How To Create A Healthy Relationship With Death
“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
Tecumseh
People have an awful relationship with mortality, and it’s not a surprise considering the broader societal context.
Society implicitly teaches you to avoid thinking about death through distraction. It doesn’t need to mention the subject when a vice controls you, whether that be junk food, social media, chasing status, etc.
If you didn’t already know, society doesn’t serve your best interest. It certainly doesn't want you to get in touch with the finite nature of your reality.
What inspired me to write about this?
As a twenty-four-year-old, I’m grateful to have a more holistic understanding of mortality than my peers because I have witnessed it multiple times.
