Death is a Fiction - Grade 9, Reading - I [unit - 4 - Life and Death]

Death is a Fiction Reading I Do you agree with the following statements? Discuss a. Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. b. From the day you are born, you are slowly dying. Did you ever see somebody who actually died and came back? No. There may be a near-death experience. Near is not good enough. Near water is not as good enough as water, isn’t it? So, some people have nearly died, that is not good enough. So you have not experienced it, you have not seen it, nor have you had a piece of first-hand information from anybody. So from where did you get this idea that there is something called death? Death is a fiction created by ignorant people. Death is the creation of people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life, and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another. See, what you call life right now, the process of life; you can also refer to it as death. You can say “I am living right now” or you can say “I am dying …