Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.