week 11 blog 2

After looking mostly at life and how it should be lived for most of the semester, the topic of death was an interesting change of pace.  Death is one of those things that a lot of people don’t want to think about.  They usually just say it’ll happen someday but it’s a far off thing so it isn’t anything to worry about now.  But is this way of thinking really a good way to think about death?  When I really thought about it I realized something.  Our lives are made meaningful by the fact that we die.  If everyone lived forever than what would be the point?  The fact that our lives come to an end, means that we only have so long to live, there’s only so much time that we have to do the things we want to do.  Death could be lurking around every corner.  We don’t know when we will die but it will happen.  Like it was said in class, you could get hit by a bus right after class.  Just think about it.  You could die at any moment.  But how does this knowledge effect the way we live our lives?  For the people who tell themselves that death is far off, it doesn’t do anything.  But for those who truly come to understand, it can make life that much sweeter.  When I think about it, if I could die at any moment why would I not want to live my life to the fullest?  When my death comes, whether it comes 60 years from now or tomorrow, I don’t want to have my last thoughts be of all the things I wasn’t able to do.  I want to be able to think that my life was worth living, and that it meant something.