Death

Death is interesting, serene, and comforting. To be able to be embraced by Death's loving arms, seems to be the ultimate life that one can ever live.

But like all questions that one asks oneself, how does one seek Death? There are, unfortunately, many ways to die, but they are largely separated into honourable means and dishonourable means, and not by suicide nor homicide, contrary to popular belief.

Should Death be sought as a means of escape, then it is likely to be dishonourable, particularly if the choice of dying is short and painless. Even the path of Death chosen is for escapism can be made honourable if the method in which one is despatched involves the greatest amount of pain that can be inflicted in the longest amount of time. This explains why the act of seppuku is considered honourable, while the act of shooting one's head with a shotgun isn't.

The underlying assumption is that pain is something that one seeks to avoid, and to seek it as the penultimate step to actual Death would entail that one did not choose Death as merely a means of escape, but as a rite of passage towards something that would liberate them. It is the concept of "rite of passage" that separates an honourable death from a dishonourable one.

Legends from around the world have often placed the death of a warrior in battle as the among the most honourable Death that one could get, while those who just died of old age tend to be belittled as being weak and dying dishonourable ones.

Honourable deaths are hard to come by in this time and age—no one is foolish to emabark on a war or battle just to die honourably. However, dishonourable deaths are far too easy to attain. Some examples include leaping off tall buildings, hanging oneself, or even to be knocked down by motor vehicle while crossing the road carelessly.

Perhaps we ought to see Death by old age as an honourable Death in this era, since the number of ways to die dishonourably is much more than that of an honourable Death.