Everyone of us knows full
Page 21. Everyone of us knows full. Well that if we bring a child into the world that child will one day die. Hopefully, that will be after a long life, but death isn’t it in evitable consequence of life and our parents still choose to bring us into the world.
— from The Landing (Death) · 7 Traits, How to Change Your World
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We begin our approach to the ground from the very day we are born, and yet when we are finally reminded of where we are headed, we react with the same shock a man feels at the doctor's office — I once saw a coffin set out at the front of a synagogue to make exactly that point, and watched a whole room flinch. Every one of us knows full well that a child we bring into the world will one day die; we simply refuse to keep the knowledge in the cockpit with us. [Here, tell them about the moment the gauge first moved for you — the loss, the diagnosis, the waiting room, the phone call — when "someday" suddenly had an edge to it. — The Landing (Death)