Happiest, do you remember the davening? Mi Yamut? Mi b’kitzo? Who will die, in their time? It is only by the grace of Hashem that he blessed these Holy Neshomos with such amazing arichas yomim to begin with. Of course they deserved it, but who is to say that others don’t. It is ONLY Hashem who decides who will reach such an amazing age, who will die in “their time” and who will die when it is not in their time or b’derech ha’tevah.
If Hashem decides that now is the time, or at this time I will teach my Holy people what it means to die b’derech hatevah at one’s appropriate time, then who are we to question that? Boruch Dayan Emes! We were fortunate to have these amazing Tzadikim and role models in our generation. Let us ONLY hear news that old people have passed b’zmaneyhem b’derech hatevah, from old age after living full and happy lives fulfilling their tafkidim here on this world to go on to reap the rewards in the world to come.
Happiest, dying is part of the cycle of life. No one lives forever. But when we hear about people who die past 100 years, we have to be happy even in sadness. This is still b’derech hatevah. It is a natural thing and it is not a tragedy it is normal. They have earned their Olam Habah and they move on to the next phase.
As a young person going to shul with my mom a”h, I would sit upstairs in the ezras noshim and ask her why the older women her age were all crying during davening. Now I am one of those women that are crying during davening.When we daven Rosh Hashana and we say “Mi b’mayim, Mi b’esh, etc.” People my age have lost loved ones and acquaintances and have read of tragedies like this past summer, or the young bochur who was washed off the shore in Australia just a few years back who lived in my neighborhood. These words have so much more meaning to us now. So when I saw the news about the petiras I said BDE, and I thought it is sad for us, but how amazing, what a life they had, what an impact they made, what a bracha to die at the right time from natural causes and how they earned their Olam Habah.
It is all in the way you look at things, the camera’s eye or angle, the perspective you are coming from. Be happy sweet girl, you have a long and healthy life ahead of you. G’mar Chasima Tova!