You are neither Dead nor Dying

Death is universal.

 All men must die.

 Death and taxes, the only two guarantees in life.

 Many people have parted this world since i came into being. Many more people are still living, fearing when they too will join the inevitable emptiness that is death.

 People try to put a fuzzy coat on death. Try to make it a good thing.

 But people are too concerned with right and wrong, good and bad.

 Life and death do not play by these rules.

 Life does what it wants, like a wanton toddler, smashing lives in its path and wondering where ever it desires.

 Death is typically a bit slower then life, if it was too fast it would catch up with life and the game would end.

 Death wanders and floats around nudging lives into its empty embrace.

 But sometimes Death is more than welcomed into a persons life. Some people just aren't ready for life brash existence. Its weird ways of doing things, the seemingly random outcomes.

 So they call for death.

 Sometimes death for others, maybe it will help their own lives some how.

 And sometimes they call death to their own doorstep.

 They ask death to come in and take them with it.

 "please death i cannot take life's nonsense any longer, i have had enough of this world. i feel unimportant, like a failure, i cant do anything right, I've made terrible choices, and this pain is too much."

 Death sometimes turns them away, it calls out to life and tell it to take care of this person, they need life.

 And then sometimes Death takes it toll.