Final Destination and the Avoidance of Death
The moral case for realizing that you can't fight death.
You can't cheat death.
You can't trick death into thinking that it got you when you didn't. You can't bargain with death because there's nothing that death wants. You can't give death things to make it go away. You can't appeal to death's sense of compassion or the injustice of it all. You can't tell death that it's being unfair and that other people deserve it more. Death doesn't care what's fair or unfair. It doesn't believe in right or wrong. What's worse is that you can't even kill death because it's not alive. Death simply is what it is and there's nothing you can do about it, no matter how much people want to believe otherwise. Sooner or later death is going to get you. The most that you can hope for is that you can at least avoid death for as long as possible.
There's a few different ways you can do this. You can eat healthy and exercise. You can decide not to do things such as sky dive or swim with sharks or other risky behaviors. If you're really looking to avoid death, you can avoid things like driving, smoking, doing drugs and anything that's going to make it more likely that you'll die sooner. Avoiding all these things can make you live as long as humanly possible, but even then you will end up dying eventually. This on top of the fact that you can't rule out a completely accidental death of some kind. You might be hit by lightning or a car which you're not driving could go out of control. It might even be as simple as slipping on some water you didn't see was in your bathroom. Or something like choking on a piece of food which went down the wrong way.
No matter what you try to do, death is coming for you. People can sometimes become obsessed with the idea of trying to avoid death at any costs. They see it everywhere and it ends up as their whole reason for being. Somewhat ironically, this isn't much of a life. It's literally the opposite of life in so many ways. Yet it can be reassuring to your understanding of life. It can make you appreciate everything that life has to offer. If you can get beyond the reality of death.
Final Destination is all about the avoidance of death. Alex Browning, as played brilliantly by Devon Sawa, and the other members of flight 180 have managed to avoid death. While others they know were unable to thanks to tragic circumstances, through a freak accident of fate they were saved. Just because they managed it once though, doesn't mean that death won't try again, and again, and again. Until it finally succeeds in some way. Life and the avoidance of death simply can't compete with the truth of being alive in the first place. That death is going to get you.
It's only a matter of time.
Do yourself a favour and explore the avoidance of death by checking out Final Destination as soon as you can.
You can watch Final Destination on Tubi and Netflix.
Up Next:
..and then there's the avoidance of life through death. The saddest part. I loved the original Final Destination film. The new concept of signs we all get in life that we miss if we're not paying attention. I have friends deeply into numerology who would understand this concept. The thing about birth is that we don't remember it. But we can imagine it after birth. The reality of death is that we can't remember it and we can't imagine it after death.
Philosophically speaking, death is the only true personal experience in our lives. Birth? not very personal for the child. But death? it's yours and yours only, you can't even die for someone else.