what does death really represent?

Death is a very big subject among people. Many say we go to heaven when we die or hell or we just seize to exist finally. I believe that death represents the ending of a series of events that happened in real time, good, bad, doesn�t matter. Death is like having something say that our time to better ourselves is up and it�s time to expire. In the death of Ivan Iylich we have Ivan who hated his married life but never really did anything to better it. He stayed in a loveless marriage till it he died. He suffered greatly in the last months of his life and yet he did showed no effort in trying to make the best of what he had. He lived for his job, judging people on a daily basis. The irony is that he had to make the best decisions according to the situation in place. Yet when it came to his own life he made the worse decision and that was to stay in his loveless marriage and bare death bitterly aside his family. I believe that this story has a moral a very deep and hidden one. We have to live life the way we see fit and make adjustments along the way and make the best decisions we can to make our lives a little happier and much more bearable. Seeing Ivan die should be more of a wake up call in a sense telling us that we should not follow Ivan�s example and not change things in our lives that are bothering us. We have to seize the moment and do away with whatever is wrong in our lives. We have to try to make right something that might of gone wrong before it�s too late to do anything about it. I think death is the break away point. When death is about to strike it�s telling us that we�ve had our chance and now it�s time to turn the page into the unknown. I�m sure Ivan was happy in a sense that he was dying because he finally knew he could break away from his loveless marriage and a daughter whom only cared about herself. In a way death was probably the only solution Ivan had in changing everything he did wrong. He couldn�t really make it right anymore but at least he wasn�t going to make anymore wrong decisions or continue living a life he didn�t want to live. The only thing death represented to Ivan was freedom from the pains he was suffering.