Is Death a Cure?

While we are at the festive mood of the holidays, tragedy strikes in Nepal where the bridge collapsed in a remote village drowning unaccounted number of people. Ironically, such tragedy strikes usually when people set out on a pilgrimage, offering their thanks and sure enough to gather some blessings for the near and dear ones. Few years ago, if I recall correctly, similar was the case in India where hundreds of pilgrims were the victim of a stampede. Tsunami, happened during Christmas where tragedy struck in and around the coasts of Asia and Africa.

Is death a cure? Why did people have to die when they were actually offering or perhaps intended to offer their prayers to the supreme being? Is death a way of God to relieve us of our pain and sufferings? Is this his way of saying, “Come my child, come to me for it is much better here with me”?

Now as I write, I hear about the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. After years in exile, she returned to her country, only to accept her death bed, just like her father and her brothers. Despite the corruption charges against her, she was in the campaign for the betterment of the country and to restore democracy that made the western countries smile. Alas, but all in vain! Her message for a good cause will once again remain unheard and undelivered!