Q: If your test results come positive and the doctor tells you you have terminal cancer and you just have six months to live, what would you do?
Krishna: :)
Smiling is the first thing I would do. And enjoy my life to the hilt till my last day. Don't get surprised.
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I had a cousin. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer some 5 years back.
The moment he came to know about it, he panicked. "What? How can I get cancer? I never had any bad habits that can cause cancer?"
Then he cried, "why me?"
He just had three months time but in those three months all that he did was crying, despite our efforts to console him.
Death is something most people cannot accept as reality.
One of my aunts had liver cancer 20 years back. I was very young then but I know how she went into depression as soon as she came to know about it.
Some of my other cousins too were diagnosed with the same disease. All their reactions were similar.
I think this is because they don't understand the working of the human body properly. They have no knowledge of cancer. They don't understand science like I do.
I can smile because I can understand things exactly as a scientist should.
Death is inevitable. Every living being dies. That is the reality. Be prepared for it.
There will be a cause. Whatever yours is, accept it with dignity.
The Biochemistry of a living being is highly complex. There will be millions of actions and reactions going on in a human body during its lifetime. Anything can go wrong at any time. If this happens, and when the probability becomes reality, you will have to face the health consequences. Science is trying to understand them and interfere to manage them in a better way.
But if things don't fall in the right place or your life systems are damaged beyond control, death is inevitable.
Nobody or nothing can stop this.
When several factors decide outcomes, they follow the interplay of scientific rules and routes and exactly fit into the reaction realities.
I can see this entire picture before my eyes.
That is why I can stay calm.
I borrowed the atoms and energy in my body from this universe just for a lifetime. I cannot keep these borrowed things with me forever. They belonged to someone or something else for a brief period earlier. Now they are in my body. I must return them to the universe for the recycling process to continue. After my death, they will become another person's or body's temporary possessions.
There is no actual death or complete destruction. Only exchange of material. From one body to another. The flow continues.
The atoms and energy in your body continue to exist in other forms after your body ceases to exist in this form.
Why worry about taking new forms? When this form cannot work anymore because of the condition it encountered, let it accept the truth and happily transform into other entities.
There is no 'I, me, or myself'. There is only 'we, or ourselves'.
And there is only one universe to which all the forms , either living or non-living, belong. And this Universe is a single entity.
I am everything and everybody here.
Just because some atoms and energy came together to become a body in which certain atoms and energy became neurons by getting arranged in a definite way and working in a particular way of the brain, does that become a definition for "I"? That 'I' came from your mind and consciousness. That 'I' will not have any significance after a specific lifetime of yours because the arrangement of these atoms and energy working in a particular way become redundant.
That "I" has no meaning in the big picture of the universe. That is why this universe doesn't care which form is taking birth or taking a shape, suffering, or getting destroyed. There will be many "I" s in the working conditions of a few neurons and they all become meaningless after a brief period.
So why worry about a temporary "I"?
Think about the relatively permanent universe and its magnificent ways of working.
That will put a smile on your face forever in all conditions and situations.
There are no good or bad situations.
There is just eternal peace and bliss. Enjoy it.
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