Bucket List, Vision After

I read an interesting article in the Strait Times, "Going Gently into The Night"

Death is always a taboo subject, it is a curse or "sial"?

The following comments quoted from the article:

"Life is fragile, yet most people avoid thinking and talking about it"
"I'm sad about the pain my illness and death have caused my friends and family..."
"Now that I know I may go any time, I want to take good of my family, while I can.."
"...has told me she's afraid that she'll forget me..."
"From panic to peaceful exit"
"Depart Well or Not.....Unnecessary suffering that could be avoided..."
"Don't act like it's not happening"
"He worries not for himself, but for his family"
"Live well to die well"
"Seeing death in different light"
"Dying process is part of life"

I like to pen this "taboo" subject, because people tends to ignore it. I have taken the above picture, sitting in the cafe, what will I look like if I close my eyes?? Look handsome still.

I feel that it is part of a process, one cannot be born or died twice. There is the birth and death, the beginning and the end.

When I am young, I fear death. maybe it is the unfinished missions/goals, or the responsiblilities have not been fulfilled.

It bring to my mind the accident in Gemas, Malaysia, about 30 years ago, while I was working in Kuala Lumpur. I went off the road, and down the ravine, about 300m below. When the car went airbourne, I was holding tightly to my steering wheels.
The pictures flashed across my mind.
The pictures are of my two young daughters and lovely wife.
The thought that came was a wish, death would not come to me so soon!!!
It did not, I am able to write about it. The Lord has plans for me?

At the present, I am not afraid even to write about death.
That is the reason I title this post, "Bucket List, Vision after"

I am living well, and do enjoy now and then, to go back to my wife's "penthouse" and my dog.

I do have my vision how it will end, will it be how I visualse it??

Just yesterday, some of my staff went on a picnic, I met them coming back with their family, from their outing in the basement, and how their children call me "grandpa". Mind you, the staff has worked with me, when they are single. It strikes a note in my heart, that I am not getting any younger.

It also bring to my memory, those whom I have a part to play in their growing up and career path and they have become successful, will they be grateful to my advice and assistance. Will they display their emotions, and will they leave same legacy too, to others.

I always hear people speaking good and praise of the departed, when he lies there as cold as a stone, cannot listen.
I prefer actions than words. why all the complications? Just cremated and throw ashes into the wind and across the sea. No frills and cost!!! Few weeks ago, I saw the Australian movie, about a group of orphans, set in Darwin, Nothern Australia. they have difficult time being adopted, but in the end the leader of the group, become a pastor, and died in Africa. They met again in Darwin to scattered the ashes of the pastor in the wind and across the sea, to fulfill the last wish of their beloved friend.

The worldly life has ended, and the eternal life begins.

John 5:24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eteranl life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life"