Death Awareness; Why Facing It Lightens the Way We Live
A reflection on death awareness and the quiet clarity it brings Death awareness begins with a simple truth we all carry, even if we rarely say it out loud: every life ends. Not someday in the abstract—but truly, eventually, and unavoidably. Still, for many of us, death remains something distant. Out of sight. Unspeakable until […]
Your Heart, the Moon, and the Road Back Again
Your heart beats about 72 times each minute. Without asking for attention, without praise, it just… continues. Through joy, grief, stillness, and chaos. Quietly, it does its work. Over a lifetime, your heart will generate more than 15,000 megajoules of energy. That’s enough to drive a truck to the Moon—and back.* It’s a striking comparison. […]
What Does Choice Look Like? A Global Glimpse at Assisted Dying
When we think about death, we don’t often think about choice. We think about loss. Fear. Timing we can’t control. But across the world, people are quietly asking a deeper question: What does it mean to have agency at the end of life? What does it look like to die with intention, not just inevitability? […]
A Conversation About the Right to Die On Your Own Terms
Death. It is the one certainty we all share, the threshold we cannot avoid. Yet we rarely speak of it — tiptoeing around its inevitability, as though silence might keep it at bay. But what if we approached death differently? What if we honored it as part of life’s sacred journey, giving attention not only to how […]
Why Would I Prepare for Death—If I’m Not Dying?
Because sometimes, clarity brings peace—long before the end. You may not be facing a terminal diagnosis.There may be no urgency, no crisis, no reason—at least not one anyone else can see. And yet, here you are.Wondering.Is it strange that I want to talk about death? Is it too soon to prepare? What does “preparing” even […]
