I don't think any of us are "ready to die". Once you lose your life, you really have nothing left. To put it bluntly, almost all of us, out of reaction, will do anything to stay alive. A few weeks ago I saw a movie called "The Grey Zone" about Jewish prisoners in concentration camps who were used by the Nazis to do their dirty deeds, in exchange for a few more months of life. In one harrowing scene, the Jewish workers lead fellow Jews, just off the trains, to the gas chamber. The workers' job was to deceive their fellow Jews into thinking that they were being disinfected, and even though we don't see the action as the gassings take place, we hear the clamoring against the walls...And that's the point. These people sacrificed their very dignity, even for just a few more months of life. Who truly knows what's beyond our very existence. Although I'm one to believe that there is life after death, I don't think the afterlife is any more enlightening...
Review of The Grey Zone
