Walk into the pale night

"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills"
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)


Why is death such a horrible thing to think of? Last year I had two deaths in my family, and I do not feel any different. I have met people that are almost crippled by the fear of the end coming.

What about my children? My job? Everyone else in the world who has ever met me?
None of these things really matter -- when you pass on people will miss you, they will speak of the good times because we wish to forget the bad. Some will mourn for a long time, others will carry on with life as though nothing has changed.

When I was young I came to a conclusion that they say all warriors do. Today may be the last time I step onto the field of battle. It never really worried me, in some ways I was always prepared. Others do not see it this way. People are amazing creatures, we worry about things that no other animal in the world does.

I am as curious as anyone else about what may be waiting for us in the next world if there so is one. Every civilization has believed something different about what will happen to us in the end, seems the modern day western thinking is you are worm food. Scientifically its true, but what about your spirit? For me I believe long after I have left this mortal plane my spirit will carry on in those that knew me, and those who come to experience what I experienced.

There is no reason to fear death everyone, its an inevitability which we cannot control. Like Marcus Aurelius Antoninus said its natures will.

White Knight,