What a good and thought-provoking post, @nairadaddy !
I remember when Ben (@ironshield) and I were caring for his grandma at the end of her life, there was a point at which we were making a decision to bring her home from the hospital essentially to die. She had a stroke which paralyzed her ability to swallow properly and we knew a feeding tube wasn't an option for her. Several family members were unsettled by the thought of Grandma dying in our house. We found this a little odd but gradually understood it was because we are so separated from death that no one knew quite what to expect and were afraid of the unknowns associated with Grandma dying.
I realized suddenly that the answer to their worries was very simple: "Yes, she will die in our house. But she's going to be living right up until the second she dies. We'll be caring for a living person, not a dead person. And that living person is someone we love."
Our life is like that: as you say, our life is about living and the thought of dying should simply be motivation to keep right on LIVING until the second we must stop.
Thanks so much @lturner for sharing the experience of nurturing a dying grandma. Its in those sort of times that we get the opportunity to think about life and death.
A deep quote full of multiple shades of meanings.
Cheers to living a life that is so cool that death will no longer be a problem.
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