As 2017 attracted to a nearby, web-based social networking recapped the year - and individuals - passed by. As I read about Shashi Kapoor, Tom Alter, Glen Campbell, Hugh Hefner and other people who passed away a year ago, I am struck by how restorative our announcing (and comprehension) of death has moved toward becoming.
It is nearly as though it weren't for heart failure, disease, or stroke, individuals would not pass on by any means.
Present day solution has some way or another made all of us consider demise being, somehow, an inability to survive, as opposed to an unavoidable reality.
So in the midst of reports of well known identities who lost 'chivalrous fights' against a large group of illnesses, I discover my mind straying to Rakesh Kumar's dad, a little agriculturist in a little town in Madhya Pradesh.
When he passed on toward the beginning of December at the ready seniority of 85 while going by his child in Delhi, his burial service had the neighbors agog.
Kumar and his siblings had adorned his coffin with streamers and tinsel, and enlisted a band to lead the memorial service parade.
"Our neighbors here - all vagrants from the nation over - had never encountered a burial service this way, as you can envision," said Kumar, who, as the eldest child, played out every one of the customs and functions.
They thought it was peculiar for a passing to be praised in this design. Be that as it may, Kumar's family, who came to Delhi to pay their last regards to the withdrew soul, had an alternate interpretation of this.
"When somebody bites the dust of common causes in our family, we think about that individual having finished his opportunity on earth, as we as a whole will sometime in the not so distant future," said he. "What's more, particularly when an old individual who has released all his natural obligations kicks the bucket, we trust that festivals as opposed to grieving are all together."
Much to the perplexity of the neighbors, used to more ordinary funerary practices, Kumar and his family were despairing, yet not obviously so.
"We would all sit together till late during the evening, thinking back about the days of yore, singing old melodies and our neighbors remarked that our own didn't appear like a house where a demise had occurred," he said.
Kumar's rationality seemed uncommon, I remarked. In his family, he countered, passing, particularly in maturity, was acknowledged as a characteristic and inescapable piece of life.
Maybe till in the no so distant past, death rates were considerably higher than they are currently, I stated, so common demise because of seniority was considered (and celebrated) as an accomplishment.
He rubbished this guess also. "It's not possible for anyone to escape passing, regardless of whether he approaches the world's best medicinal offices," said he.
"What's the utilization of crying over something that can't be stayed away from?" Kumar disclosed to me that many neighbors were likewise shocked when he said he hadn't discovered the possible reason for his dad's demise.
"We had taken him to healing center since he had created fever and wasn't eating," he said. "In the long run, he kicked the bucket since his chance had come - the real restorative causes didn't generally make a difference to us."
Therefore, today, in spite of the fact that Kumar and his family are lamenting the loss of their patriarch, their stoic acknowledgment of his passing appears to be far expelled from the fight current science is pursuing against mortality.
Nobody truly knows whether it is some way or another better to go seething and battling into the dim night, or close one's eyes discreetly and offer in to destiny.
Be that as it may, a burial service with music, tinsel and acknowledgment - much the same as the tempus fugit suggestion of most New Year merriments - appears like a superior send-off than some other.
