Dying - A Creative Art

Dying - a joyful goodbye

 by Osho

Make everything creative, make the best out of the worst -- that's what I call 'the art'. And if a man has lived his whole life making every moment and every phase of it a beauty, a love, a joy, naturally his death is going to be the ultimate peak of his whole life's endeavor. The last touches... his death is not going to be ugly as it ordinarily happens every day to everyone.

If death is ugly, that means your whole life has been a wastage. Death should be a peaceful acceptance, a loving entry into the unknown, a joyful goodbye to old friends, to the old world. There should not be any tragedy in it.

Osho, excerpted from Beyond Enlightenment #28

In this Osho quote about dying it is stated that death has no tragedy in it. Dying is an opportunity to be creative - as creative as while living: Making the best out of the worst...