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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.