It’s devastating to lose a loved one, but I’m the sort of person who doesn’t cry at funerals. It’s not so much that I’m stoic and completely unemotional about the said person’s passing - it’s just that I see no reason to put so much emphasis on something that’s instantaneous compared to living.

A friend and I were discussing this last night and it made me think a bit on how I truly view death. Death itself is painless, if one thinks about it. One can die from painful health problems (i.e. terminal illness, torture, etc.), one can die because of an idiotic choice or reckless behavior, and/or one can die because it was one’s time to die. There’s of course the matter of believing in an afterlife, which is a subject I’ll try to skip in this post.

All this being said, I find it bewildering that so many people are afraid of death. Why? One minute we’re on this earth, the next we’re gone. The best thing to do is LIVE until that moment comes. How you live and what you live for is of course up to you.