Montaigne acceptance
Page 279. Montaigne acceptance. The remedy for death is not more life Dash any more than the remedy for despair is hope. Not a half hearted acceptance, but a full and generous one. Acceptance of death, yes, but of life too. Acceptance of positive traits and acceptance of flaw. Montaigne often chastised himself for wasting time. Eventually, he realized how silly that was. We are great fools. He has spent his life in idleness and we say I have done nothing today. What have you not lived.
— from The Landing (Death) · Socrates Express, In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers By Eric Weiner
In the book
In time "don't worry about death" became his most liberating answer to the whole question of how to live — the answer that finally made it possible to do just that: live. His acceptance was never half-hearted; it was a full and generous yes to death, and through it, to life. Ask the morning question. Borrow Jobs's mirror, or our own tradition's habit of taking honest stock at the start and the close of each day, and ask whether the way you are about to spend this day is the way you would want to have spent it. — The Landing (Death)