Thinking about Mortality doesn’t need to be Scary, so Why don’t we Speak about it More Often?
what I’ve learned from seeing my grandmother dying
‘Momento Mori’, said the Stoic philosophers. They argued that remembering our mortality gives us fuel for life and it ensures that we do not postpone anything. I think this is very wise advise, since I believe that we all know we’re going to die, but we don’t remember and remind ourselves of it enough. Death is this one and only certainty we have in life and still it’s far away from our every day lives. Why?
As being the most certain thing in life, death is also the most unpredicatble thing in life. The moment one often starts remembering death is when it gets closer, when it becomes less unpredictable, either in their own lives but often in the lives of their loved ones.
“In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction. Why is life more unpredictable than a football game? “ — Author: Joanna Eliot
Transformations in our understanding of life
Anthropologist Andrew Irving describes in his book The art of Life and Death, radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice how…
