Making Room for Death in a Life Well Lived

Making room for death in a life well lived

One of the things I am grateful for in the living of a spiritual life, within or without a specific religious tradition, is having some tools for talking about, honoring and even welcoming death when it comes. Morbid for an…

How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life

The first time I realized I was going to die I was cutting out an obituary for a project for my 6th grade class. I was working on the living room floor, as my father slouched nearby on the brown couch, reading. My eyes suddenly focused in on the age of the dead person in the newspaper—I can’t remember it now—and then something clicked. “This person died,” I told my dad, startled. “I’m going to die someday, too.” I then felt a surge of panic, of …