Immortality in the eyes of others

One thing every living thing on this planet earth has in commen whether they are rich, poor, animel, planet, or anything that lives even this planet and our sun will some day die. Even though it is a scary thing to think about we some how cope with the tought with it though many way an example is religen beliving that by doing good in your live that you will get to live on forever in heaven or hell. These kinds of thinking has been able to ease the thoght of death from our minds. I too have thought about what happens to use after death and i do fear what will happen to us after we die. I wounder is there a heaven and hell or is there nothing when we die. I in a sence begain to relise my mortality over two years ago when someone in my family died.


Last summer after finishing grade 10 i herd that my grandmother was very sick with cancer in Portugal. After hearing the bad news from my cousin's my family had gone to Portugal to see her before her death. When we got there she had passed away and after her funeral even though she had died as a mortal she didn't die in my memories of her. Even though people do die in this world physicly they don't die there memories can be keep alive in many form from books, pictures. journals, poems, story's, art.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh the main character begain to fear death after his best friend Enkidu was killed by the godes as punishment for killing the bull of heaven. After Enkidu had died Gilgamesh begain a long jurney for immortality cause he feared that he would one day die like Enkidu. Before Enkidu had died Gilgamesh belived that nothing could kill him he was very ingnorent person at the time. Even though he went through a large journey to become a immortatal and even though he failed in the end he was able to cope with the thought of death beliving even though one day he would die but that humanity would be imortal. That has been truth statment even now humaity is alive and so is Gilgamesh is also alive not in a form of a human but as a book that we all read even now. Even though that one day we all might die in some way we can become imortal in the eyes of others through memories, books, pictures, painting, poems and other things.