“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead,” John Updike
wrote,
“so why … be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?” Half a millennium earlier, Montaigne posed the same question somewhat differently in his magnificent meditation on
death and the art of living:
“To lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago.”
Yet mortality continues to petrify us —
our own, and perhaps even more so
that of our loved ones. And if the adult consciousness is so thoroughly unsettled by the notion of death
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