Parukkai - a gain of cooked rice

Parukkai  - a grain of cooked rice

This Tamil Short Film depicts the intensity of poverty after the sudden death of the husband of a poor hut dweller having two kids to feed. Immediately, for the first thirteen days after death, neighbors provide some food, taking turns. Thereafter she has no money, nor job nor any stock of rice. Her efforts to get a job are disappointing. The boy also tries but no one would give him a job. She squeezes every drop milk out of her own breasts to keep the younger one alive, letting herself and first child starve. The story stops at the elder one asking:  "Ma, can I die so that both of you will have food from neighbors for a few days?" Very touching. You may call it a silent movie as there is very little dialogue. So language does not matter.

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What do you do when you die?

What do you do when you die?

When a person dies he stops breathing. The body is no more sensitive
to its environment and starts decaying as none of the physical body
preservation mechanisms work. You cease to be. You become it. The
moment someone dies, say in a hospital, he is referred to as 'the
body' or it. "Has the body arrived?" we ask. No one refers to the body
which you assumed that it was yours, refers to that body as you by
your name. You cause some realization dawn in others. About
impermanency of life. May be you sadden or gladden some of them around
you.

But, about you or of you, what is that continues after you die? Is it
your Soul, spirit, your thoughts, effect of your deeds, Or some kind
of energy still lingering to be dissipated away slowly around from
that space / placeof death? Who knows for certain as to what happens?.
Those who say what happens have not experienced it. And those who have
experienced death are no more available to explain it.

Different religions tell different things about after death threats.
If you believe you may spend your last moments on earth in agony of
impending pain and experience of hell or be jubilated over some Peter
ready to usher you into Heaven.

While none of these questions or doubts can be answered, without
doubt, one thing is certain. Without doing anything specific at all,
one day or the other, you will surely gain the title: "The late
Mr…."

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