Cheating Death or Cheating Ourselves?

While we may gloat when we have a near miss, lauding how we cheated death....we seem to forget eventually Death catches up. No man will live forever to tell his story. So why do we find it hard to accept Death? How often when we see an article about death, we shun it? Recently when I found out my wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, I was devastated, so was my wife. And we still are. Coping is not easy. Trying to be optimistic is even harder. When my wife tells me,"I want to live", my heart weighs a ton. It is beyond me, and I have never felt so helpless in my life. I always felt I have a solution to all problems, but I have none to this.

When Death catches up, everything changes.

So, instead of focusing on cheating death, why not focus on living well? What does living means to you? Do you live for somebody? Or yourself? Do you live the way you wanted or you are living for somebody else? There is no perfect answer for this. You do whatever makes you happy, without causing unhappiness to others.

When Death catches up, I have lived.

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