Break the Deathly Silence Surrounding Death and Life Issue

Thinking of the topic for our project work in Phase 2 was no easy job. A couple of weird ideas were going through our mind. We had not reached an agreement, until fairly recently we pick up the most thought-provoking one after our keeping several late nights and constantly racking our brains.

I am always convinced that, the meaning of living is to figuring out the meaning of life. Why in this world are there people who do not treasure their lives but meantime are afraid of death？Why in this world are there not only those who are approaching their dying days but also those who spare no efforts committing suicide? Why is there a curious paradox that when a close relative passes away, on one hand parents try to instruct their children to face the music and step back to their daily routine whereas on the other hand they deceive their delicate children with white lies on what death really indicates?

Thus, we do hope to break the deathly silence surrounding death and life issue, which is supposed to be brought up openly and unreservedly. Only in this way do we possibly reach the realization that death is just a final step of life itself. It is a natural procedure that every ever existing creature and currently living creature has gone through or will go through.

Every baby born into this world is a blank plate initially. There is not a reason for their coming and there is no sign indicating their inborn awareness of being alive. It is through the subsequent years when one strives for its underlying essence that death is eventually demystified.

We pick up this topic, regardless of all the possible hardships we may have to undergo. Whatever the result will be, the process of the tough enquiry of death itself is remarkable enough.

After all, our quality of life can be eventually promoted by our awareness of death.

Zhang Qiong