No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
-Euripides
Death is something that has always generated curiosity, fear, amusement and a whole other array of emotions in human beings. Death can mean many things to people, according to their beliefs, their religions or simply their experiences. It can be an end, a beginning, a tragedy, a release, an escape or simply a journey. It most commonly gives us a sense of impermanence, that we are in fact not sure if we will be here tomorrow. It is a powerful and threatening phenomenon because of the mystery of it. Whether we fear death or await it, due to our belief that it is the destiny of our souls to leave their physical bodies and unite with our ‘higher selves’, it is worth discussion.
One is always exposed to different theories of life, death, heaven and hell, and the afterlife. These ideas are almost always propagated through literary mediums. We read about them in religious texts and mythology, novels, short stories and poems. We watch these ideas come visually to life in movies, TV shows and cartoons; and through music we can tap into the emotional aspects of this universal reality. Through these media, the spectrum of ideas about death is widened. And this is the concept we have chosen to explore. We will now analyse the thoughts of others who have presented their own ideas of death through these media.
Thought Circus 