The "Deadly" perspective

Death- (sounds deadly, isnt it?) to me is the inevitable reality and the life's (or lack of it) truth . Any news of death creates an emotional turmoil in me. My rational and emotional selfs get into a mental sparring mode. This leads to some refined perspectives that help me to evolve as a human.

The following are few of those perspectives:

• Life is about racing towards the grave as each day, hour and minute passes by and nothing much.
• Life is nothing but keeping ourselves busy till we die. Keeping ourselves so busy that our logical self denies the fact of us not existing sometime in future.
• Our senses ( the famous five :) ) help us in this path of deviating from the inevitable reality. They keep our brains busy by making us hungry, thirsty, sleepy etc etc.
• Humans are out-and-out irrational, complicating their lives so much that they, in effect, speed up their race towards the grave. The funniest part is, they do not realize this irrationality even on their death beds.
• We are so arrogant about our existence. On the other hand, we should be so humble accepting the fact that "Humans are so weak that we cant even control our own existence".
• One perspective that helps me in most of my bad days is the feeling that says , "Atleast I am alive and breathing and there is something I can do about this task at hand."

I will keep adding the perspectives as they are churned out. But, seriously, isn't it a strange feeling that, we are after all a biochemical mass that will decompose one day.

I am not saying this in a sad way but with a feeling of astonishment, that it is all around us and we dont sense it or we actually dont want to sense it. So, are we really rational?