The obituary page in the newspaper always haunts me.. A whole page dedicated to the dead, what for? For the living to remember them for that one moment their eyes rest on that picture? They intrigue me more if its an untimely death.. how did they die? Was it an accident? Was it some incurable sickness that consumed them? Why don't they mention it somewhere? So we can say oh so sad..
There are so many who definitely don't deserve to die so soon.. But then again who deserves to die?
has a 90 year old person lived life long enough to die? No.. that person is probably the favouritest person in the world for his great grand child..
Has a Kid who hasnt had the misfortune of living his life lucky to die young? Nope.. he had so much to do in his life.. which he missed out on living. But who gets affected by his death? He's dead anyway.. Its only the living that are stuck.. With memories.. And longings..
its the living who cry their eyes out, keep consoling each other, keep remembering death anniversaries and crying their eyes out all over again.. does the person who's dead even know what happens after he leaves? Does he just go poof once he's stopped living? Or does he suddenly materialize on a boat like some mythological story with other dead people.. Waiting to be transported to another land/ sea/ cloud/ underground? if two people who know each other die on the same day, will they meet up on that boat ? Probably not right? That boat must be getting pretty crowded every minute.. With the number of people dying per minute.. And the boatman like the ac bus conductor must be telling chala chala pudhe chala.. Load jyada hot aahet.. Gadi pudhe jaanar naahi.. :P
Some obituarys catch my eye cuz of the sheer stupidity.. recent one being she died after suffering from a life threatening illness.. Well obviously.. That's the reason she's dead.. It was grave enough (pun intended)
mallu's will know what I'm talkin about next.. A page of tala's. All old people mostly wearing white with gray hair/ no hair, and more than a page dedicated to them in a paper that's all of 6. Really do they have nothing else to print?
Have you ever wondered why only on anniversaries of natural calamities/ terror attacks/other mass death incidents there's an update on how the living are coping? And how the lucky/unlucky people who survived are living? Now cuz the number of such events has increased considerably, that yearly update is restricted to a max of 2 years..
And journos have no heart is it? Like the guy who was in coma after the 26/7 deluge in mumbai.. He recovered after 4 years.. He's now able to move his fingers.. This happened somewhere around january and we got the update only in july.. Only on its anniversary.. That news isn't news enough unless its time is it.. Or is print space booked? Like only that day in the year can a person affected by the deluge important enough for the first page??
Another thing that amazes me is the use of puns by some either ignorant or very intelligible journos. Sample this.. The family was plunged into sorrow- after a lady decided to jump from the top of her building with her kids. Get it?
so why death now? Cuz its been the third one this week.. All people who may or may not have deserved to die And because I cannot think of anything else to write.. Atleast when I die I don't want people to think oh so sad.. She had just started living.. Ahem, I've been doing so for more than 2 decades and I'm pretty content with where I am now... I have no regrets and even if u want to remember me once a year through the newspaper, Please put a decent pic and a propah english remembrance... And don't feel bad that my dreams are only partly achieved.. I'm so lazy that dying sounds much easier than all the effort I need to put in.. And till that obituary named after me comes on my anniversary I will continue to fade away.. Slowly and gradually...
