DEATH

The largest, but always easily forgotten, certainty is that all our decisions are unfolding against the backdrop of a giant ticking death clock. We should listen to its beat and take its daunting messages to heart. The thought of Death has a habit of highlighting our responsibilities to ourselves and of weakening our concern for living according to what is expected of us by society. It is a terrifying agent of authenticity. Death may lend us a perverse new sort of confidence to tackle challenges. By frightening us about one enormous thing, it may make us less scared of the many smaller obstacles in our way. Our lives will not be what they could be unless we submit pretty much every choice we face to the arbiter of eternity and oblivion. The thought of Death is the guarantor of the meaningfulness of our lives.

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