Thanatos !

Freudian psychology says people are driven by tow central desires: Libido-Craving for life and thanotos- craving for death. The former can easily be experienced and seen, but due to ordinary perception that thinking of death is sick, it is bit rare to see somebody thinking of death (until unless one is suffering for some chronicle disease or is under some kind of depression or frustration), this common perception is so strong that even when it comes to a case of euthanasia, the matter become a complex global issue for debate as to whether or not euthanasia is ethical, and the interesting thing is that it is debated for longer than the life of ailing one. Why is death still a taboo topic in our civilized society?

Now the question that I would like to raise is why we don’t accept death as an indispensable and necessary condition of life? As far as euthanasia is concerned I don’t find it hard to understand why politicians and our Moral brigade make hue and cry over the issue…., a society where one is not allowed to live freely how can be allowed to die freely….. It is impossible to respect death without respecting life.

But the question which haunts me is why there is so much longing for living long. Ananda Coomarswamy once said that he would rather die ten years too early than then minutes too late.