This topic is one of the most taboo subjects in the world. Most of the people   
   want to avoid talking or thinking about it altogether. The main reason behind   
   most people's desire to avoid thinking or talking about death is because it   
   reminds them of the    
   eventual physical destruction of their body and losing their little world for   
   good. Realization of such facts about death is so overwhelming and powerful   
   that most people try to convince themselves that its a far away issue which   
   can be set aside for now    
   and not to bother with its painful reality for now. However such assumptions   
   are a mere diversion from the truth and death can occur any minute or second   
   in life due to huge numbers of possibilities in this modern world.   
   So what should we do about it? Well, if we can use the force and power of   
   death as a tool to benefit our living life than why not. You may wonder how   
   could the thought of our eventual death could benefit our current life? Well,   
   if you really study life    
   in its reality and all its stages than you will find out that life without   
   realization of eventual one's death is a very dangerous and could be very   
   wasteful also. OK, let me back up a little. Let us suppose we are one of those   
   lucky people who had a    
   perfect childhood, perfect family and friends, a very beautiful house, a   
   plane, few nice cars and lots of money. Now imagine we are so happy in life   
   that we even do not think of any kind of harm to us leave alone death. Than   
   suddenly our business go    
   bankrupt and loose everything, as a result our father ends having a heart   
   attack and dies, we loose all our friends and the happiness we took for   
   granted. As a result of this big change in our lives we find ourselves in huge   
   surprise , disbelief and    
   eventually broken if not dead. Or imagine we are one of those most successful   
   businessman who suddenly finds out that he is 60 years old and has developed a   
   heart condition with a fatal prognoses. On top of that we realize that we have   
   spent all of our    
   life working and building wealth and missed spending time with our family and   
   missed time to enjoy our life all these years. When we suddenly come face to   
   face with reality that with all these worldly wealth we can not buy back the   
   time we lost with our    
   family, the youth lost working, regain our health and so on. The other painful   
   part of our realization is that somebody else is going to spend the money we   
   made in exchange to our precious life span. By looking to the above two   
   examples we realize that    
   we have made a very big mistake by looking at life as eternal and detached   
   away from reality of eventual death all these years. We realize that what we   
   have done so far has been very dangerous to our health and very wasteful to   
   our precious life span.   
      
   Now lets reverse the situation and imagine life through the lenses of death.   
   under this scenario if you have a perfect life you also know that it will end   
   one day and enjoy every second of it, you will not be in shock if you end up   
   loosing all of your    
   wealth as you already know that one day you leave all the wealth behind   
   anyways. Although you will grieve the death of your father you also get   
   consoled from the fact that it was an eventuality. Since you were prepared for   
   the eventuality of death you    
   were not in such a big shock as someone who never thought of death. Also you   
   will not get drowned in alcohol and drugs because you were not surprised by   
   death thus saving your future life and so on. Now if you are a successful   
   businessman and you use the    
   thought of death as balancing force than you will always remember that your   
   life is more precious than wealth and spending it all working. You will spend   
   more time with your kids and family, enjoy life as much as you can, never   
   become so serious about    
   business and wealth that it will affect your health and family life. And   
   finally when you are 60 years old you may not have a heart condition and if   
   you have one than you are not in shock and regret your past actions. You will   
   also not feel jealous that    
   someone else is going to spend your wealth because wealth did not have a big   
   meaning to you in life than the life itself. Now there are countless occasions   
   in life when you can use the thought of death as balancing factor in your   
   life. - to be continued   
   Author and Copy Right Noorullah Kamil   
      
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