Reading Highlight

Those who are physically close to death can remain distant from the subject as well by placing a lifetime of mental content between themselves and their death. They worry about their loved ones, their lack of forgiveness, their remorse and grief, their religious convictions, or the symptoms they may be facing as death approaches. Each mental disturbance keeps them tangential to their death by making these subjects more important than the understanding of death. To abide within death, death must be our central focus, or the wisdom within dying will pass us by; and like many of life’s experiences, we will move through death without any recognition of the depth and profundity it contains.