The Celebration of Death.

Should we instead approach death in self-resignation? Isn't death one of the two fundamental facts of life (the other is taxes, as the saying goes)? On the other hand, hy would any life-affirming celebration forget about the contrast between life and death? In celebrating life, death is always realized in some sense. It is in the background of the celebration, the base upon which the individual's celebration, their monument to their love of life, is erected. Death cannot be resigned, for there would be no cause for celebration. Why not, then, also celebrate death? Not in the sense that one wishes for death; when one celebrates life, or any aspect of it, one does not wish for it. How could they, when they are immediately granted with their desires. Their celebration is generated by some symbolic meaning found in life, meaning that generates a sens of joy or reverence. Death has meaning also, and being bound to life necessarily, it instantiates an occasion for celebration. But death is rarely experienced by us in our lives, while we experience life everyday. Rather than resign ourselves from the meaning of death, we should embrace its meaning and find in it some kind of celebration, though perhaps not necessarily the rejoicing of the masses. Now American uneral ceremonies too are a kind of celebration, although more rigidly regulated and constraining to the individual participants.Similarly, the image from the movies of the gangstas passing around liquor after the death of one of their homies strikes us as a kind of celebration. In many ways, we already celebrate death. What then, is particularly revolting about celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden?