On Death
I spent the past few days in a hospital. I was attending to a family member diagnosed with brain tumour.
For the first few hours, it was chaos. The implications were not clear and given the way the human mind works, everyone assumed the worst. It was later confirmed that the tumour is not life threatening.
The hospital is a place where you come face to face with real pain – age no bar. It is a place where you witness people make friends with suffering, pain and ultimately, death.
Such an environment sets one thinking. There were moments when I would just sit and wonder about the inevitable. It has to happen one day. That’s certain. What will be that day, is not.
Steve Jobs said something very apt about death-