Transience and Coping with Death

  Transience Final Blogpost by: Aniyah Ehiemua (H2)   I briefly touched on the Japanese philosophy of transience and how it plays so many important parts of our lives during midterm presentation. While I did get to explain what the philosophy is and where it originated from, I did not get to touch on exactly how it can affect our perception of how we view death.        In the Western world, death is typically seen as a very depressing and sad thing. We as humans tend to dread death, and we try our hardest to avoid it as much as we possibly can. Whenever we sense that someone is near the end of their lives, we tend to get down in spirit, and our thoughts turn negative. When someone does die, it is almost like time stops, and the world turns gray and somber. It is almost as if there is a rain cloud pooling over our thoughts, and everything has turned pessimistic and negative. We cry and grieve, and piece together funerals for the dead. At these social gatherings (well less social since t