Generally speaking death is motivating , it gives a desperate and necessary tone to life , and impose a dynamic way and trajectory on what most people try to achieve .
It would be quiet healthy to live every day as though life is going to go on for ever , but mortality , for some reason , is always looming and hovering somewhere behind doors of our imagination . Steve Jobs for one had given several speeches about how motivated he was by the prospect of death .
Epicurus was famous for arguing that death is nothing to us , and nothing to fear when it arrives , we are not around to experience it . Epicurus recognized that most people are better off postponing death and living longer , premature death -- a shorter life -- is usually fearful and scary . But death , the event itself , he convincingly argued , is no cause for alarm .
Nozick of Harvard university invited and led his readers to imagine nothingness as a force sucking things into non-existence , I would go a step further in explaining and say ; Death par excellence , is the force by itself leading and sucking us into non-existence and nothingness.
Each of us in this world , is not for a very long time , and within the few years of our lives , have to acquire what ever there is to know of this strange planet , its inhabitants , their cruel ways , and the not so cruel ones , and their place in the universe .
The world is full of things that are tragic or comic , heroic or bizarre and surprising , those who fail to be interested in the spectacle of life and its extravaganzas , are forgoing one of the most important privileges that existence has to offer .
It is only because we humans are mortals , that time is limited to us . Why we need to conquer speed , time and distances as these would have no meaning for an immortal .
My thanks to all my good readers and friends for their time and patience , salamat.
So basically it is not a not a problem to die (because we are not around to experience it) , and even great to know that we will soon die ( because it focuses the mind and increases productivity).
I always thought it's not a good idea to die, but your point is well taken Capt'n.
I really like the last statement - that if we were immortals - time, distance, and speed would be of no consequence :)
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