Philippe Ariès

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

– Philippe Ariès –

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

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Caitlin Doughty

It is never too early to start thinking about your own death and the deaths of those you love. I don’t mean thinking about death in obsessive loops, fretting that your husband has been crushed in a horrific car accident, or that your plane will catch fire and plummet from the sky. But rational interaction, that ends with you realizing that you will survive the worst, whatever the worst may be. Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

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