TO DIE OR NOT TO DIE: Why Should People really Die?

A fortnight ago i was take ill. No time have I ever undergone mental agony than then. The malady exacerbated to the point of courting delirious hallucinations and delusions.

At one point I saw Archangel Michael riding on a fiery horse coming to my bed side. I was sure someone somewhere had faulted in His calculations.

                            
The song 'If I Die Young' by The Band Perry kept ringing through my ears with each Mike's approach. Some things happen fast yet so slow. Overpowering nostalgic memories at that moment can be detrimental to coherent thinking hence being troubled of spirit.

Dante's 'The Inferno' kept blinking in front of me.

I find myself too young for death's taste. I was not ready yet and found myself crying hysterically. I had so many things to achieve in life. I yet have sired, yet consummated the love i have for a certain lady, for she is yet to know my feelings for her. I am a chronic sinner and that i was sure. I have close friends whom i have not told how much i cherish their support. My book is still in a publishing house and I want to be known as the greatest writer in Kenya and beyond. I have barely started my Forex trading. I babbled all these to the beckoning Angel of Death and sought redemption.

I convinced him to be creative and look further East. Japan has the highest percentage for people my age who commit suicide. Somebody there would have no problem aiding him in his deathly venture. Those who were around at that moment can't help reminding me how 'I had left them'. What with my body's spasmodic fighting and frothing from the mouth.

Why should young people die?

I know, I know the Bible tells me that God has a good reason for everything that happens under the sun. And one of His reasons is so that His grace is manifested to all and sundry.

As for me, John, at my age I have always lived under the guidance of immortality. When that veneer of immense ridiculous hope is roughly ripped off, then i know something somewhere has awry conked out.

Look around you, Kenyan is experiencing self extinct at a dangerous level. The morgues are no longer able to feed self-inflicted cadavers. I took a week's break in Embu to regains strength and shed off some mental fatigue. On the contrary i have been bombarded with news of death in the country on a daily basis. In shaggz, there was a burial or two in a daily basis.

Kenya has experienced the Sinai-Pipeline fire tragedy with shock and sadness it deserves. We even had two days of national mourning for the affected. from baked bodies to roasted livers. People clumsily imbibing toxic acids in the name of brews to their death. At this age and time, it is unfortunate to litter the prime news with such occurrences. Not mentioning the road carnage claiming lives of tens per accident. Unfortunate!

Death is a mystery which everyone must unravel after their last breath. Everyone wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". Julius Caesar Quote (Act II, Scene II).

May death be a natural occurrence and not a desired nemesis. Courting death is, pardon the pun, suicidal. It ravages the souls of those you have left behind and cramps the conscience of the witty. It is unfair, prejudiced and un-forgiven in the eyes of God. We may blame the Government, fate or petty balder-dash but what remains of essence is to try and avoid unnecessary death in any sensible way possible.