On Early Death

Yesterday was World Day and/against Cancer. In Kosovo it was said that the rate of deaths from this disease was below the average of countries in the region. The world reported that the number of cases of disease overcoming had increased. Maybe the world will overcome it in decades of cancer death. He will find the cure for his treatment and defeat. Like other deadly diseases throughout history. Human species evolves, and this has been witnessed by the new generations born in several African countries, which we had immune cells to Hiv/Aides. The same can happen after a long time (long for us but not for mankind) with cancer. The human body itself evolves to the extent that it is no longer vulnerable.  

But let us deal with an inevitable aspect of cancer death. Let's deal with the fear of such fate. I think even anti-air air reactions in Pristina had such fear as motive. So it's about a fear of death. To be more accurate, we have to do with fear of premature death. This involves two things: death on time and the way it dies.

I don't believe there's a good way to die. People die from cancer, heart disease, other diseases, then various accidents, wars, and so on. But this is not about a preference. And if this is the case, then this is the totalitarian tendency of Western societies to take control of everything. In the nineteenth century, the systematization of leisure began. Sports were invented, and certain means of spending this leisure time. Suppose there are millions of people around the world who spend hundreds of hours each year watching soccer or some other sport. Rare are those who manage to avoid this form of manipulation. To get back to the subject, the same trend is seen in death. Our will should be primary in its choice. Because this will comes into production schemes. In Switzerland, and perhaps elsewhere, there are certain places where people decide to end their lives. While there's a movement that requires that the willful man be free of pain, and die. Nearly a million people a year commit suicide. And within certain figures of death statistics is each cause of death. It is seen as natural that the effort to better understand society's jihadists is controlled and rationalized. Someone might wonder what's wrong with getting control of how we die. At first glance, every company for control and schematicization seems good and useful. But the point is, we need to inspect these efforts. We're dealing with certain interests of great acts. With super-economic actions subjecting individual will and all human activity. I don't believe there are adequate ways to die. But the economic system, yes. Believe and strive in this respect.

It is similar with premature death. Since we are within a system that functions through our capacities and energy, it is understandable that the time to die is after retirement. Pensioners can die any time they want because they're useless. In fact, to illustrate [not to demonstrate because this is an isolated case] the general tendency to control death may mention an example of Michael Sandel's speech, which is said to be in the state's interest to allow smoking because it causes the number of retirement deaths to rise, which is translated into fewer pensions for people. More millions for the state.

Fear of an premature death, of cancer or of any other disease I don't find so reasonable. In the famous Breaking Bad series, the top personage undergoes a major personality change as soon as it finds out it has cancer. From a simple professor of chemistry and a man who had failed his extraordinary potential, he sinks into the world of crime and drugs, and he finds himself enjoying his freedom and potential in the final phase of life. He becomes a criminal but lives. Walter White realizes his whole life had gone by taking action for others. Among the latest scenes of this series, perhaps in the final episode, when he meets his ruined wife, he admits that all he had done was for himself. In another scenario that reminds me, Walter White spoke harshly to another cancer patient who was shaking and groaning his fate. He advises him to live with passion the last days of his life, doing everything he can to give meaning to his life.

In the meantime, take the cancer-free people. Their lives are sad, melancholic. A life with no passion. With extreme conformism. Living is reduced to co-operating and being reformed. Connect all your expectations to the collective, society of state. This is evident in our society, where even more there is stuttering about the state's inability, our state samples, the social inability to change things, and the like.

I'm bringing back the film Melancholia by director Lars Von Trier. Slavoy Zizek faces numerous reactions and criticisms taken against Von Trier for proficiency or sadness in the movie. The world literally ends, and not as in the film “2012: doomsday” or in other apocalypseic movies, when there is still a salvation destiny. At the “Melancholia” and Von Trier the whole world ends and there is no saving fate. Yes indeed, it is possible that we should all die suddenly. But the optimism of this film lies precisely in understanding this, and simultaneously in living with the most passionate, lively, long-term life.

We will die, and there is neither a proper way nor a good time for that. That is why we can live with greater passion and vitality.