Superman

People die when they leave their bodies don’t they?

Perhaps they do perhaps they don’t, no one has come back from the dead to tell us otherwise. But yet we would like to believe that we would survive even death.

Such is the human vanity. Or our fear, may be its a little of both.

-About the Genome project, some even predicted, we would live to 1500 years.

Well, hardly in this world, in its present state, for he/she would have to do away with themselves before they reach a quarter of that age.

There is a nice story in our land of a period in which there was no death. The Lord Shiva “wasted” the god of death Yama in a fit of anger and did not appoint any one instead. Utter chaos ensued.

One of our poets did a hilarious piece on the aftermath. The world became so over crowded that its elder citizens had to be shut up in earthen pots( probably a reference to burial pots found in the land.),for others frequently trampled on them.

They were given little to eat and they had become so small to be taken for frogs and -they were every where! Starving them only made them smaller, not deader.

People were at their wits end because of the absence of death.

And they were very relieved when another god of death was finally appointed!

I do not know about the moral of the story, but in the original it was funnier than anything I read.

Well let us expect that when the genetically created superman arrives the world is ready for him as Nietzhe thought