How you live becomes what you leave.  Join the Death Positive Movement. Explore mortality in community through education, conversation and reflection. In our death-phobic modern culture, talking about death is taboo - even shunned - cloaked in a veil of discomfort that discourages open dialogue.   But most people really are not afraid to die; they are afraid they have never really lived.

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The fact is, each of us is subject to death.   We just do not know when it will happen.  Living in mystery is part of the beauty of being human.  When we live with the end in mind, we can approach each day with more purpose and gratitude.  When we consider that the meaning of our lives is in the hands of those we have touched, and that each interaction may be the last of its kind, we become more mindful of the consequences of our choices and the legacy we leave behind. When we know that the lives of those we love will inevitably come to an end, we hold them as precious, and can love them -- and ourselves -- more fully. 

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However, when we don't bring death and our mortal limits into our conversations and consciousness, we disconnect from life and from each other.  We take things for granted. We fill our lives with distraction. We forget those who failed to live forever.  We become orphaned from ancestors, and we become fearful of being forgotten, just as we forgot them.  We become numb to grief, as well as to gratitude, and we forget what makes us human.