If a human you consider "great", or "good", or "God-like" or whom you have great "respect" for, dies, will you mourn his death? Or will you celebrate what he stood for? - His "great" existence.
Why do I ask? Last year on the 25th of November, George Best, one of the greatest English footballers to grace the earth, died. As usual, the following weekend, all premiership matches had a minute of "silence" to remember this great footballer. But the silence changed to cheers, loud, energetic cheers from the fans at Old Trafford hailing their hero and saying Amen for everything he did and stood for. The passionate reverberations could be heard and felt through the television, and all the commentators said was why mourn the death of a great man when you can appreciate "him" for what he was? I bet George Best would have preferred the cheer to the one minute silence. We all die. He was 59, some still consider that "young", but his days were numbered anyway. So accept death, but rejoice his greatness, right? I mean wouldn't you prefer that- the cheer of appreciation, when you die, to the mournful dreary silence? I would.
P.S. I don't know, this question has been stuck in my head for quite, quite a while, almost an year, I had to blurt it out.
8 comments:
If an individual has the power to influence people and have an effect on someone's life, he/she is respected. Whether that respect is accorded in the form of mourning, cheers, poetry, cinema or anything, it is respect nonetheless. Every individual has his/her own way of according respect to someone who dies, depending on the role that person has played in his/her life.
Yeah well put. I am getting too contradictory, and a little confused. Shitty post.
Hell no Anish!
I don't know if I mentioned to you guys before, but I wrote a will just incase I die! The thing is I rote it around 2 years back...so its not kind of "updated" :P, but the point is that in that I've written that if i had to die I wouldnt want you guys to feel sad or anything, I'd want you to laugh and party and stuff.
Since we can't ask George Best what he would have preferred(though i'm sure its the celebration) I guess we can only satisfy ourselves by doing both, while poor George in heaven might go "blaahh" and then "ooh!" or vice versa.
Its a Pickle.
A mourning if you failed to achieve what you wanted to - for the loss of potential. A cheer if people will remember your name, for you have achieved.
Just wondering...wouldn't it seem like they're cheering his death?
I guess its understood. On such a large scale, no one's going to cheer for George Best's death.
As tejas said, I guess a mixture of both - cheer and mourn - is apt. Mourn the end, acknowledge the existence...
wii - hasnt everyone achieved something in their life that they should be given credit for at least on their death bed?
thanks for contribution to a post i dont like..:P
ello Anish! Once we're dead, we're dead. theres no way back, none that most of us know off anyway! If some1 great, not great, good, or even evil dies, what good will mourning there death do? Yes! Celebrate that what you know of them- their lives! Cheer them on for what the mark theyve left! Some1 considered a far greater player than George Best just passed away too. A hungarian international named Ferenc Puskas, who was the national team striker from 50-56, a period where they lost only one game-the finals of the world cup! Also he played for Real winning 5 european cups and even more spanish titles! This guy's considered the 4th greatest player of all time and at 79 he died. Does the end of his life credit a tear more than his actual life credits a cheer?I think not! No1 celebrates death because it isn't as important as life!
Tim Tom!
"No1 celebrates death because it isn't as important as life!"
No one celebrates death - the celebration is a way to remember and revel in the greatness of the individual's achievements (outstanding, genius stuff - not the everyday "achieved-best-inter-house-xyz").
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