beginning or an absolute end.
             Hinduism is the religion of nearly 380 million people worldwide. The largest population of the Hindu faith lives in India. The basic core of the Hindu religion i...