(Oh, how they don't realise!)
Yes, I have dealt with death philosophically. However, not in a way that solves the problem, but in a way that lives with the problem; not through an execution of the answer, but through getting accustomed to the question, becoming civilised to it and refraining from making scenes.
And the aim is to forget about death, because she's not there any moren rather than because you've accepted it sitting next to you, staring. Knowing - or hoping, in more difficult days - that there is a solution to the problem posed by its self-assured, steady eyes is good. But it's not good enough, it's not what our life is about.
The real solution and aim in our life isn't to know the answer to the problem of death, but to make the question die.
And the aim is to forget about death, because she's not there any moren rather than because you've accepted it sitting next to you, staring. Knowing - or hoping, in more difficult days - that there is a solution to the problem posed by its self-assured, steady eyes is good. But it's not good enough, it's not what our life is about.
The real solution and aim in our life isn't to know the answer to the problem of death, but to make the question die.
