There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.
Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
The big change is the proximity to death.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It's part of life. It's part of the every day.
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
