Celebrating our Death Anniversaries

Our birthdays, anniversaries and all other special dates of our lives, once known, are awaited, cherished and celebrated every year. As soon as the moment has occurred, the day is etched in our lives. The day starts signifying a sentimental value, which it had none before. All that was required was to know the day; for the moment to occur.

Living the years of our life, we don’t realize that this would be the day we start our job next year, or the day we might marry some year, or the day we parent a child some year, or even the day we lose our parent next year.

What if we knew the day we were going to die? (only the date and month) Just like the day we were born does not tell us how long will we live; our anniversaries show the start of our relationships but not how long will they last. Similarly, if we knew about the Doomsday but not know when would it come, what would it be like? Would we follow the same routine of our special days where we await, cherish and celebrate? Or would we be racists here too?

Impending Death anniversaries when celebrated by others, depend on our relations with them. Some would cry for us, some would pray for us, some would wish long life for us, some would wish for our death right now but how would we celebrate our impending death anniversary?

Would it be a harbinger of fear or a torch-bearer of hope?

P.S.: Please don’t take a ‘dead’ selfie!