What's It Like Telling People That They Don't Want to Die?

I suspect that part of our struggle with choices round death stems from how remarkably we've succeeded in modern life in removing death from view. If you go back to traditional societies before hospitals were so prevalent, when infant mortality was high, when women died in childbirth, households had three or four generations under one roof, death just a part of life. And i think by locking death out of daily life, we've turned it into this monstrosity. There's something powerful about participating in the truth with people. Sometimes i do it well and sometimes i don't. But what we sign up for.