RainOverTalks: Death, Is It Evil Or Bliss? By Niyi Akinmolayan.

I think about death. A lot. In my teenage and early 20s, I struggled with the fact that religions that promise the afterlife, mostly Abrahamic religions ruin something for humans, the need to prepare for death. Worse in africa where they lured us from traditional religions by fancy promises of heaven. Even when, deeply rooted in their promise of heaven, the only pathway is death, they do everything to make people see death as evil.

When a loved one is dying, what is the right thing to do, join a horde of prayer warriors to avert death, or help the person find peace in knowing they have been part of a process. That they are just obeying the laws of entropy.

We need more meditations on death. We need to see it as a bliss. We need to help younger people around us understand this early as well. That way, our thought processes and philosophy become more focused on doing what’s purposeful. We might explore more, take bigger risk because we know we are here for a limited time. Right now, We spend so much piling up stuff for ourselves because we don’t want to accept the fact that the future we hope for isn’t always guaranteed. This is why we don’t plan well for future generations. The animal kingdom is filled with species who have to die so their offspring can survive. We want all our reward at once when time has shown us it’ll never happen.

We need to meditate more on death and find peace with it. Death is the reason you exist. Life is just the vessel to keep moving information along. The Information stored in your genes that you pass on is the only thing truly alive.
Live the best you can. Stop gathering useless material wealth. Spread everything and increase entropy. There is no meaning in being the wealthiest the most powerful in the midst of poverty and helplessness. Death is the only thing we know for sure. Embrace it.

Spread everything and increase entropy.

Written by Niyi Akinmolayan