End of Life Reflections.....

End of life reflection; as a person faces their own mortality, a quest within themselves to evaluate their life and impel whether it was in fact gratifying or erroneous, valuable or unimportant ensues. Still; from which measure do we determine our own lives’ value? Should we in fact compare our life lived to that of our neighbours’, our family members, by the characters in the books we have read, or by the screen plays masterfully sculpted to intrigue or hearts and minds with gloriously virtuous lives.

For instance, “Bucket Lists”, a wish list or simple list of tasks to be completed by the end of our lives, has been toyed with in many literary classes and freshman lectures throughout history. Within the past decade as our social communities have imploded and the need to connect with others has also increased our sensitivity to death, as well as the need to set out to achieve a desired completion of our own bucket lists. With cancer deaths on the rise and Hollywood creating titillating movies of death, destruction and end of the world theories  puts an insurmountable amount of pressure to achieve what sometimes is the impossible, self fulfillment.  Clichés of the modern times, “live like you were dying” or “living with no regrets” is an unrealistic interpretation how things should be. For a person to live each day like they were in fact dying would not be possible until that person were forced to engage with their inner thoughts of what plagued them or revisit times or occurrences in their lives to now know what they truly want out of life before they die. 
~Christine~