Easter and Qing Ming and Death

Both festivals, their dates are not fixed in Gregorian calendar, but both normally fall on somewhere between the end of March and April. This year, both fall quite closed together. Both deals in some measure with the Death. One is to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the other one is tomb sweeping day, the graves of our relatives who had departed. 

I don't remember if Qing Ming is a public holiday in Malaysia. But Easter is certainly a significant festival in countries with majority Christians. So I just glad I can have some free time today, and to be able to write this passage. 

Death is always a big question for human. Fear and grief is almost always linked to Death, because regardless the notion of heaven and hell exists or not, and whether the dying person is going back to the nature or whatever religion have told us, wherever the person is going, he is leaving our world. Sometimes that's reason enough to mourn. 

I am thinking now, of what is the best answer if a child ask me the questions about the Death. I simply don't know how to answer. I tried to search my memory, the part of memory when I first became aware of the existence of Death. 

Well I think it happened when my grandfather, my mother side, died when I was 3 years old. I remember I was sent to my godmother's house, so that my mom can have time to arrange to funeral. Then my godmom took me to the funeral to see mom. My sister was still in my mom's belly at that time. It is so vivid most probably because emotions were involved or something novel was learnt, in this case, the notion of Death. 

And then a question floating in my head, what if I was there on spot, witnessing the resurrection of Jesus? Or in broader sense, what if I see someone comes back from Death? Put aside the science for the moment, I think I would probably freaked out. The first thing I would have suspected is zombie apocalypse. No offense to Jesus or and Christians though, just thought it might be a funny question to ponder upon. 

May be I watched too many zombie movies......