Here is a news item that appeared in Times of India.

Ahmedabad, Jun 8 (PTI) A principal of an industrial training institute, based in Vadgam of Mehsana, killed himself to "experience and understand" death, police said today.

"My act is not suicide, but an attempt to experience and understand death," said the suicide note left behind by Ramesh Devmani, principal of the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) based at Vadgam in Mehsana.

Devmani jumped into Narmada irrigation canal near Jhundal village in Gandhinagar district yesterday, police said adding that he ended his life following the intense urge he had to experience death.

"Whenever I happen to go to funeral of a relative or a loved one, I would develop a strong curiosity to know about death as it is an enigma, a puzzle unresolved by the human kind," Devmani wrote in his suicide note.

DEATH - is a dreaded subject, which no one likes to discuss about. The Principal at Ahmedabad must be a perverted psychic patient, who ended his life in a foolish manner. May his soul rest in peace.

However, since this is the ultimate destination for all living creatures, I would like to quote some eminent writers who made an attempt to define death, though they were unable to defy it.

P.B.Shelley wrote a poem on 'death' in 1820, which goes as follows:
"Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death - and we are death".

Mark Twain said: "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry".

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.- Somerset Maugham

"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down".

Undertaker is a person, whose business is to prepare the dead for the burial and to arrange and manage funerals.

Here is a tongue twister on undertaker: " An undertaker undertook to undertake an undertaking. The undertaking the undertaker undertook was the hardest undertaking the undertaker ever undertook to undertake".

I saw a sticker on a truck, which read: "If you're going to overtake me, the undertaker will undertake your case".

One thing is sure that, when the end is getting closer and nearer, all should have the courage to smile at it , welcome it and face it. That is the real NIRVANA.


Live happily as long as you live and leave happily before you leave - this is the essence of a well lived life.

After anybody's death they say - కీర్తిశేషులు but really most of them are - అప కీర్తిశేషులు only.

Let us go through a collection of famous quotes on death.

He can't read his tombstone when he is dead.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Once you are dead, you are made up of life.

Our body is like a rented house. Its key is with God. We don't know when he wants us to vacate it.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that, I think everything will be alright. - Alice Thomas Ellis

Death is the tyrant of imagination. - Barry Cornwall

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. - Khalil Gibran

Death is no more than passing from one room to another. But there is a difference for me, you know. Because in that room I shall be able to see. - Helen Keller.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. - Carter Burwell


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