Thread: How do you deal with your own mortality?

Originally Posted by bluefinger

I can answer that:

Your Mum.

Without her, you wouldn't be alive. There, an answer to life.

That would be the prelude to or cause of life. The answer to life is living, if you;re philosophical, or death, if you believe that the universe abhors life.

As to how I deal with my mortality, whenever I remember that I am, to all my knowledge, alive, and so far live has a recorded fatality rate of immeasurably close to 100% (does not include those still living), I simply think, "Oh, come on. I'm not dead yet. (monty python holy grail voice) How do you know I'm going to die? I could die tomorrow, I could just have a spontaneous remission from this mortality thing that's been going around. Why the heck do ya assume that since most living things are now dead, everyone alive will eventually die too? So what! Probably, but I can wait until it becomes a concern to worry, and it probably won;t be a concern by the time anything;s permanent." (note: I intend to hedge my bets with life insurance, and probably a will.)