DEALING WITH AMERICA'S FEAR OF AGING AND DEATH

Dealing with America's fear of aging and death



Dealing with America's fear of aging and death

Old age and death are normal phenomena. In agreement with the regulation of environment all trained things are impermanent and liable to change, being subject to determinants and conditions. Everything that has a starting should at last come to an end. The lives of all beings, after being born, should decay and pass away. Aging is just the decline of life and the breakdown of the abilities; and death is the passing-away, the termination of the time of life, the break-up of the aggregates and the casting off of the body.

Although, by environment, aging and death are merely details of life, psychologically they often signify to the worldlings a loss of wish, the frustration of all aspirations, a leap into a large darkness, and thus the feelings of worry and anguish.

In spite of degeneration and decrease inherent in aging and dying, vintage age can be turned into an opening for development, and death into that for a sublime attainment. At the smallest, one should reside the good and worthwhile life of the vintage, and can then die unconfused or even pass away an enlightened death.

A human's life span is conventionally divided into three phases, the first, the middle and the last stage. Of course, with vigilance to what is good and right, one should reside a good life through all the three stages of life. although if, through negligence, one fails to fulfill the good life in the first and middle phases of life, there is still room left for one to fulfill it in the last one, that is, in one's vintage age.

Not only when still a young black-haired man in the major of youth, but also when he became vintage, the Buddha was still perfect in his lucid wisdom. This means a happy and fruitful life in old age is a likelihood. Moreover, as cited previous, one can even make progress in the good life and attain to perfection in this last stage of life(Baldwin, 2003, p161).

So numerous persons spend the entire time of their early and middle years in search of fame and treasure, in searching after wealth and power, and in pursuit of material delights. They might state that their inhabits have been worthwhile. actually, they are not. It is not enough. They have not got the best of their inhabits. They have not recognized the full promise of being human. To live longer into vintage age donates them an benefit over other persons as they are in a position to make improvement in the direction of fulfilling these potentials.

What are these potentials? There are a alallotmentment of them. Examples are the diverse types of inward and independent joyfulness through inward development. In short, there are a allotment of the good that persons in seek of riches, power and pleasures will not ever experience and relish except that they endure to evolve them in their ...