Death is inevitable.

Being afraid of death is something that affects all of us. It is a source of anxiety that reaches every aspect of our lives.

The way our society worships the youth and persistently avoids the elderly is where the problem lies, it shows the attitude we have towards death – YOLO – You only live once so do everything you can without thinking about the consequences? Is that what the youth believes today?

Our desperate need for distraction, along with the worshipping of celebrities and following. Judging the book by its covers – subconsciously we are all doing that.

What used to be called an ‘age of beautification’ which hits all of us at one time during our lifetime in the normal course of existence, does not have the same meaning now. This time is somewhere after the puberty and teenage years, as the individual looks into the mirror and sees the vessel that takes him through his/her travels through life. A few years of fixing your hair, make up addictions etc to have a presentable exterior(appearance) – teaches automatically after a few years, and it is more of a realisation – that ageing is an inevitable fact. Once realised, all of us humans take our own course to seek meaning. This is the time when finally we have realised that life is more than how we have grown up and thought it to be. At some point during our lives, we all face this glass shattering reality.

Through the glamour and careful understanding of human subconscious behaviour, large beauty corporations have promoted cosmetics and beauty treatments in our faces to an extent that we see, we buy, we run out and we repeat – Welcome to consumerism.

With the advancement of technology, will history look back at us as being the stupidest civilisation or the cleverest of them all? Are we really denying death? Is this what the religions warned us about? The fact that we will be so absorbed that we wont be able to see what is right in our faces?