Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I live for now, not for what happens after I die.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.
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.
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.