avoiding destiny

You can't escape life and death. We know we are alive, and we know we're going to die. Even though this will happen, we are always trying to avoid it. When death does come to us, we freak out because we don't know how to handle it. I think what scares us the most is what happens after death. If we were sure of what happens after we die, it wouldn't be such a mystery, such a scary event. I believe human race created heaven and hell to make death easier. Everyone tries to be good in order to have a place in heaven, and even though hell is described as a horrible place, people prefer to believe they're going to hell than to not know we're they're headed.
I also think that having a loved one face death is harder than if it came to us. When you're dead, you don't suffer, (at least thats what we try to belive), but those who are still alive do, either because they miss the person that left or because they feel they had many things they never said to him/her.
We are very sellfish when it comes to death and only think of how it affects us. if we're going to die, we think of the things we never got to do and how in 50 years we'll be forgoten. When someone close dies, all we think about is how that affects us and how we're going to miss that person.
"Gilgamesh" explains Enkidu's death as a punishment from the gods. Gilgamesh is the one that ends up suffering and in order for his close brother/friend to be remembered, he has a statue built. " Gilgamesh called together the maker of statues, lapidaries, forgers, workers in copper and gold, and commanded that there may be made a statue of him, of Enkidu, the companion, to honor his deeds." (p.47) Gilgamesh talks about how much he misses Enkidu and remembers all the times they spent together. " Together, we killed Huwawa, together, we fought the bellowing bull of heaven and killed the bull, and together, the two of us, sat down to rest." (p.45)We can relate with what Gilgamesh is feeling because he is going through what almost everyone goes through when faced with death. At the end, Gilgamesh goes to find a way to avoid death, which is something many onf us look for but know is impossible to find.