Headline August 26, 2018/ '' 'DEATH* BE DAMNED' ''

'' 'DEATH* BE DAMNED' ''

THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY  - most lovingly and respectfully called !WOW! - in every nook and corner of the world is -

*The exclusive ownership of every single student in the world : ''One Share - Piece - Peace* ''.

All book rights, all film right, all awards, all honors, all innovations, all creations, ''all scholarships''  all opportunities, all voices, all financial assistance, all revenues, all creations, will ever, belong to the students of the world.

All administered by your elected nominees, overseen by an International Committee nominated and voted into office by the students of the world.

IN HER new book ''Natural Causes : An Epidemic of  Wellness, the  Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer,'' Barbara Ehrenreich writes :

''You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it.

Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us.''

I was taken by Ms. Ehrenreich's formulation, this notion that our experience of life, though unique to us, is just a part of broader continuum. Our time here is but a blip, and when we leave, the great world continues to spin.

As, such the appreciation of our own lives has much to do with the ever-increasing awareness of its relative brevity. It is this - an awareness and acceptance of our own mortality - that makes us human.

And it is the impetus, I'd argue, for living our lives to the fullest.

There was a brief period in my own life - less than two years - in which I got married, lost my mother to cancer, had a miscarriage, bought a house and gave birth to a child.

Experiencing all this in so short a time span made me feel almost too human. That barrage of ends and beginnings left me intensely aware of the fragility of life as well as enthralled by the glorious intensity of it:

I lost and simultaneously gained so much. Today this awareness of the temporal nature of it all leaves me determined to seize, observe and interact with the days that remain.

It is the knowledge of how quickly, some times tragically, things can change or disappear that fuel my urgency to be in the present.

As a teenager I remember lamenting how horrible and unfair life was, only to have my parents respond that one couldn't appreciate the good without experiencing the bad. 

Back then, hearing that was annoying; as an adult, it remains annoying, but it is also completely true.

It is rare for us to give much though to the challenges we would face if there was no end to our time on earth.

Would the conditions of our bodies affect the condition of our minds? Would everyone live forever, or just those with the means to afford it?

Could you opt out of eternal life? Would inequality dissolve, or would it become even more of an intractable problem?

Would we still gain the empathy, wisdom and insight that can come with age?

Technological break-throughs can be be life-changing. But I believe that our humanity - our humanness - is inextricably intertwined with the fact of our mortality.

And no scientific fountain of youth can ever cause that to change.

With respectful dedication to *All Yee : The Mortals* :.......

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