Death, confronting the last taboo.

The Questions that arise in Us, when We are faced with Death, are most of the time ignored and kept withinin this dark uncomfortable place from where they trying to bubble into our consciousness. We are afraid not so much of dying, but of the dark shadow that overcast the western ceremonies of Funerals, imprinting inside of  Us the sadness that is causing a repression of vital emotions. Behind the common Ego (the shadow)  lies a hard and brutal sudden realization :
"We are leaving this world with all of our  relatives and friends, inside a box that is being placed into a hole digged into the earth!"  But behind these thoughts is something much more older and archetypal,  a disturbing and frightening truth.
"We have to put Him/Her into this hole because the body has to be disposed of as soon as possible because it poses a thread to our health!" 
We are more likely to project our personal lively dark experience onto everything that has to do with Death rather than to accept that this darkness is a part of our own being which makes it  quite contrary to Death.   We  as Humans are not very good in accepting ourselfs as Evil as we are (We are always looking for Bad /Evil things in order to reject, avoid and project it on to something else, instaed of looking for it in ourself's). 


Here is Once again the world greatest mind and thinker giving his thoughts on the Subject of Death.

In the future, Carl C.G. Jung may not be so much remembered for his contributions to science as for his beautiful writing, imagination, and wide range of interests. In his meditation on death, “The Soul and Death” (“Seele und Tod”), Jung treats death as the inevitable descent after an ascent up a hill. Jung’s stoic reconciliation with death is understandable, even rational, in a time when the scientific conquest of death was not a practical possibility. Now that the practical means are available to participate in a time when rejuvenation may be possible, we need  imaginative thinkers, writers and poets to give expression to a conception of life that is not an inevitable road to degeneration and oblivion.

Fragment of Carl C.G. Jung – The Soul and Death (in: The Meaning of Death, Herman Feifel, editor)

I have often been asked what I believe about death, that unproblematical ending of individual existence. Death is known to us simply as the end. It is the period, often placed before the close of the sentence and followed only by memories of aftereffects in others. For the person concerned, however, the sand has run out of the glass; the rolling stone has come to rest. When death confronts us, life always seems like a downward flow or like a clock that has been wound up and whose eventual “running down” is taken for granted. We are never more convinced of this “running down” than when a human life comes to its end before our eyes, and the question of the meaning and worth of life never becomes more urgent or more agonizing than when we see the final breath leave a body which a moment before was living. How different does the meaning of life seem to us when we see a young person striving for distant goals and shaping the future, and compare this with an incurable invalid, or with an old man who is sinking reluctantly and without strength to resist into the grave! Youth — we should like to think — has purpose, future, meaning, and value, whereas the coming to an end is only a meaningless cessation. If a young man is afraid of the world, of life and the future, then everyone finds it regrettable, senseless, neurotic; he is considered a cowardly shirker. But when an aging person secretly shudders and is even mortally afraid at the thought that his reasonable expectation of life now amounts to only so many years, then we are painfully reminded of certain feelings within our own breast; we look away and turn the conversation to some other topic. The optimism with which we judge the young man fails us here. Naturally we have on hand for every eventuality one or two suitable banalities about life which we occasionally hand out to the other fellow, such as “everyone must die sometime,” “one doesn’t live forever,” etc. But when one is alone and it is night and so dark and still that one hears nothing and sees nothing but the thoughts which add and subtract the years, and the long row of disagreeable facts which remorselessly indicate how far the hand of the clock has moved forward, and the slow, irresistible approach of the wall of darkness which will eventually engulf everything you love, possess, wish, strive, and hope for — then all our profundities about life slink off to some undiscoverable hiding place, and fear envelops the sleepless one like a smothering blanket.

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