We are born to die. We die as we live. Today, then, describes our death. Some men are blown out like candles. Others convulse and cry out. A few depart lucid and lit.
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Countercultural
In light of the first of the Four Noble Truths (Life is suffering), shouldn’t birth be swaddled in sorrow and death elicit a sober joy?
Death is the opposite of birth, not Life. Life has no opposite.
Birth
What seems like a bad thing is humus for a good thing. A tree is first of all the total destruction of a seed.
His days are like grass
By itself, a long life has no significance. Jesus was dead at 33. Pol Pot lived twice as long.
Neighbours
When his son died, Emerson looked hard at grief. He later recalled it as a shallow emotion, depthless and unreal. No stoic lives far from the fact that we are born to die.
