Death as a teacher: What we can learn about life

Death as a teacher: What we can learn about life

Fear – that’s what many people associate with the end of life. We don’t have to fear death and can learn from it – by taking to heart what people who are dying say.

Most of the time he forces himself on. He doesn’t introduce himself, rarely announces himself, but is simply there, taking his grandfather, his sister or his own mother with him. Sometimes it places itself in the shadow of a difficult diagnosis and forces you to accept its presence and with it your own finiteness. Pretty penetrating. And then there is age itself, to which he clings like the hands of a great clock of life. With every year we live, more problems accompany us. We are slowly moving towards the statistical age at death, but what does that mean, they are just numbers. Our steps are shortened anyway, so don’t fall.

Source: Stern

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