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Burying Your Friends — Aging and Death — Death Meditation XXIX
Daily Meditation 1,030–12/30/2024
Yesterday was my 37th birthday. Gettin’ to be an old fogey, now — I officially have rolled back my old man bedtime from 8:15pm to 7:45pm so as to best wake up early and curmudgeonly yell at young whippersnappers to stay off my lawn.
ANYWAY
As I’ve aged and written these Meditations every day for 1,000+ days, one major theme I’ve focused on is death. As you probably have realized from the 28 Death Meditations (last one here), it’s something on my mind pretty often. Heck — at 28 of them over 1,030 days, that’s one Death Meditation every 37 days, on average!
I am not “obsessing” over death in any morbid way, but rather in a preparedness way. We’re all gonna die…
But the worst part is some of us — friends, family, spouses, even our children — will die before we do. That’s the worst bit.
It occurred to me the other day as I looked at a picture of me with some friends that one — who is fairly older than many of us, in their 50s — we will very likely bury long before our own time. Perhaps not, things can happen, but statistically speaking…
There are two unpleasant facts about aging and life and death:
