The seek of an "eternal life"

Quite parodoxic. I would guess that if my best friend, my companion, my borther die, the first thing I would wish to be is dead, but not seek for an eternal life. I would miss him too much, I wouldn't be able to stand being alive without him by my side knowing that he died without being me able to save him! I don't understand Gilgamesh reaction, the first thing he goes at to do is to find inmortality! Enkidu's death freaked him out! He fears death more thatn ever and his egocentrism leads him to do everything possible not to experience it. Absurd.

Death, a very debatable topic. Some say that we ought to do well in life so that when we die we go to heaven, on the contrary we would got to hell. Mother Culture says that to us since the day we are born. We grow uo thinking that, the "eternal life" comes after this life, if you are good your prise is heaven, if you sin your consequence is hell. This strongly disturbs me. I coudn't disagree more with that B.S. (sorry). Why should be base our actions and desitions on an eternal life we can't even prove to be real. What really matters and is important is today, no more but today. Do the best today, what for? For today, not for a stupid "eternal life". The desitions we take today affects us today, and will affect us everyday, why to worry about what happens when we die, if we are living? It is absurd, but the most amazing of this is that a very large porcent of the sosiety believes in this. The only thing that is nto denyable is the fact that nobody can be saved from dying, is the fate that we ALL have in common, and nevertheless we keep on avoiding it. Everybody fears death, because it is unknown. What would happen if we didn't fear death? We would probably live ourlifes to the limit! Doing all that our heart leads us to without even doubting it, we would accomplish so many things. Death is just a disguise, we don't know the real of it, why to be afraid? The real fears that could be accepted is to reach old age and know that you haven't lived your life the way it should be lived.

Amazing how we can relate, today with Gilgamesh, it is so evident, hilarious actually. "How-The-Old-Man-Once-Again-Becomes-a-Young-Man in the name of the plant that grows under the waters."pg 79. Today's name is "Botox" !! It is not a very profound analysis, but it actually shows us that we haven't really changed that much. Our goal is still be younger that what we are, we are still scared of growing old, why? Why should we? We are not satisfied with ourselves, and wanting to appear younger is just a way of saying that we want a second chance to do the things all over again.