I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.