DEATH: Culminating Point in One’s Life

Death does not simply occur in man’s life.  It is not simply an event that overtakes in his life.  Death is a free act.  It is an act of freedom, a highest act of freedom.  And since it is the highest, it drives man to reach his wholeness/totality.  In reaching his wholeness, man has logically lost his concupiscence which lessens his power to choose either good or evil.
 
Since death is a free act of man, then, man cannot do away himself with death.  For death is not an isolated point in man’s life.  In fact, man cannot but accept the reality of death.  He should realize the fruit the death can give, because through death, man reaches his totality, his completeness, and his finality.  Man is not man without death for it is in death that he would be completely man.  And so death is the culminating point in man’s life and not an isolated one.