From alive to a corpse!
The transition seems so effortless in the mouth of an onlooker: ''shift the corpse; carry it ; cremate the body ..." and so on. It is never pleasant to be addressed as something inanimate and yet, that is our common destiny. A person very much alive to everyone gets reduced to a mere body , almost untouchable, the moment his heart stops beating. Paradoxically, death evokes varied reactions in people: from an outburst of emotions to sweet reminiscences to quiet acceptance. The knowledge that the person will never be amongst us in the way he used to be, that he/she will be transformed into a handful of ash and the stinging truth that each one of us will be doomed in the same way sooner or later - is what arouses the bemused concoction of emotions in us: fear, helplessness, the sorrow of separation, the unearthly hope that there is something beyond death; no wonder we cry, hysterically and heartbroken. We weep for a loved one - the pain is akin ...