"Choosing
to identify with positive concepts... makes
a positive future possible; it also makes it easier to
face yourself and deal with reality in the present."
What if we didn’t fear death? Even more, what if we perceived meaningful and satisfying connections between death and life, so that death represented something besides a blank wall, an end to be feared, a final good by to all we know and care about?
Do you think looking forward to dying would make life here and now easier?
Many philosophers have debated this question through centuries, but most have agreed that the uncertainty most of us feel makes the prospect of our own deaths and the loss of those close to us harder to bear.
A man who felt no such uncertainty wrote the following account. As a dying man’s vision, it must stand on its own merits. Inevitably, every reader will react in his or her own way. As you open yourself to an intuitive response (the only evaluation possible), remember one thing: sooner or later, your own chance to evaluate the truth of this material will surely come.