Death doula Alua Arthur says life is better if you 'get real' about the end
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245264129/death-doula-alua-arthur-briefly-perfectly-human
I think one of the great failures of Western Society is the apparent taboo about talking or thinking of death. We pretend that the next pill or potion will help us live forever, fueling our consumer society.
I feel that death is a passage as birth is a passage, and that we should acknowledge and plan for it. Life and death are intimately intertwined and one cannot exist without the other.
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We are so completely obsessed with youth and avoiding age, that we fail to realize, we all are leaving here. And we are aging every second before we do it.
And once death comes, people don't know how to deal with that either. At least that's my take. Most people don't.