Idea World

There is so much to know, so much to learn. One of the main problems of only living x number of decades, from my perspective, is most of us are still developing, I suspect, when we happen to die.

Death seems to me the most arbitrary of our visitors. Who dies when and why? In this context, religion has utterly failed humanity, IMHO. So many valuable lives are lost prematurely, by which I mean the collective we has not yet harvested all the wonderfulness we might have gotten from those who passed away when they did.

You could argue that certain others outlive their usefulness to our common humanity. If the good die young, do the bad die old?

I don't think so. Our lives seem to come and go arbitrarily, protected or extinguished according to some other set of logic. Maybe some lives are too bright to exist for long on this earth. Maybe their lights get snuffed out all too early.

Maybe others don't reach their ability to truly contribute some life wisdom until later in life. When they die, even at advanced ages, the survivors mourn much as they do at the funerals of younger people.

Could it be that it is not how old you are, but what you are still giving to your fellow humans that determines how others feel when you pass on?

After all, we cry for the young, we cry for the old. But we cannot bring ourselves to cry for the selfish.

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