Earthquake: Mexico's Loss Renews Death Debate
September 20 2017 By Abiodun Giwa
People digging the rubble to save lives or bring out the dead.
Many Mexicans without thoughts of death on Tuesday, died before the end of the day, when a massive earthquake hit the country, and killed 230.
Information about the earthquake came late on Tuesday, trickled in slowly in bits and pieces. First, the number of death was put at 44.
Before the end of the night, the number of the dead went up to 100. By Wednesday morning, the number had topped over 140. By Wednesday night, news reports put the number was put at 230.
The 7.1 earthquake created widespread destruction from its major location to Mexico City. By Wednesday evening, many Mexicans around the world already knew the fate of members of their families in the country. Some heave sigh of relief learning that members of their families are save, but others are not so fortunate as news of death of their loved ones naturally leads to anguish.
The news of the earthquake in Mexico and the rising number of death have also renewed discussions about death, how people are seen one moment and they are gone the next moment. It remains a mystery to humanity how death chooses its victims. Nobody wants to die or wants loved ones to die. Yet, people die and loses loved ones all the time. No one knows whose turn it will be to die next or lose loved ones or the mode that death will use.
When someone dies peacefully after the day's work before the next day, people are shocked that death just sneaks in like a thief in the night, and raises questions about the way people die without any notice whatsoever. The same applies to death by accident like in earthquake just witnessed in mexico and any major natural disaster or attack of any type.
People seems to have some form of readiness for the worse, when their loved ones are sick and bedridden. And when the death comes amid prayers for the sick to get well, since getting well is an option against death, death thus has the impact to push people to a great sense of loss.
Several years after John Donne wrote 'Death, Be Not Proud' a reaction to his wife's death, death has not died. Instead, feelings of death's presence in the human community has become larger than life itself. It is like since there is birth, there must be unavoidable death.
But no one seems to be getting used to death aspect of humanity. It is a hard choice no wants to have to deal with, especially in a case of unexpected mass death. Many people have fallen for Williams Shakespeare in Julius Caesar's expression, Death will come, when it will."
Information about the earthquake came late on Tuesday, trickled in slowly in bits and pieces. First, the number of death was put at 44.
Before the end of the night, the number of the dead went up to 100. By Wednesday morning, the number had topped over 140. By Wednesday night, news reports put the number was put at 230.
The 7.1 earthquake created widespread destruction from its major location to Mexico City. By Wednesday evening, many Mexicans around the world already knew the fate of members of their families in the country. Some heave sigh of relief learning that members of their families are save, but others are not so fortunate as news of death of their loved ones naturally leads to anguish.
The news of the earthquake in Mexico and the rising number of death have also renewed discussions about death, how people are seen one moment and they are gone the next moment. It remains a mystery to humanity how death chooses its victims. Nobody wants to die or wants loved ones to die. Yet, people die and loses loved ones all the time. No one knows whose turn it will be to die next or lose loved ones or the mode that death will use.
When someone dies peacefully after the day's work before the next day, people are shocked that death just sneaks in like a thief in the night, and raises questions about the way people die without any notice whatsoever. The same applies to death by accident like in earthquake just witnessed in mexico and any major natural disaster or attack of any type.
People seems to have some form of readiness for the worse, when their loved ones are sick and bedridden. And when the death comes amid prayers for the sick to get well, since getting well is an option against death, death thus has the impact to push people to a great sense of loss.
Several years after John Donne wrote 'Death, Be Not Proud' a reaction to his wife's death, death has not died. Instead, feelings of death's presence in the human community has become larger than life itself. It is like since there is birth, there must be unavoidable death.
But no one seems to be getting used to death aspect of humanity. It is a hard choice no wants to have to deal with, especially in a case of unexpected mass death. Many people have fallen for Williams Shakespeare in Julius Caesar's expression, Death will come, when it will."
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