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Living and sweating it out when death is an inevitability.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 On death, Woody Allen asked: "I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is, will they be able to break a twenty?"  My own death seemed somewhat abstract to me until, at nineteen years old, a close relative was diagnosed with cancer. In addition to dealing with that transition, I started dwelling more on my own finite life. Today, I'd probably laugh if I overheard myself at nineteen obsessing so much on my own mortality; for one of many things, I had many more years ahead of me at nineteen than I do now at forty.  A frequent question I have had is what motivates hard workers to work so hard if life is finite. Some might answer that they do not see life as finite, whether because they believe in an afterlife or because they view life as extending beyond just one person to embrace other sentient beings other than themselves...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).