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You Will Either Lose Your Mind, Your Body or Suddenly Drop Dead
There are no other options…so why are we so happy?
The old expression nobody avoids death or taxes is amusing but untrue.
Some people avoid taxes.
Nobody avoids death.
The oldest woman alive recently died at 117, which may have felt like eternal life, but it wasn’t.
Some people will lose their mind and their body at the same time and might end up in a coma, yet there is still brain activity and their heart still beats.
You would think, with our advanced human consciousness and awareness of our mortality — unlike monkeys, gorillas, and bonobos — we’d be incapacitated with depression, fear, anxiety, and fury over our limited lifespans.
It doesn’t seem fair — or make any philosophical sense — that we only get — at best — 80 or 90'ish years.
That seems ridiculous. You’d think we’d evolve to live at least as long as a turtle if not a thousand years.
Some serotonin or dopamine-based juice flowing through our cerebral vessels allows us to believe at any age — whether we’re 10 or 100 — that we might live forever — despite consciously feeling the aches and pains of our mortality.
