Today, a friend and I visited another friend who is suffering from cancer. He is much better now after enduring the weakness experience after the last chemotherapy. He was certainly in a much better mood too as he told us of the people he encountered in the hospital's cancer ward.
According to him most of the people in the cancer ward gets thinner and thinner before they depart from this world. In one of his more jovial moments, he told of one of the patients who approached him with "Another one of us is gone." that he is not to worry as long as "we are still around and it is not our time to go soon".
Upon that, I remarked that everyone of us will have to go sooner or later. I told him we ought not to worry about the going as that is bound to happen for all, without exception. What we do not wish for is to not be able to go when we have started to suffer pain and the indignity of having the television watch us in our agony. Imagine the misery we would have to endure while all the people around suffer together with us.
As I have explained in previous postings, I have grounds to believe that there is reincarnation, that we do not die, only the physical body dies and we are released from our body to be reincarnated, to live on with another earthly identity. Therefore, there is nothing to fear about death. However, that does not mean that we should seek death for we come into this world to accomplish something, a role we ought to play to its completion.
From this discussion about suffering and coma before eventual death, we went on to talk of the merits and demerits of mercy killing. Many cases that we knew of were brought up and throughout all this our friend, the cancer patient, for more than an hour forgot his own condition and emphathise with the people in such critical conditions.
Sharing thoughts and feelings on such matters do alleviate a person's own problems.
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