The Physicality of Death Destroys Us, But the Idea of Death May Save Us
People are asleep; when they die, they awaken. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
We live in a world that is meticulously configured toward the avoidance of death. On an individual scale, we push it to the periphery of our consciousness. On an interpersonal scale, conversations involving the remembrance of death are labelled ‘morbid’, inappropriate, and improper. On a societal scale, the fields of medicine, media, and entertainment h…
