Should we die for a cause?

“A small night storm blows / Saying ‘falling is the essence of a flower / Preceding those who hesitate” Yukio Mishima.

Matilija Poppies — Gordon Mortenson (Woodcut on print)

Just like Yukio Mishima, whose life’s beliefs culminated for him in that singular moment of his ritualistic suicide and subsequent death, so too could we have a belief in our lives that is so strong we would die for it. This belief, physically manifested in a cause we could work or strive towards…