“We are finite beings within infinity, and if we are alive to this, it sharpens our appreciation of the fact that we exist.”
The main question of this talk is, “What’s wrong with dying?”
It’s not often how I think about it, because I understand death is a necessity. Life requires life. Life continues through the death of other life. Even as a vegetarian, I need plant life to live. My cats, obligate carnivores, need creatures to die so they are sustained.
Life needs life.
So what is wrong with dying?
I can think of many personal, selfish things that make dying “wrong”, but I understand that my desires are at fault. Wanting to go on forever does not make it right, or even a good. Not in the scheme of things. Yes, I will be inconvenienced by death, and yes, I desire to go on endlessly (unlike the woman in the Ted Talk, I think I’d be okay being Sisyphus)...but I am aware that all that she says is true.
So let’s ask “what’s wrong with dying?”
Let’s look at it logically. Let’s consider how dying inconveniences us, and do what we can to mitigate that inconvenience as much as possible.
