Read up Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. The book teaches all that since we know we’re all going to die, to be prepared for it at any time – meaning to be more involved in your life while you’re still living.

Great post..

Valkrieangel

I’ve been reading your excellent blog for a while, it is time for a comment.

My first impression after reading this was that these days it is a bravery to write about this subject at all. Death and mourning are so banished from our lives that we don’t even recognize their right to step in whenever they please. The feeling of insignificance, as you point out, is what seems to me the biggest issue here. It is not the wasted time and regrets, but merely the fear of our ego that we do not count in front of death. Quite sobering. I’ve lost a few close friends and relatives. There is no other experience in life that can raise so high the level awareness regarding the value of life. And also diminish the ego without leaving any option to appeal.

One more thing. Facing death has always the same impact, whether you say that you’ve been through it before or not.

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This kind of empowering attitude has been easy for me to embrace with the loved ones I have lost, because they have all been older and suffering.

It’s much more difficult to focus on the positive when you lose someone unexpectedly as you have. It’s a testament to the great person you are.

This is just a rationalization of death as a good thing.

It is required only in a society that can’t do anything about aging.

Luckily, today we’ve got http://www.sens.org and http://www.mprize.org.

Oh, sure… we’d all like to believe that ‘we are just here to learn’ and that ‘this life is just a phase’ and that ‘there is more life after this one’…

But come on… deep down inside, we all know we’re going back to where we were before we were conceived/born: The Ultimate Nothingness.

And you know that The Ultimate Nothingness is, right?

That’s the period of billions of years from the Big Bang to your first conscious moment that went by in absolutely no time whatsoever.

The sites http://www.sens.org and http://www.longevitymeme.org do a good job debunking and dismantling all sorts of obsolete pro-death rationalizations.

It’s worth a look if you’re serious about living forever.

My condolences on the loss to you and the people that care about. I’ve been to a few funerals, and your ability to see the “upside” is admirable.

Your list of reflections that the experience has left you with will bring value to anyone who reads that list. I was originally going to pick out a favorite, but I think I like them all just the same.

Personally, I believe that we “return from whence we came” and that physical death is just the end of this chapter. I think we are here to learn, and to transmit what we have learned back to the creative source.

That being the case, learning is not an option, but rather a part of life itself.

Thanks for this post. All my best.

- Aaron