Have you ever thought about death as a part of life?
We’re born, we live, and we die. That’s the sequence we’ve known ever since we began to understand ourselves as human beings. But there’s a common tendency to focus only on the first two stages - as if the third doesn’t exist, or if it does, it should be swept under the rug. Death is seen as the end, the blackout, the abrupt cut that brings everything to a halt. But what if that’s not quite true? What if death is simply part of life - just as natural as being born or growing up? The truth is, we live in a society that’s terrified of death. We avoid talking about it, avoid dealing with it, and even avoid accepting it. As if, by pretending it’s not there, we could somehow trick it. From an early age, we’re taught to fear it - as if it were a glitch in the system, an anomaly that comes to steal everything good. And even when we do face it, whether through grief or reflection, we often feel alone in it, because pain is still seen as weakness, and death as something to be “go...
