In my first post on this series, “We Are All Going to Die, So Let’s Learn About It” I shared some of my early experiences with death, the fear I developed of death, along with the journey I started later in my life to learn more about death. In Part 2, I elaborated on these experiences and how they reshaped my understanding and view of death. Part 3 shared highlights of my time with Tom Sawyer, a near-death experiencer, which confirmed these new beliefs that there was indeed something to death. In this segment, we will consider the advantages of coming to grips with death as a part of life in contrast to the disadvantages of not.

My last post focused on Loneliness. It started by guessing what % of humanity both dealt with or is currently dealing with loneliness. I begin this post with a similar guess. First, I am defining “hardship” in this case to refer to chronic situations where a person in large part, struggles or endures a challenging circumstance that […]

Throughout our life we experience times when we are confronted with questions relating to the meaning and purpose of our life. These often surface during transformational times (e.g. after we have experienced a major loss, mid-life, retirement, etc.). We are often confronted with our own mortality during these times which naturally results in the contemplation […]