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             Death, the Real and Joyous Meaning of Life
             The last words of Socrates were: "the hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better – only God knows." This phrase expressed the fear and anxiety with which humans have traditionally viewed the uncertainty of what follows. Whether it is good or bad, death has always played an important role on human cultures and it has strongly impacted the ways in which people live. In many societies, grief and mourning are the traditional emotions with which people embrace someone's death. In addition agony, anger and feelings of emptiness or sorrow often follow these feelings. As a result, ceremonies surrounding death, often reflect these emotions, making them somber and upsetting. Also death in our culture carries a set of false ideals, which often is abused resulting in negative results. Contrarily, I believe that it would be more beneficial for a society to celebrate a person's loss with feelings of joy, instead of sorrow. Nothing illustrat!
             es a solution better if "americans" could change their perspective of death to be more like other cultures.
             Some negative views associated to this concept of death happen in various cultures around the world. Take for instance the cultures found in the Mesopotamia era (Summarian, Babylonian, and Assyrian). Such attitudes in this culture differed from those of Buddhists and Hindu's. They're reasoning for illness and death was punishment for comitting a sin. Their view of death was based with lack of respect towards the deceased.
             A good example of their disrespect is rooted in their burials. Although the corpses were buried in Mesopotamia, there was no attempt to preserve the bodies of the corpses. Also in the myth called "The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld," the fertility goddess visits "the land of no return," where the dead lived. She then threaten...

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