I hate the idea of death, but find it fascinating.

Is there a concept more powerful or omnipresent in this life?

Its feared and celebrated.  Depressing and liberating.

Death can represent both success and failure.  The best and worst outcome.  The goal. The beginning or the end.

The context is important.  Its one man’s comedy and another’s statistic, source of income or devastation.

Death is the culmination of bad choices, decisions or misinformation.  The result of poor timing and bad luck.  Weak genes.  Unhealthy environments.  Stupidity.  Time.  Inaccurate plans.  An act of mercy or violence.  A lapse in judgement.  An ounce of indecision.  A mistake.  A sacrifice.  A misunderstanding.

A time stamped on a piece of paper or a list of names and faces in the paper.  A short summary of people assumed to love you in life and miss your presence in the future.  A sentence describing the role in society that defined you.  Its a stone representing the range of time you occupied Earth.  Pictures serve as the proof.  Stories of the good times.  Memories are shared, as time passes, less frequently and only a few survive.

Its spiritual. Physical. Emotional. Even Magical.

Death is motivating.  It moves people to do amazing things.  Architecture. Religion. Music & art. Its a driving force in science and medicine. Politics and punishment. Finance and astronomy.

It bends our perception of the world.

Its the focal point and the finish line.

Sometimes its easy to forget, that life is cooler than death.

Advice I should follow:

Always treat other people as if it is their last day on earth.